نقس
1 نَقَسَ It (a نَاقُوس) sounded. (
TA.)
A2: نَقَسَ, (
S,
A,
Msb,) or نَقَسَ النَّاقُوسَ, (
Mgh,
K,)
aor. ـُ
inf. n. نَقْسٌ, (
S,
Mgh,
Msb,) He struck, or beat, the ناقوس, (
S,
Mgh,
Msb,
K,) بِالْوَيِيلِ with the وبيل. (
Mgh,
K.) You say, نَقَسَتِ النَّصَارَى and ↓ انتقست The Christians struck, or beat the ناقوس. (
A.) It is said in a
trad., that the Muslims were near to doing so, (كَادُوا يَنْقُسُونَ,
S,
TA,) or used to do so, (كَانُوا يَنْقُسُونَ,
Mgh,) until 'Abd-Allah Ibn-Zeyd dreamed of the [mode of calling to prayer termed]
أَذَان. (
S,
Mgh,
TA.) 2 نقّس دَوَاتَهُ,
inf. n. تَنْقِيسٌ, He put ink (نِقْس) into his receptacle for ink. (
S, *
K.) 8 إِنْتَقَسَ see 1.
نِقْسٌ Ink;
syn. مِدَادٌ [which is a more common term]; (
A,
K;) that with which one writes: (
S,
TA:)
pl. أَنْقُسٌ (
S,
K) and أَنْقَاسٌ. (
S,
A,
K.) نَاقوُسٌ The thing which the Christians strike, or beat, (
S,
A,
Mgh,
Msb,
K,) to notify the times of prayer, (
S,
A,
Mgh,
K,) as a sign for commencing their prayer; (
Msb;) being a piece of wood, long, (
A,
Mgh,
K,) and large (
K,) [suspended to two cords, (Golius,)] with another which is short, [with which the former is struck, or beaten,] and which is called وَبِيلٌ: (
A,
K:)
pl. نَوَاقِيسُ (
S,
TA) and نُقُسٌ, as though the ا in the
sing. were imagined to be suppressed in forming the latter
pl. (
TA.)
b2: [Hence, in the present day, applied to A bell: and particularly to the bell of a church or convent.]