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نَاْحَرَ see 1, near the end.

تَنَاحَرُوا فِى القِتَالِ (S, TA) They stabbed one another in the نَحْر , or slew one another, in fight. Here the verb is used in its proper sense. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] تَنَاحَرَ القَوْمُ عَلَى الأَمْرِ , (A, K,) and عَلَيْهِ ↓ انتحروا , (S, A, K,) (tropical:) The people were mutually niggardly, or tenacious, or avaricious, of the thing, (S, A, K,) so that they almost slew one another. (K, * TA.) -A2- الدَّارَانِ تَتَنَاحَرَانِ (tropical:) The two houses face, or front, each other. (K.) [The like is also said in the A.] Fr. says, I have heard some of the Arabs say مَنَازِلُهُمْ تَنَاحَرُ , [for تَتَنَاحَرُ ,] (tropical:) Their places of abode face, or front, one another; this is opposite to this. (TA.)

انتحر He (a man, S) stabbed himself in the نَحْر , (S,) or slew himself. (K.) It is said in a proverb, سُرِقَ السَّارِقُ فَا@نْتَحَرَ [The robber was robbed, and in consequence slew himself]: (S:) or سَرَقَ السَّارِقُ فَا@نْتَحَرَ [app. meaning, (tropical:) The robber robbed, and so occasioned his own slaughter: for it is said that the verb is here used tropically]. (TA; and so in a copy of the S, and of the A.) [The former reading, which I prefer, is given in Freytag's Arab. Prov, q. v., vol. i. p. 618.] ― -b2- (tropical:) It (a cloud) burst with much water. (A.) -A2- See also 6.

النَّحْرُ , (S, Msb,) or نَحْرُ الصَّدْرِ , (A, K,) The uppermost part of the breast, or chest; (A, K;) as also ↓ المُنْحُورُ : (Sb, IB, K:) or the place of the collar or necklace: (A, K:) or that part of the breast or chest which is the place of the collar or necklace; (S, Msb;) so accord. to A'Obeyd: (TA, art. ترب :) which is also called ↓ المَنْحَرُ : (S:) or the breast or bosom or chest itself: (TA:) or النُّحُورُ , the pl., is also applied to the breasts or chests: (Msb:) and النَّحْرُ , (A,) or ↓ المَنْحَرُ , (S, A, Msb, K, TA,) also signifies the part in which a camel is stabbed, or stuck; (A, TA; where the windpipe ( حُلْقُوم ) commences, in the uppermost part of the breast: (TA:) or the place where the هَدْى [or animal brought as an offering to Mekkeh or to the Kaabeh or to the Haram, such as a camel, cow, bull, sheep, or goat, to be sacrificed,] &c., is stabbed, or stuck: (S, K:) or the place, in the throat, where a beast is stabbed, or stuck: (Msb:) نَحْرٌ is masc., (Lh, K,) only: (Lh:) [or sometimes fem.: see an ex., voce تَرِبَ :] its pl. is نُحُورٌ , (A, Msb, K,) only: (TA:) and the pl. of ↓ مَنْحَرٌ is مَنَاحِرُ . (A.) -A2- نَحْرٌ also signifies (tropical:) The first, the first part, or the commencement, of the day; (S, K;) and of the month, (K,) as also ↓ نَاحِرٌ ; (TA;) and of the ظَهِيرَة , which is when the sun has reached its highest point, [especially in summer,] as though it had reached the نَحْرٌ , as also ↓ نَاحِرَةٌ : (TA:) pl. نُحُورٌ . (K.) You say جَا=ءَ فِى نَحْرِ النَّهَارِ , &c., (tropical:) He came in the first part of the day, &c. (TA.) See also نَحِيرَةٌ . -A3- Also, قَعَدَ فُلَانٌ فِى نَحْرِ فُلَانٍ (tropical:) Such a one sat in front of such a one; facing him; opposite to him. (A.) And صَارَ فِى نَحْرِهِ [(tropical:) He, or it, became in front of, or opposite to, him, or it]. (S.) And هٰذَا بِنَحْرِ هٰذَا (tropical:) This is in front of, facing, or opposite to, this. (Fr, TA.)

