conc▪ Acc. to BAH2008 a borrowing, said to be from Pers, Hbr or undetermined origin, occurring twice in the Qur’an. Some Arab philologists link it to either ↗nūr or ↗nār while Ibn ʕAbbās describes it as common to all languages; variously rendered by the commentators as: ‘oven/furnace; spring; surface of the ground’.
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