نثر

1 نَثَرَ, aor. ـُ (S, M, A, Msb, K,) and نَثِرَ, (M, Msb, K,) inf. n. نَثْرٌ (S, M, A, Msb, K) and نِثَارٌ, (M, K,) or the latter is a simple subst., (S, A, Msb,) He scattered a thing, sprinkled it, strewed it, dispersed it, or threw it dispersedly, (Lth, T, M, A, Msb, K, TA,) with his hand; (Lth, T;) as, for instance, grain, (Lth, T,) and fruit and the like, (Msb,) walnuts and almonds and sugar, (Lth, T,) and pearls, &c.; (A;) as also ↓ نثّر, (M, K,) inf. n. تَنْثِيرٌ; (TA;) [or the latter is with teshdeed to denote muchness, or frequency, or repetition, of the action; or its application to many objects: see مَنْثُورٌ.] b2: نَثَرَتِ النَّخْلَةُ (tropical:) The palm-tree [scattered or] shook off its unripe dates. (A.) b3: وَجَأَهُ فَنَثَرَ أَمْعَآءَهُ (tropical:) He smote him with a knife and scattered his intestines]. (M, A.) b4: لَأَنْثُرَنَّكَ نَثْرَ الكَرِشِ (tropical:) [I will assuredly scatter thine intestines like as one scatters the contents of the stomach of a ruminant beast]: said in threatening. (A.) b5: نَثَرَ وَلَدًا (tropical:) He (a man, M) had many children born to him. (M, K, TA.) And نَثَرَتِ المَرْأَةُ بَطْنَهَا, (T, A, Mgh TA,) and ذَا بَطْنِهَا, (T, Mgh, TA,) and كَرِشَهَا, (A, in art. كرش,) (tropical:) The woman brought forth many children; (T, A, in art. كرش;) scattered children; للزَّوْجِ to the husband. (Mgh.) b6: نَتَرَ الكَلَامَ (tropical:) He spoke, or talked, much. (M, K, TA.) b7: نَثَرَ قِرَاءَتَهُ (tropical:) He hastened, or was quick, in his reading, or reciting. (A.) b8: نَثَرَ, aor. ـِ inf. n. نَثِيرٌ, (tropical:) He (a beast of carriage, M, K, and a camel, M, and an ass, T) sneezed [app. so as to scatter the moisture in his nostrils]: (T, M, K, TA:) or did with his nose what is like sneezing: (T:) he (an ass, and a sheep or goat) sneezed, and expelled what annoyed or hurt him, from his nose: (A:) or نَثَرَتْ she (a ewe or goat) ejected from her nose what annoyed or hurt her. (S.) And نَثَرَ, (Fr, T, IAth, Mgh, Msb,) aor. ـِ (T, IAth,) inf. n. نَثْرٌ (T, Mgh) [and app. نَثِيرٌ, as above], (tropical:) He [a man] blew his nose; ejected the mucus from his nose; syn. امْتَخَطَ; (IAth;) as also ↓ استنثر: (S, K, art. مخط:) and he ejected what was in his nose, of mucus, and of that which annoyed or hurt him, in performing the ablution termed وُضُوْء; (Sgh, TA;) as also ↓ أَنْثَرَ, accord. to some: (TA:) or ↓ أَنْثَرَ signifies he ejected what was in his nose; or he emitted his breath from his nose; or he introduced the water into his nose; as also ↓ انتثر and ↓ استنثر: (K:) but this last explanation is outweighed in authority; the form ↓ انثر is disallowed by the leading lexicologists; and the author of the K, in respect of this form, follows Sgh, without due consideration: (TA:) [accord. to the more approved opinion,) نَثَرَ signifies he scattered what was in his nose by the breath; as also ↓ انتثر and ↓ استنثر: (S:) or, as some of the learned say, he snuffed up water, and then ejected what was in it, of anything annoying or hurting, or of mucus; as also ↓ استنثر: (IAar, T, Mgh:) or ↓ استنثر (T, M, IAth, K) and ↓ انتثر, (K,) he snuffed up water, and then ejected it (T, M, IAth, K) by the breath of the nose: (T, M, K:) accord. to some, نَثَرَ and ↓ استنثر signify he (a person performing وُضُوْء) snuffed up water: but others say that the latter signifies he ejected what was in his nose, of mucus &c.; agreeably with a trad. to be cited below: (Msb:) IAar says, that ↓ استنثر signifies he snuffed up water, and put in motion the نَثْرَة, or end of the nose, in purification: (T [in the Mgh, this explanation is ascribed to Fr:]) and Fr, that نَثَرَ and ↓ انتثر and ↓ استنثر signify he put in motion the نَثْرَة, in purification. (T.) It is said of Mohammad, كَانَ يَسْتَنْشِقُ ثَلَاثًا فِى كُلِّ مَرَّةٍ يَسْتَنْثِرُ [He used to snuff up water three times, every time ejecting it; &c.] and this indicates that ↓ استنثر differs from استنشق. (T, Mgh, Msb.) And it is said in a trad., إِذَا اسْتَنْشَقْتَ فَانْثُرْ, (S, Msb,) and فَانْثِرْ, with the conjunctive ا, and with damm and kesr to the ث, (Msb,) When thou snuffest up water, scatter what is in thy nose by the breath; (S;) or eject what is in thy nose, of mucus, &c.: (Msb:) or, as A'Obeyd relates it, ↓ فَأَنْثِرْ; inf. n. إِنْثَارٌ: (Msb:) or, as he relates it إِذَا تَوَضَّاتَ فَأَنْثِرْ, with the disjunctive ا; and he does not explain it; but the lexicologists do not allow ↓ أَنْثَرَ, from الإِنْثَارُ; one only says, نَثَرَ and ↓ انتثر and ↓ استنثر. (T.) No instance of ↓ استنثر used transitively has been heard, except in a trad. of El-Hasan Ibn-'Alee, أَنْفَهُ ↓ اِسْتَنْثَرَ [He ejected the contents of his nose; or he blew his nose]; as though the root [نَثَرَ] were regarded in it, or as though it were made to import the meaning of نَقَّى. (Mgh.) 2 نَثَّرَ see 1, first signification.3 نَاْثَرَ [ناثرهُ He contended with him in scattering, strewing, or dispersing, a thing or things. and hence,] b2: رَأَيْتُهُ يُنَاثِرُهُ الدُّرَّ [lit., I saw him contending with him in scattering pearls: meaning,] (tropical:) I saw him holding a disputation, or colloquy, with him, in beautiful, or elegant, language. (A.) 4 انثر as syn. with نَثَرَ and استنثر and انتثر: see 1, latter half, A2: انثرهُ (tropical:) He made his nose to bleed; syn. أَرْعَفَهُ. (S, A, K.) You say, طَعَنَهُ فَأَنْثَرَهُ (tropical:) [He pierced him and made his nose to bleed]: (S:) and ضَرَبَهُ فَأَنْثَرَهُ [He smote him and made his nose to bleed]. (A.) b2: (tropical:) He threw him down upon his نَثْرَة, (M, A, TA,) i. e., (TA,) [upon the end of his nose: or] upon his خَيْشُوم. (K, TA.) You say, طَعَنَهُ فَأَنْثَرَهُ عَنْ فَرَسِه (tropical:) [He pierced him and threw him down upon the end of his nose from his horse]. (M, A. *) 5 تَنَثَّرَ see 8.6 تَنَاْثَرَ see 8.8 انتثر (S, M, A, Msb, K) and ↓ نتاثر (S, M, A, K) and ↓ تنثّر (M, K) It became scattered, strewn, dispersed, or thrown dispersedly: (S, * M, A, Msb, K:) [or the second more properly signifies it became scattered, &c., by degrees, gradually, or part after part; resembling تَسَاقَطَ