نِحْرٌ : see نِحْرِيرٌ .

لَقِيتُهُ صَحْرَةً بَحْرَةً نَحْرَةً , with tenween, (assumed tropical:) I met him in open view. (Sgh, K.) See بَحْرَة and صَحْرَة .

نِحْرِيرٌ (S, A, K) and ↓ نِحْرٌ (K) (tropical:) Soundly, or thoroughly, learned; (S;) or skilled or skilful, intelligent, experienced, (A, K, TA,) or, as some say, (TA,) sound in what he does, skilful and intelligent, knowing and skilful in everything: because he masters ( يَنْحَرُ ) knowledge or science: (A, K, TA:) pl. of the former, نَحَارِيرُ . (A.)

نَحِيرٌ A camel [or other beast] stabbed, or stuck, (K. TA,) in the مَنْحَر , (TA,) where the windpipe ( حُلْقُوم ) commences, in the uppermost part of the breast; (K, TA;) and ↓ مَنْحُورٌ signifies [the same: and] slaughtered: (TA:) the former is masc. and fem., and the fem. is also نَحِيرَةٌ : (TA:) pl. of نحير , (K,) and of نحيرة , (TA,) نَحْرَى and نُحَرَا=ءُ and نَحَايءِرُ . (K, TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) A son devoted to be sacrificed: of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ . (Mgh.) -A2- ↓ النَّحِيرَةُ (tropical:) The first day of the month; [as also, app., الشَّهْرِ ↓ نَحْرُ , and ↓ نَاحِرَتُهُ , and ↓ نَحِيرَتُهُ :] or the last thereof; (K;) as also ↓ النَّاحِرُ : (TA:) or the last night thereof; (S, K;) as also النَّحِيرٌ : (K:) or the last night thereof with its day [i. e. the day immediately following]; as also ↓ النَّاحِرَةُ ; because it becomes opposite to that which is next after it, or because it reaches to the first part thereof [or of the following month]: (Abu-l-Gheyth, S:) pl. نَوَاحِرُ (S, K) and نَاحِرَاتٌ , (K,) both extr. [as pls. of نَحِيرَةٌ , but reg. as pls. of نَاحِرَةٌ ], (TA,) [and app. نَحَايءِرُ , being agreeable with rule as pl. of نَحِيرَةٌ : or] نَحَايءِرُ الشَّهْرِ signifies i. q. نُحُورُهُ : see نَحْرٌ . (TA.) You say also جَا=ءَ فِى نَحْرِ الشَّهْرِ , and نَاحِرَتِهِ , and نَحِيرَتِهِ , (tropical:) [app. signifying He came on the first day of the month.] And مَا أَرَاهُ اـِلَّا فِى نُحُورِ الشُّهُورِ , and نَوَاحِرِهَا , and نَحَايءِرِهَا , (tropical:) [app., I see him not save on the first days of the months.] (A.)

نَحِيرَةٌ : see نَحِيرٌ .

نَحَّارٌ : see مِنْحَارٌ .

نَاحرٌ and نَاحِرَةٌ : see نَحْرٌ and نَحِيرٌ . -A2- نَوَاحِرُ الأَرْضِ , [pl. of نَاحِرَةٌ ,] (tropical:) The parts facing, in front of, or opposite to, the earth or land. (TA.)

المَنْحَرُ : see النَّحْرُ , in two places.

مِنْحَارٌ an intensive epithet applied to a man, [A great slaughterer of camels; as also ↓ نَحَّارٌ :] and signifying (assumed tropical:) Liberal; bountiful; munificent; or generous. (S, TA.) You say اـِنَّهُ لَمِنْحَارُ بَوَايءِكِهَا Verily he is a [great] slaughterer of the fat camels: (S, K:) and هُمْ نَحَّارُونَ لِلْجُزُرِ [They are great slaughterers of camels]. (A.)

مَنْحُورٌ : see نَحِيرٌ . -A2- (tropical:) Faced, or fronted. (TA.)

المُنْخُورُ : see النَّحْرُ .