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▪ NḤR_1 ‘upper part of chest, throat; to slaughter; to hit, kill’ ↗naḥr
▪ NḤR_2 ‘to master one’s affairs’ ↗naḥr
▪ NḤR_3 ^†‘first part, beginning; to perform the prayer in the first part of its time’: see DISC below.
▪ NḤR_4 ^†‘to become opposite, to face, confront’: see DISC below.
▪ NḤR_5 ^†‘to pour down heavily’: see DISC below.

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘chest, the upper part of the chest, the throat, to slaughter; to strive; to pour down heavily’

The many meanings that the root can take in ClassAr may all go back to naḥr ‘upper part of chest, throat’. The root seems to be Sem, but is scarcely attested.

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See ↗naḥr.

▪ Badawi2008 gives thrree values of √NḤR in ClassAr: ‘1. chest, the upper part of the chest, the throat, to slaughter; 2. to strive; 3. to pour down heavily’.
▪ The lexicographers derive all other values from ‘to stab, stuck (a camel)’: NḤR_2 ‘to master one’s affairs’ is explained as *‘to be so experienced as s.o. who when slaughtering a camel, hits it exactly where it ought to be hit’; ^†NḤR_3 ‘first part, beginning; to perform the prayer in the first part of its time’ is another transfer of meaning, either of ‘upper part (of body)’ > ‘beginning (of s.th.)’, or (in the case of the early prayer) of the notion of ‘exactness’, to the field of religious duties; ^†NḤR_4 ‘to become opposite, to face, confront’ is *‘to become abreast of’. The value ^†NḤR_5 ‘to pour down heavily’ (only in vb. VI, tanāḥara, said of a cloud that bursts out with water) is not explained but could be interpreted as figurative use as well: rain pours from the cloud like the blood from an animal whose throat has just been cut.

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naḥr نَحْر , pl. nuḥūr

√NḤR

upper portion of the chest, juncture of chest and neck, throat – WehrCowan1979.

From Sem *naḥ(a)r‑ ‘upper part of the chest’.

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Militarev&Kogan2000 (SED-1)#196: Te näḥar ‘breast’¹ , Jib náḥar ‘windpipe and lungs’. »Scarce but reliable attestation in SSem area.«

1. Regarded as an Arabism by some.

Militarev&Kogan2000 (SED-1)#196: Sem *naḥ(a)r ‘upper part of the chest’.

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► naḥara, u (naḥr), vb. I, to cut the throat (of an animal), slaughter, butcher, kill (an animal): denom.
► tanāḥara, vb. VI, to fight; to kill each other, hack each other to pieces, engage in internecine fighting: denom., recipr.
► ĭntaḥara, vb. VIII, to commit suicide: denom., lit. ‘to cut one’s own throat’.

► naḥr, n., killing, slaughter(ing), butchering: lexicalized vn. of vb. I | yawm al-naḥr Day of Immolation (on the 10th of Ḏū ’l-ḥiǧǧaẗ).
► niḥr and niḥrīr, pl. naḥārīrᵘ, adj., skilled, adept, proficient, versed, experienced (fī in): belonging to the obsolete meaning of vb. I, ^†‘to master (e.g., al-ʔumūr the affairs)’, explained by the classical lexicographers as derived from the original meaning of naḥara, namely ‘to stab (a camel etc.) in its manḥar ’, hence ‘to hit, hurt’ s.o. in exactly the place where he is vulnerable, hence naḥara… ʕilman ‘to master s.th. by knowledge or science’ (cf. Lane 8, 1893).
► naḥīr, adj., killed, slaughtered, butchered: pseudo-PP.
► manḥar, n., throat, neck: n.loc.
► ĭntiḥār, n., suicide: vn. VIII.
► manḥūr, adj., killed, slaughtered, butchered: PP I.
► muntaḥir, adj./n., suicide (person): PA VIII.

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