نكس
1 نَكَسَهُ, (
S,
A,
Msb,
K,)
aor. ـُ
inf. n. نَكْسٌ, (
S,
Msb,) He turned it over, or upside down; inverted it; reversed it; changed its manner of being, or state: (
Sh,
Msb: *) he turned it over upon its head: (
S,
A,
K:) and he turned it fore part behind; made the first part of it to be last; or put the first part of it last: (
Sh:) and ↓ نكّسهُ, (
S,
A,
K)
inf. n. تَنْكِيسٌ, (
S,) signifies the same; (
S, *
A,
K;) or has an intensive sense. (
TA.) You say, نُكِسَ السَّهْمُ فِى الكِنَانَةِ The arrow was turned, or put, upside down in the quiver. (
TA.) And it is said in the
Kur, [xxxvi. 68,] وَمَنْ نُعَمِّرْهُ نَنْكُسْهُ فِى الخَلْقِ, or,
accord. to the reading of 'Ásim and Hamzeh, ↓ نُنَكِّسْهُ; meaning, And him whom We cause to live long, We cause him to become in a state the reverse of that in which he was, in constitution; so that after strength, he becomes reduced to weakness; and after youthfulness, to extreme old age. (
TA.)
b2: نَكَسْتُ فُلَانًا فِى ذٰلِكَ الأَمْرِ (assumed
tropical:) I made such a one to enter again into that affair, or state, after he had got out of it. (
ISh.) [Hence the saying in the
Kur, xxi. 66,] ثُمَّ نُكِسُوا عَلَى رُؤُوسِهِمْ (assumed
tropical:) Then they were made to return to their disbelief: (
Jel:) or (
tropical:) then they reverted to disputation, after they had taken the right course by means of consulting together; their return to falsity being likened to a thing's becoming upside down: and there are two other readings; ↓ نُكِّسُوا, and نَكَسُوا; the latter meaning نَكَسُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ: (
Bd;) or (assumed
tropical:) then they reverted from what they knew, of the evidence in favour of Abraham. (
Fr.)
b3: [And hence,] نَكَسَهُ, and نَكَسَهُ إِلَى مَرَضِهِ, (
tropical:) It made him to fall back into his disease.] (
TA, in art. هيض.) And نُكِسَ, (
S,
Msb,
K,) or نُكِسَ فِى مَرَضِهِ, (
A,
TA,)
inf. n. نُكْسٌ (
S,
Msb,
K) and نَكْسٌ (
TA, [but see what is said of this below]) and نُكَاسٌ, (
Sh,
K,) (
tropical:) He relapsed into his disease, after convalescence, or after recovery, but not complete, of health and strength: (
S,
A,
K:) or the disease returned to him; [he relapsed into the disease;] as though he were made to turn back to it. (
Msb.) Yousay, أَكَلَ كَذَا فَنُكِسَ (
tropical:) [He ate such a thing, and relapsed into his disease]. (
A,
TA.) and تَعْسًا لَهُ وَنُكْسًا, and sometimes one says, نَكْسًا, (
S,
K,) in this case, (
S,) for the sake of mutual resemblance, (
S,
K,) or because نَكْسًا is a dial form [of نُكْسًا], (
S,) [meaning, (assumed
tropical:) May he fall upon his face, or the like, (see art. تعس,) and relapse into disease: or] may he fall upon his face, and not rise after his fall until he fall a second time: and in like manner you say, ↓ تَعَسَ وَانْتَكَسَ. (
Msb, art. تعس.) [See also 8.] You say also, نُكِسَ الجُرْحُ (assumed
tropical:) [The wound broke open again; or became recrudescent]. (
S, in arts. عرب and حبط, &c.)
b4: And نَكَسَ الطَّعَامُ وَغَيْرُهُ دَآءَ المَرِيضِ (
tropical:) The food, &c., made the disease of the sick man to return. (
K.) And نَكَسَ الخِضَابَ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ (
tropical:) He put the dye upon his head repeatedly, or several times. (
A,
TA. *)
b5: Also نَكَسَ [or more probably نُكِسَ] (assumed
tropical:) He (a man) became weak and impotent. (
Sh, in
TA.) And نُكِسَ عَنْ نُظَرَائِهِ, like عُنِىَ, (assumed
tropical:) He fell short of his fellows; was unable to attain to them. (
TA.)
b6: نَكَسَ رَأْسَهُ, and ↓ نكّسهُ, (
TA,) [and نَكَسَ alone, (see نَاكِسٌ,)] and ↓ نكّس, (
L,
TA, art. بقر,) and ↓ انتكس, (
TA,) [and in like manner ↓ تنكّس, said of a flower-stalk in the
M and
K,
voce قِشْبٌ,] He bent, or inclined, his head; (
TA;) he lowered, or stooped, his head; bent, or hung, it down towards the ground; absolutely; or by reason of abasement. (So
accord. to explanations of the
act. part. n., below.) 2 نَكَّسَ see 1, throughout.
5 تَنَكَّسَ see 1, last sentence.
8 انتكس quasi-
pass. of نَكَسَهُ; (
S,
A,
TA;) [and therefore signifying It became turned over, or upside down; became turned over upon its head; became inverted; became reversed; became changed in its manner of being, or state; it became turned fore part behind; its first part was made to be last, or was put last:] he fell upon his head. (
K.) This last signification [understood figuratively] it is said to have in the phrase تَعَسَ وَانْتَكَسَ, a form of imprecation, meaning, (assumed
tropical:) May he be disappointed, or fail, of attaining his desire: for he who is overthrown in his affair (مَن انْتَكَسَ فِى
أَمْرِهِ) is disappointed of attaining his desire, and suffers loss. (
TA.) [See also 1, where this form of imprecation is differently explained.]
b2: Also,
i. q. نَكَّسَ رَأَسَهُ. (
TA.) [See 1, last signification.]
