Quranic root
نقر
n · q · r
A root centered on striking or pecking something until an impression or sound is produced.
The basic notion extends to pecking, piercing and hollowing, producing sounds, investigating as if probing into a matter, and naming hollows, tools, and instruments associated with these actions.
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
نَقَرَ
naqara
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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To be sounded by striking or blowing in the trumpet, producing the eschatological blast.
Quranically attested in the passive construction فَإِذَا نُقِرَ فِي النَّاقُورِ, referring to the blast sounded in the horn at the Resurrection.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 74:8word 2
“is blown”
نَقِير
naqīr
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
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The tiny hollow or spot on the back of a date stone.
This literal image supplies the basis of the Quranic expression for something vanishingly small.
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The least or most negligible amount; even a tiny speck.
Used in Quranic expressions concerning not giving someone anything or not wronging someone even to the smallest degree.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:53word 10
“(even as much as the) speck on a date seed”
Quran 4:124word 16
“(even as much as) the speck on a date-seed”
نَاقُور
nāqūr
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
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A horn or trumpet blown for the Resurrection.
The Quranic noun denotes the eschatological horn in the expression فِي النَّاقُورِ.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 74:8word 4
“the trumpet”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 4:53نَقِيرًا(even as much as the) speck on a date seed
- 4:124نَقِيرًۭا(even as much as) the speck on a date-seed
- 74:8نُقِرَis blown
- 74:8ٱلنَّاقُورِthe trumpet
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 37 Classical meanings
نَقَرَ
To peck or pick up grain from scattered places, as a bird does with its beak.
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نَقَرَ
To hit the butt or central part of a target with an arrow without the arrow passing through it.
Also used of the archer who makes such a hit.
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نَقَرَ
To pick up food or another thing with the finger.
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نَقَرَ
To strike, peck, or work a stone, millstone, or similar object with a pointed instrument, shaping or roughening it.
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نَقَرَ
To engrave writing on stone.
Often expressed with فِي and the material engraved.
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نَقَرَ
To tap or strike the head, ear, lute, or tambourine with the finger.
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نَقَرَ
To snap the fingers by striking the thumb against a finger and releasing it.
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نَقَرَ بِالدَّابَّةِ
To make a tongue-clicking or smacking sound to urge a horse or other beast forward.
The construction is used with بِ and refers to the characteristic sound made with the tongue against the palate or place of articulation.
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نَقَرَ
To bore, perforate, hollow, or excavate a thing; also, of horses or torrents, to leave hollows in the ground.
May describe either the action of making a cavity or the resulting hollows.
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نَقَرَ عَنِ الأَمْرِ
To investigate, scrutinize, or inquire into a matter or report in order to learn it.
The construction commonly takes عَنْ.
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نَقَّرَ السَّهْمَ
To test an arrow or make it produce a sharp sound by turning it between the fingers or on the thumb.
This is a specialized construction concerning the sonorous quality of an arrow.
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نَقَرَ الرَّجُلَ
To criticize, disparage, or backbite a person.
The use is figurative, as though striking or leaving an impression on the person.
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نَقَرَ الرَّجُلَ
To signal or call to someone with a tongue-clicking sound.
This is a vocal signaling use directed toward a person.
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النَّقْرَى
A selective summons in which some people are invited and others are left out.
The expression describes singling people out for an invitation rather than calling the whole group.
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أَنْقَرَ عَنْهُ
To refrain, desist, leave, or relinquish someone or something.
The construction takes عَنْ; it may describe not leaving someone until he is destroyed.
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نَقْرٌ
A slight sound, especially the snap of the fingers; in a negative expression, anything at all.
The idiom is used in phrases such as not rewarding someone with even a snap of the fingers.
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نَقْرٌ
A slight sound used to set a horse in motion.
This nominal sense refers to the sound made in urging a mount.
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نُقْرَة
A small hollow or depression in the ground, especially one in which water from a torrent remains.
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نُقْرَةُ القَفَا
The hollow at the back of the neck or nape, where the brain ends.
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نُقْرَة
The cavity or socket of the eye.
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نُقْرَة
A bodily foramen or bony socket, including the perforation described in the hip region.
The evidence allows both a general bodily socket and a specifically hip-related foramen.
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نُقْرَة
The place where a bird lays its eggs.
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نَقِير
Something bored, perforated, hollowed, or excavated, especially of stone or wood.
This is a passive-result noun describing a hollowed object.
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نَقِير
A hollowed piece or stump of wood, especially a palm trunk, used as a vessel for preparing fermented beverage; the beverage made in it may also bear the name.
This is the specialized vessel mentioned in traditional reports concerning fermented drink.
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نَقِير
A hollowed palm trunk with step-like footholds by which one ascends to upper chambers.
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نَقِير
Origin, stock, or lineage.
In كَرِيمُ النَّقِيرِ, it describes someone noble in origin, conceived as having been brought out from a probed stock.
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نُقَارَة
The quantity of grain that a bird pecks or picks up.
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نُقَارَة
The material left over from boring or excavating stones.
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نَقَّار
An engraver, especially one who engraves stirrups and bits; also one who bores millstones.
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نَقَّار
A person who investigates, scrutinizes, or examines affairs and reports.
This is the agent noun in the figurative investigative branch.
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نَاقِر
An arrow that hits the butt or eye of a target.
In the plural idiom أَخْطَأَتْ نَوَاقِرُهُ, arrows that formerly hit the mark figuratively express failing to continue in the right course.
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نَاقِرَة
A calamity or blow of fortune.
The plural نَوَاقِرُ is used for calamities.
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نَاقِرَة
A sound argument, decisive evidence, or speech that hits its mark.
The meaning is figurative, based on an arrow striking the target.
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مُنَقَّرُ العَيْنِ
Having sunken or deeply recessed eyes.
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مِنْقَار
The beak of a bird.
The term is distinguished from مِنْسَر, used for the beak of a bird of prey.
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مِنْقَار
The forepart of a camel’s foot.
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مِنْقَار
A slender pointed pick, pickaxe, or chisel used for working stone and hard earth, also used by a carpenter.
The term may also be applied to a tool like a مِعْوَل.
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Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
The Quranic verb occurrence is the passive form نُقِرَ, presented under the normalized Form I dictionary citation نَقَرَ.