&c.: and the third, being quasi-pass. of 2, denotes muchness, or frequency, or repetition, of the action; or its application to many things.] Yousay, انتثرت الكَوَاكِبُ (assumed tropical:) The stars became dispersed: or became scattered like grain. (TA.) And انتثروا and ↓ تنثّروا (tropical:) [They (meaning men) became as though they were scattered by the hand]. (A.) [And الشَّعَرُ ↓ تناثر, and الوَرَقُ, (assumed tropical:) The hair, and the leaves, fell off, and became scattered, by degrees.] And القَوْمُ ↓ تناثر (tropical:) The people fell sick and died [one after another]: (M, K: *) or you say مَوْتًا ↓ مَرِضُوا فَتَنَاثَرُوا [they fell sick and became separated by death, one after another]. (A.) A2: See also 1, latter half, throughout.10 إِسْتَنْثَرَ see 1, latter half, throughout.

نَثْرٌ (tropical:) [Prose: so accord. to general usage: and] rhyming prose: contr. of نَظْمٌ: so called as being likened to [scattered pearls, or] scattered grain. (TA.) نَثَرٌ: see نُثَارٌ: and نِثَارٌ: and مُنْتَثِرٌ.

A2: (tropical:) Loquacity, (M, TA,) and the divulging of secrets. (TA.) نَثِرٌ (tropical:) Loquacious; one who talks much: as also ↓ مِنْثَرٌ (M, K) and ↓ نَيْثُرَانٌ: (Sgh, K:) or vainly or frivolously loquacious, and a divulger of secrets: (A:) fem. نَثِرَةٌ only. (M.) نَثْرَةٌ [A single act of scattering, strewing, dispersing, or throwing dispersedly, with the hand. And hence,] b2: (tropical:) A sneeze: (K:) or the like thereof; peculiar to a beast of carriage (S) [or other beast, and a fish, as appears from what here follows.] It is said in a trad. (A, TA) of Kaab, (TA,) الجَرَادُ نَثْرَةُ حُوتٍ (A, TA) (tropical:) The locust is [produced by] the sneeze of a fish: or, as in a trad. of I'Ab, نَثْرَةُ الحُوتِ the sneeze of the fish. (TA.) [From this it is inferred that the locust is, like fish, lawful to be captured by one in a state of إِحْرَام.]

A2: (tropical:) The end of the nose: (IAar, T:) or i. q., خَيْشُومٌ: (A:) or the خيشوم with what is next to it: (M, K:) and (M, A; but in the K, or) the interstice that is between the two mustaches, (S, M, A, K,) against the partition between the two nostrils: (S, M, K:) so [in a man and] in the lion: (S, M:) or the nose or the lion. (M.) b2: Hence, (T, &c.,) النَّثْرَةُ, (T, S, M, K,) and نَثْرَةُ الأَسَدِ, (T, A,) (tropical:) Two stars, between which is the space of a span, (شبْرٌ, [said in several law-books to be the twelfth part of a رُمْح, and therefore twenty-two minutes and a half, accord. to modern usage; but there is reason to believe that ancient usage differed from the modern with respect to both these measures, and was not precise nor uniform;]) and in [or between] which is a particle (لَطْخٌ) of white, as though it were a portion of cloud; it is the nose of Leo, [which the Arabs extended far beyond the limits which it has upon our globes, (see الذِّرَاعُ,)] (S, K,) and is a Mansion of the Moon: (S:) [app. the Aselli; Asellus Boreus and Asellus Australis; two small stars in Cancer, between which is a little cloud or nebula, called Præsepe: (see Pliny, l. xviii. c. 35:)] a certain star or asterism, which is of the stars or asterisms of Leo, and which is a Mansion of the Moon: (M:) [app. meaning the same, or Præsepe:] or a certain star in the sky, as though it were a particle (لَطْخ) of cloud, over against two small stars, in the science of astronomy pertaining to the sign of Cancer [though accord. to the Arabs belonging to Leo]: (T:) [app. Præsepe; the two small stars adjacent to it being the Aselli:] a certain star, as though it were a particle (لَطْخٌ) of cloud; so called because it appears as