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naqīr (v.n. fr. نقر 'to hollow, excavate,' etc.), s.m. A trough made of a hollowed palm-tree (in which they make a strong wine from dates, etc.);—a canal; trough;—a hollow dug in the ground, or in a stone;—a small groove in a date-stone (from which the stalk grows);—adj. Very small; of little moment; poor and despised, the meanest:—naqīr-o-qit̤mīr, s.m. All the minutiæ, every particle, great and small;—adj. & adv. Minute; particular, exact;—minutely, exactly; to the point.
Origin: Arabic