نَقِير

naqiyrN * : see naqorN , in three places. -A2- What is bored, or perforated; and what is hollowed out, or excavated; ( maA nuqiba , TA, and maA nuqira , K, TA;) of stone, and of wood, and the like. (K, TA.) ― -b2- A piece of wood, (Msb,) or a block of wood, ( A^aSolu xa$abapK , S, K,) or a stump, or the lower part, ( A^aSol ,) of a palm-tree, (T,) which is hollowed out, and in which the beverage called nabiy* is made; (T, S, Msb, K;) the nby* whereof becomes strong: (S, K:) or a stump, or the lower part, ( ASl ,) of a palm-tree, which it was a custom of the people of El-Yemámeh to hollow out, then they crushed in it ripe dates and unripe dates, which [ with water poured upon them ] they left until fermentation had taken place therein and subsided: (A 'Obeyd:) or a stump, or the lower part, ( ASl ,) of a palm-tree, whereof the middle was hollowed out, then dates were put in them, with water, which became intoxicating nby* : (IAth:) the word is of the measure faEiylN in the sense of the measure mafoEuwlN . (Msb.) It is said in a trad., that Mohammad forbade Aln~aqiyr , (S, * Msb, * TA,) meaning, the nby* thereof. (TA.) ― -b3- A trunk of a palm-tree, hollowed out, and having the like of steps made in it, by which one ascends to gurf [or upper chambers ]. (K. [See also EajalapN .]) ― -b4- See also nuqorapN , throughout.