though the lion had ejected if from his nose: (A:) [app. meaning the same:] in the Megista [of Ptolemy] it is mentioned by the name of the manger [i. e., Præsepe], and the name of the two small [for المنيرة in my copy of Kzw, I read الصفيرة,] stars is the two asses [i. e., the Aselli]: (Kzw, Description of Cancer:) or the nose and nostrils of the lion, consisting of three obscure stars, near together: الطَّرْفُ is [before them, and is] the two eyes of the lion, consisting of two stars, before which is الجَبْهَةُ, consisting of four stars: (AHeyth:) [app. meaning the Aselli together with Præsepe:] three stars, near together; the nose of the lion; [app. meaning the same;] which compose the Eighth Mansion of the Moon: (Kzw, Description of the Mansions of the Moon:) [these descriptions apply to this Mansion of the Moon accord. to those who make النَّوْء to signify “ the heliacal rising: ” see مَنَازِلُ القَمَرِ, in art. نزل:] or the bright star [app. meaning b] in Cancer: (Kzw, Description of Cancer:) [this agrees with the place of the Eighth Mansion of the Moon accord. to those who make النَّوْء to signify “ the anti-heliacal setting: ” see again مَنَازِلُ القَمَر.] The Arabs say إِذَا طَلَعَتِ النَّثْرَةُ قَنَأَتِ البُسْرَةُ, meaning, When النثرة rises [heliacally], the unripe date begins to have its redness intermixed with blackness: its rising is very soon after that of الشِّعْرَى [or Sirius: about the epoch of the Flight, it rose heliacally, in central Arabia, on the 17th of July, O. S.; and Sirius, on the 13th of the same month]. (M.) نُثَارٌ What becomes scattered, strewn, or dispersed, of, or from, a thing; (S, Msb;) as also ↓ نُثَارَةٌ, (M, K,) and ↓ نَثَرٌ, (K, [but see مُنْتَثِرٌ,]) and, as some say, ↓ نِثَارٌ: (Msb:) so the ↓ نُثَارَة of wheat, and of barley, and the like: (Lh, M:) or نُثَارٌ signifies the crumbs of bread, and of everything, that become scattered around the table: (T:) or the crumbs of the table that become scattered around: as also ↓ نُثَارَةٌ: (A:) or this last, what becomes scattered from the table, and is eaten in the hope of obtaining a recompense [for preventing its being thrown away or trodden under foot]. (Lh, M, K. *) نِثَارٌ, with kesr, a subst. from نَثَرَ, (S, A, Msb,) signifying The act of scattering, strewing, dispersing, or throwing dispersedly, [anything,] (Lth, T, A, Msb,) [and particularly fruits and the like, such as] walnuts and almonds and sugar [and money, &c., on festive occasions,] and grain. (Lth, T.) You say شَهِدْتُ نِثَارَ فُلَانٍ I was present at, or I witnessed, such a one's scattering (Lth, T, A) of fruits, &c. (Lth, T.) And كُنَّا فِى نِثَارِهِ We were at his scattering. (A.) b2: Also, What is scattered, strewn, dispersed, or thrown dispersedly, (A, Msb, TA,) of such things as sugar and fruits and the like, (A, TA,) [and money, &c., on festive occasions;] a subst., (A, TA,) in the sense of مَنْثُورٌ, (A, Msb, TA,) like كِتَابٌ in the sense of مَكْتُوبٌ; (Msb;) as also ↓ نَثَرٌ. (A, TA.) [See also مُنْتَثَرٌ.] You say أَصَنْتُ مِنَ النِّثَارِ I obtained [somewhat] of the scattered [sugar or fruits &c.]. (Msb.) and مَا أَصَبْنَا مِنْ نَثَرِ فُلَانٍ شَيْئًا We did not obtain aught of such a one's scattered things, such as sugar and fruit. (TA.) b3: Accord. to some, i. q. نُثَارٌ in the first of the senses explained above. (Msb.) نَثُورٌ (tropical:) A female, (S, K,) or woman, (M,) having numerous offspring: (S, M, A, K:) and so a male, (M,) or man. (TA.) b2: (tropical:) A ewe, or she-goat, (TA,) having a wide orifice to the teat: (K, TA:) as though she scattered the milk. (TA.) b3: See also نَاثِرٌ.

