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▪ Perh. a loanword (from Pers, or Syr?; cf. var. writing with ṣ: nāṣūr, pl. nawāṣīrᵘ), but ultimately perh. akin to ↗nasr~nisr ‘eagle, vulture’, a tumor that breaks up being likened to the wound caused by an eagle’s beak (?).

hist

▪ Lane viii 1893: ‘a certain disease that happens in the inner angles of the eyes (Ṣ, Mṣb, Q), with an incessant defluxion therefrom (Ṣ, TA) and sometimes it happens also in the part around the anus, and in the gum (Ṣ, Mṣb), or it signifies also a certain disease in the part around the anus, and a certain disease in the gum; nawāṣīr, pl. of nāṣūr: accord. to certain of the physicians, is a term applied to deep ulcers in the anus, at the extremity of the gut; – also: a vein constantly becoming recrudescent, with an incessant defluxion, corrupt within, whenever its upper part heals breaking forth again with corruption’.

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▪ Lane viii 1893: according to some ClassAr lexicographers, the word is Arabized from a Pers source.
▪ Ḍinnāwī2004: from Pers, or perh. from Syr nocouro (=?).

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deriv

▪ For other items of the same root, cf. ↗nasr~nisr, ↗nasraẗ, ↗minsar,↗mansar, and ↗nisrīn, as well as, for the general picture, ↗√NSR.

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