نَثَرَ

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نَثَرَI , Present.T ـُ and ـِ Verbal.Noun نَثْرٌ and نِثَارٌ, or the latter is a simple subst., He scattered a thing, sprinkled it, strewed it, dispersed it, or threw it dispersedly, with his hand; as, for instance, grain, and fruit and the like, walnuts and almonds and sugar, and pearls, &c.; as also نثّر , Verbal.Noun تَنْثِيرٌ; [or the latter is with teshdeed to denote muchness, or frequency, or repetition, of the action; or its application to many objects: see مَنْثُورٌ.]
2 نَثَرَتِ النَّخْلَةُ The palm-tree [scattered or] shook off its unripe dates.
3 وَجَأَهُ فَنَثَرَ أَمْعَآءَهُ He smote him with a knife and scattered his intestines].
4 لَأَنْثُرَنَّكَ نَثْرَ الكَرِشِ [I will assuredly scatter thine intestines like as one scatters the contents of the stomach of a ruminant beast]: said in threatening.
5 نَثَرَ وَلَدًا He had many children born to him. And نَثَرَتِ المَرْأَةُ بَطْنَهَا, and ذَا بَطْنِهَا, and كَرِشَهَا, (A, in art. كرش,) The woman brought forth many children; (T, A, in art. كرش;) scattered children; للزَّوْجِ to the husband.
6 نَتَرَ الكَلَامَ He spoke, or talked, much.
7 نَثَرَ قِرَاءَتَهُ He hastened, or was quick, in his reading, or reciting.
8 نَثَرَ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun نَثِيرٌ, He sneezed [app. so as to scatter the moisture in his nostrils]: or did with his nose what is like sneezing: he sneezed, and expelled what annoyed or hurt him, from his nose: or نَثَرَتْ she ejected from her nose what annoyed or hurt her. And نَثَرَ, Present.T ـِ Verbal.Noun نَثْرٌ [and app. نَثِيرٌ, as above], He [a man] blew his nose; ejected the mucus from his nose; syn. امْتَخَطَ; as also : (S, K, art. مخط:) and he ejected what was in his nose, of mucus, and of that which annoyed or hurt him, in performing the ablution termed وُضُوْء; as also , accord. to some: or signifies he ejected what was in his nose; or he emitted his breath from his nose; or he introduced the water into his nose; as also انتثر and : but this last explanation is outweighed in authority; the form انثر is disallowed by the leading lexicologists; and the author of the K, in respect of this form, follows Sgh, without due consideration: [accord. to the more approved opinion,) نَثَرَ signifies he scattered what was in his nose by the breath; as also انتثر and : or, as some of the learned say, he snuffed up water, and then ejected what was in it, of anything annoying or hurting, or of mucus; as also : or and انتثر , he snuffed up water, and then ejected it by the breath of the nose: accord. to some, نَثَرَ and signify he (a person performing وُضُوْء) snuffed up water: but others say that the latter signifies he ejected what was in his nose, of mucus &c.; agreeably with a trad. to be cited below: IAar says, that signifies he snuffed up water, and put in motion the نَثْرَة, or end of the nose, in purification: and Fr, that نَثَرَ and انتثر and signify he put in motion the نَثْرَة, in purification. It is said of Mohammad, كَانَ يَسْتَنْشِقُ ثَلَاثًا فِى كُلِّ مَرَّةٍ يَسْتَنْثِرُ [He used to snuff up water three times, every time ejecting it; &c.] and this indicates that differs from استنشق. And it is said in a trad., إِذَا ٱسْتَنْشَقْتَ فَٱنْثُرْ, and فَٱنْثِرْ, with the conjunctive ا, and with damm and kesr to the ث, When thou snuffest up water, scatter what is in thy nose by the breath; or eject what is in thy nose, of mucus, &c.: or, as A'Obeyd relates it, ; Verbal.Noun إِنْثَارٌ: or, as he relates it إِذَا تَوَضَّاتَ فَأَنْثِرْ, with the disjunctive ا; and he does not explain it; but the lexicologists do not allow , from الإِنْثَارُ; one only says, نَثَرَ and انتثر and . No instance of used transitively has been heard, except in a trad. of El-Hasan Ibn-'Alee, أَنْفَهُ [He ejected the contents of his nose; or he blew his nose]; as though the root [نَثَرَ] were regarded in it, or as though it were made to import the meaning of نَقَّى.

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