نُغَرٌ

Certain birds like sparrows, (S,) or a species of sparrows, (Msb,) with red beaks: (S, Msb:) n. un. with ة: (S:) or the young ones of sparrows: (K:) n. un. as above: (TA:) or the young ones of the sparrows; (Sh, Msb;) which you always see in a lean state: (Sh:) or [a species] of young sparrows: (TA:) or the bird called بُلْبُل: (Msb, K:) it is said that the people of El-Medeeneh call the بُلْبُل by the names of نُغَرٌ and حُمَّرَةٌ; and it is said to resemble the sparrow; and the feminine is with ة: (Msb:) or (TA; in the K, and) a species of the حُمَّر, (K, TA; in the CK, erroneously, حُمُر;) red in the beaks and in the lower parts of the أَحْنَاك [or portions beneath the beaks]: (TA:) or the males thereof: (K:) plural نِغْرَانٌ, (S, Msb, K,) like as صِرْدَانٌ is plural of صُرَدٌ. (S, Msb.) Its diminutive is نُغَيْرٌ (S, Msb, K) occurring in a tradition; يَا أَبَا عُمَيْرْ مَا فَعَلَ النُّغَيْرْ [O Aboo-'Omeyr, what did the little nughar?]; (S, K;) said by Mohammad to a little child of Aboo-Talhah El-Ansáree, who had a bird, or birds, of this name, which died. (TA.)