نذر

Muḍāriʿ نَذِرَ and نَذُرَ; maṣdar نَذْرٌ and نُذُورٌ. The vow may be either absolute or conditional, as explained below.

The same as نَذَرَ.

[and نَذِرَ, as implied in the K].

Muḍāriʿ نَذُرَ and نَذِرَ.

That is, some religious service, or an alms, and the like.

Or نَذْرٌ means promising conditionally, as when one says, "Such a thing shall be obligatory on me if God restores my sick [son or other] to health": this is called نَذْرٌ, but the saying "I impose on myself the giving of a dīnār as alms" is not so called.

The child is appointed to be a minister or servant of the church, or of a place set apart for religious services, exercises, or acts of devotion: so in the Qur'ān 3:31.

on this sense Doing this is repeatedly forbidden in the traditions; but what is meant is doing it in the belief that one may gain by it something God has not decreed to happen, or turn away from oneself something decreed to befall one. Even so, if a man does it, fulfilment is obligatory on him.

maṣdar نَذَرٌ and نَذَارَةٌ and نِذَارَةٌ. Some assert that it has no maṣdar, like عَسَى and the like, the Arabs being content to use أَنْ followed by the verb instead, as is said in the 'Ināyeh, on the Qur'ān chapter 14.

Said in a tradition.

Maṣdar إِنْذَارٌ and نُذْرٌ, the latter according to Kr, though it is really a simple noun; and نُذُرٌ, or this is the plural of نَذِيرٌ; and نَذْرٌ according to Lh and Kr, [though this is properly a simple noun,] and نَذِيرٌ according to Zj, or Ez-Zejjājee, though this too is better regarded as a simple noun.

This is the primary meaning. It also means: I warned him of the thing; I cautioned him, or put him on his guard, against it, and put him in fear in what I told him — in this sense the verb is used in the Qur'ān 40:18. Or: I announced the thing to him, generally, or only, where the person addressed is put in fear or frightened; and the verb is used in this sense in the same place of the Qur'ān.

Meaning, put them in fear of its punishment.

In the copies of the K, نَذَرَهُ, but this is a mistake.

أَنْذَرْتُ القَوْمَ بِالعَدُوِّ and أَنْذَرْتُهُمُ العَدُوَّ have the same meaning.

Said in a proverb: the man who has warned you that he will punish you for a future evil deed of yours is excused, if you then do the evil deed and he punishes you.

See also أَعْذَرَ, in two places; and see عُذْرٌ.

En-Nābighah says, describing a serpent, and his being threatened by En-Noʿmān so that he passed the night as though he had been stung, turning over and over upon his bed:

[Of which the charmers have warned one another, and put one another in fear, on account of the evil nature of its poison, which it discharges one time and one time draws back].

The people warned, or cautioned, one another, or put one another in fear, of a terrifying evil.

See نَذَرَ, in two places.

He offered warning to him; so in the article عذر.

See استعذر.

A vow, which a man makes binding, or obligatory, on himself; [either absolutely, or conditionally: ]

Plural نُذُورٌ. In the following verse of Ibn-Aḥmar, some say that نُذُر is the plural of نَذْرٌ, as رُهُنٌ is the plural of رَهْنٌ, while others say it is the plural of نَذِيرٌ in the sense of مَنْذُورٌ:

[How many a waterless desert glistening with the mirage, in which vows, or things vowed, are vowed, lie in the way to Leylà!]

See also نُذْرٌ.

This, and نُذُرٌ, [and نَذْرٌ (see Form 4),] and نَذِيرٌ, and نَذِيرَةٌ, and نِذَارَةٌ (Esh-Shāfiʿī), and نُذْرَى are nouns in the sense of إِنْذَارٌ: an informing, or advising, of a thing; and a warning, or cautioning, and putting one on his guard against a thing, and putting one in fear of it (see Form 4). Or: a putting one in fear in announcing a thing.

عُذْرًا أَوْ نُذْرًا and عُذُرًا أَوْ نُذُرًا, according to different readings, in the Qur'ān 77:6, are put in the accusative as causal complements, with this meaning. [See also the article عذر.]

In the same way نُذُرِ, in the Qur'ān 54:16 and elsewhere, means إِنْذَارِى; and so does نَذِيرِ in the Qur'ān 67:17.

That is, أَعْذِرُ وَلَا تُنْذِرْ.

See نُذْرٌ.

See نُذْرٌ.

نَذِيرَةٌ has the same meaning.

One who gives notice to a people of an enemy, or of anything else, that has come upon them; a spy who gives notice to a people of an enemy, to put them on their guard.

نَذِيرٌ is of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مُفْعِلٌ; or its verb was نَذَرَ, but this has become obsolete. Its plural is نُذُرٌ, which occurs in the Qur'ān 54:23.

Plural نُذُرٌ. See نَذْرٌ.

See also نُذْرٌ.

See نُذْرٌ.

[A votive gift;] that which the man who makes a vow gives.

See also نَذِيرٌ, in two places.

And see نُذْرٌ.

See مُنَذِّرٌ.

See نَذِيرٌ.

See نَذِيرٌ.

Given in the T, under the article زنر.

[A thing of which people warn, or caution, one another, or of which they put one another in fear;] applied to a disease and the like.

Mentioned under the article خبر, at the word خَيْبَرَى.