نَجْرَانٌ
Root: نجر
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نَجْرَانٌ
The piece of wood in which is the foot of a door: or the piece of wood upon which the foot of a door turns: or the foot of a door, upon which it turns: or the دَرْوَنْد [a Persian word signifying a bolt, and a hook,] of a door. [Chald.
נַנְרָא vectis, pessulus: which suggests that the original signification may be that assigned by IAar: but the first and second and third are alone agreeable with the following verse.] AO, cites this ex.:
[I poured water into, or upon, the نجران, so that I made the door to have no creaking].صَبَبْتُ المَآءَ فِى النَّجْرَانِ حَتَّى تَرَكْتُ البَابَ لَيْسَ لَهُ صَرِيرُ
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