نكص
1 نَكَصَ عَنِ الأَمْرِ, (
A,
K,) [
aor. ـِ and sometimes نَكُصَ, as will be shown below,]
inf. n. نُكُوصٌ (
S,
IF,
A,
Msb,
K) and نَكُصٌ (
A,
K) and مَنْكَصٌ (
K) and نَكَصَانٌ, (
MA,) He receded, retired, or drew back from the thing, or affair, refrained, forbore, abstained, or desisted, from it; recoiled from it, shrank from it, or drew back from it in awe or fear; (
S,
IF,
A,
Msb,
K;) as also نَكَثَ عَنْهُ. (Aboo-Turáb,
TA.) You say also, نَكَصَ عَلَى عَقِبَيْهِ, (
S,
Msb,
K,) or على عَقِبِهِ, (
A,)
aor. ـُ (
S,
Msb) and نَكِصَ, (
S,) or the latter only, (
Sgh,
TA,) or the former is allowable, (
Zj,
TA,) He turned back from a thing to which he had applied himself; (
IDrd,
S, *
A, *
Msb, *
K,
TA;) meaning a good thing; and sometimes an evil thing; (
IDrd,
TA;) or meaning particularly a good thing; or
extr. with respect to an evil thing. (
K.) [See the
Kur, xxiii. 68.] Hence
↓ انتكص [as
syn. with نكص], though we have not heard it. (
Mgh.) 8 إِنْتَكَصَ see above.
حَظُّهُ نَاقِصٌ وَجَدُّهُ نَاكصٌ (
tropical:) [His lot, or portion, is decreasing, or deficient, and his good fortune is receding]. (
A,
TA.) مَنْكَصٌ, (
O,
B,
K,) like مَقْعَدٌ, (
TA,) [in the
CK, erroneously, مُنَكَّص,] A place to which one removes, withdraws, or retires afar off,
syn. مُتَنَحًّى. (
O,
B,
K.) El-Aashà says, praising 'Alkamah Ibn-'Olátheh, أَعَلْقَمُ قَدْ جَبَرَتْنِى الأُمُورُ
إِلَيْكَ وَمَا كَانَ لِى مَنْكَصُ [O 'Alkamah, affairs have compelled me to have recourse to thee, and there was not for me any place to which to retire. (
TA.)
