► 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.