mansar مَنْسَر , var. minsar, mansir, pl. manāsirᵘ
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√NSR
band, gang (of robbers, etc.); troop; clique – WehrCowan1979.
▪ From ↗nasr~nisr ‘eagle, vulture’, orig. ‘vanguard of an army’ (Lane viii 1893, Hava1899), so called on account of its marching ahead of the main army, like an eagle’s beak is ‘ahead’ of the bird’s main body. If this etymology is correct, minsar (miFʕaL for n.instr.) may be the more original form, an eagle’s beak being its ‘instrument’ of prey. Given the spatial dimension inherent in marching ‘ahead’, for later users a re-interpretion as a maFʕaL form for n.loc. may have sounded more plausible.
▪ For other items of the same root, cf. ↗nasr~nisr, ↗nasraẗ, ↗minsar, ↗nisrīn, and ↗nāsūr, as well as, for the general picture, ↗√NSR.
http://www2.hf.uio.no/common/apps/permlink/permlink.php?app=polyglotta&context=ctext&uid=da968ce7-06ff-11ee-937a-005056a97067