نَثِيرٌ: see مَنْثُورٌ.

نُثَارَةٌ: see نُثَارٌ, in three places.

نَاثِرٌ (A) and ↓ مِنْثَارٌ (A, K) (tropical:) A palm-tree (نَخْلَةٌ) that shakes off its unripe dates: (A:) or of which the unripe dates become scattered. (K.) b2: and the former, (tropical:) A sheep or goat that coughs, so that something becomes scattered from its nose; as also نَافِرٌ: (As, S:) or a sheep or goat that ejects from its nose what resembles worms; as also ↓ نَثُورٌ: (M, K:) or that sneezes, and ejects from its nose what annoys or hurts it, resembling worms. (TA.) نَيْثُرَانٌ: see نَثِرٌ.

مِنْثَرٌ: see نَثِرٌ.

دُرٌّ مُنَثَّرٌ Pearls scattered, or strewn, much. (S, TA.) See مَنْثُورٌ.

مِنْثَارٌ: see نَاثِرٌ.

دُرٌّ مَنْثُورٌ, and ↓ نَثِيرٌ, Pearls scattered, strewn, dispersed, or thrown dispersedly, with the hand. (A, * TA.) See also مُنْتَثِرٌ, and مُنَثَّرٌ. You say ↓ كَأَنَّ لَفْظَهُ الدُّرُّ النَّثِيرُ [As though his speech were scattered pearls]. (A.) b2: لَهُ كَرِشٌ مَنْثُورَةٌ (tropical:) He has [numerous] young children. (A, art. كرش.) b3: Also مَنْثُورٌ A kind of sweet-smelling flower; (TA;) [the gilliflower: so called in the present day: see also خِيرِىٌّ.] b4: See also خَشْخَاشٌ.

