Entries on نكص in 14 Arabic dictionaries by the authors Muḥammad al-Fattinī, Majmaʿ Biḥār al-Anwār fī Gharāʾib al-Tanzīl wa Laṭāʾif al-Akhbār, Murtaḍa al-Zabīdī, Tāj al-ʿArūs fī Jawāhir al-Qamūs, Ismāʿīl bin Ḥammād al-Jawharī, Tāj al-Lugha wa Ṣiḥāḥ al-ʿArabīya, and 11 more
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نكص
النُّكُوصُ: الإِحْجَامُ عن الشيء. قال تعالى:
نَكَصَ عَلى عَقِبَيْهِ
[الأنفال/ 48] .