نَذِيرٌ
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i. q.
مُنْذِرٌ, (T, S, M, A, Msb, K,) as also
نَذِيرَةٌ; (M;) i. e. [One who gives information, or advice, of a thing, or things: and one who warns;] one who cautions; (M, TA;) and who puts in fear: (TA:) one who gives notice to a people of an enemy, or other thing, that has come upon them; (TA;) a spy who gives notice, to a people, of an enemy, to put them on their guard; (A;) and in like manner
نَذِيرَةٌ, a spy who informs an army of the state of the enemy: (T, K:) نَذِيرٌ is of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مُفْعِلٌ: (M, L:) or its verb was نَذَرَ, but this has become obsolete: (T:) its plural is نُذُرٌ; (M, Msb, K;) occurring in the Qur'an, 54:23, [&c.]. (TA.)
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[Hence,] ابو مُنْذِرٍ
The cock (Har. p. 644).
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[And also,] النَّذِيرُ
The apostle: (M, K:) so in the Qur'an, 35:34, according to Th: (M:) the prophet Mohammad: (T, K:) so, according to most of the expositors, in that verse of the Qur'an. (T.)
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Hoariness, or whiteness of the hair: (T, M, K:) so, according to some, in the verse of the Qur'an, last referred to: (T, M:) but the explanation immediately preceding is more probable. (T.)
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See also نُذْرٌ.