نَهَار

nahaArN * Day; or day-time; contr. of layolN : (S, TA:) or broad daylight, (Mgh,) from sunrise to sunset: (Mgh, Msb, K:) this is the original signification: (TA;) or this is the signification in the vulgar conventional language: but in the classical language it signifies the time from the rising of the dawn to sunset: (Msb:) or the light between the rising of the dawn and sunset: (K:) and so accord. to the lawyers: (TA:) in the trads., it is the whiteness of the nhAr , and the blackness of the lyl ; and there is nothing intervening between the lyl and the nhAr : but sometimes the Arabs amplified, and applied nhAr to the time from the clear shining of the dawn to the setting [ of the sun ]: (Msb.) or (so accord. to the TA. but in some copies of the K, and the spreading of the light [ which is a cause ] of sight and its dispersion: (K:) in this explanation in the L, in the place of waA@fotiraAquhu we find waA@jotimaAEuhu [and its collecting together ]: (TA:) it is also syn. with yawomN ; and is so when used without restriction in the non-fundamental sciences of religion, ( AlfuruwE ,) as in the phrases Sumo nahaArFA [ fast thou a day ] and A_iEomalo nahaArFA [ work thou a day ]: and it may be so used, or in its proper classical sense, when prefixed to yawom , governing the latter in the gen. case: (Msb:) it has no proper dual, (Mgh, Msb,) and no proper pl., (S, Mgh, Msb, K, (like Ea*aAbN and saraAbN ; (S, K;) the former of which, however, has a pl. assigned to it [by Zj and] in the K, namely, A^aEo*ibapN ; (MF;) [and respecting the latter see $araAbN , with $ ;] [for] nhAr is a name applied to every yawom [or day ]; and layolN , to every layolap [or night]: one does not say nahaArN wanahaAraAni , nor layolN walayolaAni : but the sing. of nhAr is yawomN (TA.) and the dual, yawomaAni , (Msb, TA:) and the pl., A^ay~aAmN . (Msb:) and the contr. of ywomN is layolapN , so says Az, on the authority of AHeyth (TA:) or it has pls.: namely, A^anohurN , (IAar, S, K,) a pl. of pauc., (S,) in some lexicons A^anohirapN , (TA,) also a pl. of pauc.,] and nuhurN , (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) a pl. of mult. (S) [See also naharN .] Ibn-Keysán cites the following ex., lawolaA Alv~ariydaAn lamutonaA biAlD~umuro variydu layolK wavriydN biAln~ahuro [ Were it not for the two thereeds (or messes of crumbled bread moistened with broth ), we had died of leanness: the thereed of night, and thereed in the day-times ]. (S.)