نَقْرٌ

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نَقْرٌ A slight sound that is heard in consequence of striking the thumb against the middle finger [and then letting them fly apart in opposite directions, passing each other]: [or the snapping with the fingers or with the thumb and middle finger, or with the thumb and first finger; as also : n. an. of the former with ة.] One says, مَا أَثَابَهُ نَقْرَةٌ [He did not reward him with even a snap of the fingers;] meaning, with anything: (S, K [in the former of which it is implied that نقرة thus used is from نَقْرٌ in the first of the senses explained above;]) not used thus save in [a negative phrase. A poet says, وَهُنّ حَرَى أَلَّا يُثِبْنَكَ نقْرَةٌ وَأَنْتَ حَرُى بِالنَّار حِينَ تُثِيبُ [And they are fit, or worthy, not to reward thee with anything, and thou art fit for, or worthy of, the fire of hell when thou rewardest]. Or the right reading in both these instances is , with damm. [See نُقْرَةٌ.] One says also, لَمْ يَكْتَرِتْ لِى بِقَدُر نَقْرَة إِصْبَعٍ [He did not care for me so much as a snap of a finger]. [See also an ex. in a verse cited in the first paragraph of art. شأو.] I'Ab, in explanation of the words of the Kur, [iv. 123,] وَلَا يُظْلَمُونَ نَقِيرًا, put the end of the thumb against the inner side of his first finger, then made a snapping with it (ثُمَّ نَقَرَهَا), and said, This is what is termed نَقِيرٌ ; [denoting the lit. meaning to be And they shall not be wronged a snap of the fingers.] But see نُقْرَةٌ, below.
2 Also, A sound, or slight sound, by which a horse is put in motion: as also نَقِيرٌ : or the former has one or other of the different significations assigned to it above, in the explanations under the head of نَقَرَ بِالدَّابَّةِ.

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