مُنْتَثِرٌ In a scattered or strewn state; in a state of dispersion; (M;) as also ↓ مُتَنَاثِرٌ, (TA,) and ↓ نَثَرٌ, which last is applied to a thing and to things. (M.) See also نِثَارٌ, and نُثَارٌ, and مَنْثُورٌ.

You say ↓ دُرٌّ مُتَنَاثِرٌ [Pearls in a scattered state]. (TA.) مُتَنَاثِرٌ: see مُنْتَثِرٌ.

ندر

1 نَدَرَ, (T, S, M, &c.,) aor. ـُ (S, M, Msb,) inf. n. نَدْرٌ, (S,) or نُدُورٌ, (M, Msb, K,) [which latter is the more common, if not the only right, form,] It fell, (T, M, Msb, K,) or went, or came, out, or forth, from another thing, or from other things, (Msb,) or from amid a thing, (T,) or from the inside of a thing, (T, M, K,) or from among things, so as to be apparent, or standing out to view; (M, K;) it fell, and became apart, fell off, fell out, or went, or came, out, or forth, from the generality of things, or the general assemblage, main body, bulk, or common mass, to which it pertained, or from other things: (S, TA:) or, [in some cases,] simply, it fell, or dropped. (TA.) b2: نَدَرَ مِنْ قَوْمِهِ He went forth [and became separated] from his people. (Msb.) and نَدَرَ مِنْ بَيْتِهِ He went forth from his house or tent. (A.) I heard one say to his wife, أُنْدُرِى [Go thou forth and be separate: app. meaning, be thou divorced]. (Z, in the A, immediately following what here immediately precedes.) b3: نَدَرَ العَظْمُ, (A,) or نَدَرَ مِنْ مَوْضِعِهِ, (Msb,) The bone became dislocated or displaced. (A, Msb.) It is said of a man, in a trad., عَضَّ يَدَ آخَرَ فَنَدَرَ ثَنِيَّتَهُ [or, accord. to another relation, نَدَرَتْ, meaning, He bit the arm, or hand, of another, and his central incisor dropped out]. (TA.) b4: نَدَرَ طَائِرٌ عَنْ شَجَرَةٍ

A bird dropped and alighted from a tree. (TA.) b5: نَدَرَ نَادِرٌ مِنَ الجَبَلِ A prominence projected, or jutted out, from the mountain. (A.) b6: أَصَابَ المَطَرُ الحَشِيشَ فَنَدَرَ الرُّطْبُ The rain fell upon the dry herbage and the fresh herbage came forth. (A.) And نَدَرَ النَّبَاتُ The plant put forth its leaves (M, K) from its uppermost branches. (M.) And نَدَرَتِ الشَّجَرَةُ The tree produced its خُوصَة [q. v.]; (M, K;) which is the case when the camels are able to pasture upon them: (M:) or became green. (Sgh, K.) b7: نَدَرَ فِى عِلْمٍ, or فَضْلٍ, (IKtt,) and فى فَضْلِهِ, (Msb,) (tropical:) He outwent others [or became extraordinary] (IKtt, Msb) in knowledge or science, or in excellence, (IKtt,) and in his excellence. (Msb.) b8: نَدُرَ الكَلَامُ, (tropical:) inf. n. نَدَرَاةٌ, (Msb, TA,) (tropical:) The speech, or language, was extraordinary or strange, [with respect to usage or analogy or both]: (TA:) it was the contr. of chaste: (Mz, 13th نوع:) [but this explanation requires restriction; for what is extraordinary with respect to usage is the contr. of chaste; but many a word that is extraordinary with respect to analogy is more chaste than a cognate word agreeable with analogy: hence the above phrase is also explained as signifying] the speech, or language, was chaste and good. (Msb.) 4 اندرهُ, trans. of نَدَرَ, He made it to fall, or to go, or come, out, or forth, from another thing, or from other things; [&c.: see 1:] (Msb:) he made it to fall. (S, K.) You say, ضَرَبَ يَدَهُ بَالسَّيْفِ فَأَنْدَرَهَا [He struck his arm, or hand, with the sword, and made it to fall.] (S.) And انْدَرَ مِنَ الحِسَابِ كَذَا (assumed tropical:) [He made such a thing to fall out, he threw it out, from the reckoning]. (S.) And أَنْدَرَ البِكَارَةَ فِى الدِّيَةِ (tropical:) He threw out, or rejected, the young camels in the mulct for homicide. (A.) [See also 6.] And أَنْدَرَ عَنْهُ مِنْ مَالِهِ كَذَا (tropical:) He took forth (أَخْرَجَ) from him, of his property, such a thing. (M, K, TA.) and أَنْدَرْتُ يَدَ فُلَانٍ عَنْ مَالِى (tropical:) I caused [the hand of] such a one to cease from freely disposing of my property. (A.) b2: اندر He said, or did, something extraordinary, or strange. (IKtt.) 6 تنادروا [They mutually threw out, or rejected, a thing from a reckoning]. A poet (namely Aboo-Kebeer El-Hudhálee, TA) says, وَإِذَا الكُمَاةُ تَنَادَرُوا طَعْنَ الكُلَى

