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فقر

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

فَاقِرَةٌ ذ [ An act that breaks, or will break, the vertebræ of the back: and hence,] (assumed tropical:) a calamity, or misfortune; (S, O, K;) as also ↓ فَيْقَرٌ: (S, O, K:) or, accord. to Lth and others, such as breaks the vertebræ of the back: (TA:) pl. فَوَاقِرُ. (Har p. 399.) عَمِلَ بِهِ الفَاقِرَةَ is a prov., meaning He did to him an act breaking, or that would break, his vertebræ; or a calamity, or misfortune, as in the Kur lxxv. 25: (Meyd:) [or, accord. to J, it app. means he did to him that which would render him tractable; for he says,] it is from the phrase فَقَرْتُ أَنْفَ البَعِيرِ. (S. [This phrase in the S has been strangely misunderstood by Golius; who has consequently, after mentioning the meaning “ infortunium, ” added “ et Habena seu capistrum, de quo in Conj. 1. ”]) ― -b2- And [hence] الفَاقِرَةُ signifies (assumed tropical:) The resurrection. (TA.)

Derived headwords

فَاقِرَةٌ
  1. 1.
عَمِلَ بِهِ الفَاقِرَةَ
فَقَرْتُ أَنْفَ البَعِيرِ