Bibliotheca Polyglotta

▪ From protSem *n˅šr ~ n˅sr ‘eagle, vulture’ – MilitarevKogan2005#166.
▪ For the relation of the derivatives to ‘eagle’, see below (section DERIV) and individually, s.v..

hist

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cogn

▪ Bergsträsser1928: (*‘eagle, vulture’) Akk našru, Hbr néšer, Syr nešrā, Gz nesr.

disc

See above, section CONC.

west

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deriv

►tanassara, vb. V, 1to get torn; 2 to break, snap: Dt-stem, quasi-pass. (1), intr. (2), orig. likened to an eagle’s plucking flesh from its prey with its beak.
►ĭstansara, vb. X, to become eagle‑like, act like an eagle: *Št-stem

►nasraẗ, n.f., small piece, chip, splint: orig. prob. *‘piece of flesh that an eagle tears out of its prey with its beak’.
►nusāriyyaẗ, n.f., eagle
►nāsūr, pl. nawāsīrᵘ, n., fistula, tumor: perh. a loanword (from Pers, or Syr?; cf. var. writing with ṣ: nāṣūr), but perh. akin to nasr , a tumor that breaks up being likened to the wound caused by an eagle’s beak.
►mansar, var. minsar, mansir, pl. manāsirᵘ, n., band, gang (of robbers, etc.); troop; clique: 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.
►minsar, pl. manāsirᵘ, n., beak (of predatory birds): 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.’).

▪ For other items of the same root, cf. ↗nisrīn, as well as, for the general picture, ↗√NSR.

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