minsar مِنْسَر , pl. manāsirᵘ
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√NSR
beak (of predatory birds) – WehrCowan1979.
▪ The n. is a miFʕaL formation for n.instr., from obs. vb. I, †nasara *‘to pluck (with the beak) pieces of flesh from the body of a prey’ (Lane viii 1893; cf. also Hava1899: ‘to take off s.th.; to scrape, rub out s.th.’), from ↗nasr~nisr ‘eagle, vulture’.
▪ For other items of the same root, cf. ↗nasr~nisr, ↗nasraẗ, ↗mansar, ↗nisrīn, and ↗nāsūr, as well as, for the general picture, ↗√NSR.
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