(ن ك س) : (الطَّوَافُ الْمَنْكُوسُ) أَنْ يَسْتَلِمَ الْحَجَرَ الْأَسْوَدَ ثُمَّ يَأْخُذَ عَنْ يَسَارِهِ سُمِّيَ بِذَلِكَ لِأَنَّهُ (نُكِسَ) أَيْ قُلِبَ عَمَّا هُوَ السُّنَّةُ.
Entries on نكس in 18 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Muḥammad al-Fattinī, Majmaʿ Biḥār al-Anwār fī Gharāʾib al-Tanzīl wa Laṭāʾif al-Akhbār, Abū Mūsā al-Madīnī, al-Majmūʿ al-Mughīth fī Gharībay al-Qurʾān wa-l-Ḥadīth, Habib Anthony Salmone, An Advanced Learner's Arabic-English Dictionary, and 15 more