نِكْسٌ An arrow having its notch broken, and its top therefore made its bottom: (
S,
A,
K:)
pl. [of pauc.] أَنْكَاسٌ (
A,
TA) and [of mult.]
نُكُسٌ. (
A.)
b2: A head, or blade, of an arrow &c., having its tongue (سِنْخ) broken, and its point therefore made its tongue: (
K:)
pl. أَنْكَاسٌ. (
TA.)
b3: A bow of which the foot is made [of] the head of the branch; as also ↓ مَنْكُوسَةٌ. This peculiarity is a fault. (
K.)
b4: A child such as is termed يَتْنٌ [born preposterously, feet foremost; but يَتْنٌ is an
inf. n., and I have not found it used as an
epithet anywhere but in this instance]; (
K;)
i. q. مَنْكُوسٌ; and mentioned by
IDrd; but he says that it is not of established authority. (
TA.)
b5: (
tropical:) Low, or ignoble; base; vile; mean, or sordid: See a verse cited
voce أَشَّعَلَ: (
A:) (
tropical:) one who falls short of the utmost point of generosity; (
K;) or of courage and generosity: (
TA:) (assumed
tropical:) weak; (
S,
K;) applied to a man: (
S:) (assumed
tropical:) short: (
AHn:)
pl. أَنْكَاسٌ. (
A,
K.)
b6: See also مُنَكِّسٌ:
b7: and نُكُسٌ.
نُكَسٌ, [
app. pl. of نِكْسٌ,] (assumed
tropical:) Old men tottering by reason of age (مُدْرَهِمُّونَ) after attaining to extreme old age. (
K.) نَاكِسٌ Lowering his head; bending, or hanging, down his head towards the ground; [absolutely;] (
S,
K;) [or] by reason of abasement: (
TA:)
pl. [properly نَاكِسُونَ; (see
Kur, xxxii.
12;) and sometimes] نَوَاكِسُ, (
S,
K,) used [only] in poetry, (
S,
TA,) by reason of necessity, (
TA,) and
anomalous, (
S,
K,) like فَوَارِسُ. (
S.) ElFarezdak says, وَإِذَا الرِّجَالُ رَأَوْا يَزِيدَ رَأَيْتَهُم خُضُعَ الرِّقَابِ نَوَاكِسَ الأَبْصَارِ [And when the men see Yezeed, thou seest them depressed in the necks, lowering the eyes]: (
S:) thus the verse is related by
Fr and
Ks:
Akh says, that it is allowable to say نَوَاكِسِ الأَبْصَارِ, after the manner of the phrase حُجْرُ ضَبٍّ خَرِبٍ; [see art. خرب;] and Ahmad Ibn-Yahyà adds
ى in relating it; saying نَوَاكِسِى الأَبْصَارِ. (
TA.) [See the remarks on فَوَارِسُ,
pl. of فَارِسٌ.]
مُنَكِّسٌ A horse that does not raise, or elevate, his head, (
S,
IF,
K,) nor his neck, when running, by reason of weakness: (
IF,
K:) or that has not reached the other horses (
Lth,
K) in their heat, or single run to a goal; (
Lth;) i. e., by reason of his weakness and impotence; as also ↓ نِكْسٌ. (
TA.) وَلَدٌ مَنْكُوسٌ A child [preposterously brought forth; whose feet come forth before his head. (
A,
Msb, and so in a copy of the
S.) See also نِكْسٌ.
b2: وِلَادٌ مَنْكُوسٌ [Preposterous childbirth] is when the feet come forth before the head; (
K, and so in a copy of the
S, [and that this is what was meant by the author of the
S seems to be indicated by what immediately follows])
i. q. يَتْنُ. (
S.)
b3: طَوَافٌ مَنْكُوسٌ A circuiting of the Kaabeh performed in a way contrary to the prescribed custom, by saluting the black stone and then going towards the left. (
Mgh.)
b4: قَرَأَ القُرَآنَ مَنْكُوسًا He read or recited, the
Kur-án, beginning from the last part thereof, (
K,) i. e. from [the commencement of the latter of] the مُعَوِّذَتَانِ [or last two chapters], (
TA,) and ending with the فَاتِحَة [or first chapter]; contrary to the prescribed mode: (
TA:) or beginning from the end of the chapter, and reading it, or reciting it, to its beginning, invertedly; (
K;) a mode which A 'Obeyd thinks impossible; and therefore he holds the former explanation to be the right: (
TA:) each of these practices is disapproved, excepting the former in teaching children, [in which case it is generally adopted in the present day,] (
K,) and [in teaching] the foreigner the [portion of the
Kur-án called the] مُفَصَّل; an indulgence being granted to these two only because the long chapters are difficult to them: but if any one knows the
Kur-án by heart, and intentionally recite it from the last part thereof to the first, this is forbidden: and if we disapprove this, still more is the reciting from the end of the chapter to the beginning disapproved, if the doing this be possible. (
TA.)
b5: مَنْكُوسٌ also signifies (
tropical:) Suffering a relapse into disease, after convalescence; or after recovery, but not complete, of health and strength. (
K.)
b6: مَنْكُوسَةٌ applied to a bow: see نِكْسٌ.