نَدْرَ البِكَارَةِ فِى الجَزَآءِ المُضْعَفِ [When the courageous men covered with arms mutually throw out from the reckoning the piercing of the kidneys, as the young camels fall out from the reckoning in the doubled compensation]: he says, that their blood is suffered to be shed unrevenged, like as the young camels are thrown out from the account in the mulct for homicide: (S, TA:) meaning, that the pierced kidneys are thrown out from the reckoning, like as the young camel is thrown out, and not reckoned, in the mulct for homicide that is doubled time after time. (IB, TA.) b2: فُلَانٌ يَتَنَادَرُ عَلَيْنَا (A, TA) (tropical:) Such a one comes to us [rarely, or] sometimes. (TA.) 10 استندرت الإِبِلُ The camels sought after the leaves that had come forth upon the uppermost branches of the plants, to eat them, and applied themselves diligently to them: (M:) [or you say,] استندرت النَّبَاتَ they sought after the plants, to eat them, and applied themselves diligently to them. (TA.) And المَالُ يَسْتَنْدِرُ الرُّطْبَ [The camels] seek after the fresh herbage leisurely, and by degrees, or repeatedly. (A.) [The original signification of استندر seems to be He desired to find a thing or things in a separate or scattered state; or to single out.] b2: استندروا أَثَرَهُ (tropical:) They tracked his footsteps. (A.) نَدْرَةٌ and ↓ نُدْرَةٌ, with fet-h and damm, are substs. from نَدَرَ, [signifiying The state of being apart from, or out of, the generality, or main body; &c.: b2: and hence, (tropical:) Extraordinariness; rareness.] (Msb.) You say, لَا يَكُونُ ذٰلِكَ إِلَّا فِى

النَّدْرَةِ, or ↓ فى النُّدْرَةِ, and ↓ الّا نَادِرًا, (Msb,) and لَا يَقَعُ ذٰلِكَ إِلَّا فِى النُّدْرَةِ, (A,) (tropical:) That will not be, (Msb,) and that will not happen, (A,) save [extraordinarily; or rarely; or once] in, or during, the space of [several] days; syn. فِيمَا بَيْنَ الأَيَّامِ. (Msb.) And إِنَّمَا يَكُونُ ذٰلِكَ فِى النَّدْرَةِ بَعْدَ النَّدْرَةِ (tropical:) That is, or will be, only once in whiles. (TA.) And لَقِيَهُ نَدْرَةً, (M, K,) and فِى النَّدْرَةِ, (S, M, K,) and ↓ فى النَّدَرَةِ, (S, TA,) and ↓ فى النُّدَيْرَةِ, (TA,) and ↓ نَدَرَى (M, K) and فى نَدَرَى, (S, K,) and النَّدَرَى, (M, K,) and فى النَّدَرَى, (S, M, K,) (tropical:) He met him [once] in, or during, the space of [several] days; syn. بَيْنَ الأَيَّامِ, (M, K,) or فِيمَا بَيْنَ الأَيَّامِ. (S.) b3: Also نَدْرَةٌ A piece of gold, (K,) and of silver, (TA,) found in the mine. (K.) See also شَذْرٌ.

نُدْرَةٌ: see نَدْرَةٌ.

نَدَرَةٌ: see نَدْرَةٌ.

نَدَرَى: see نَدْرَةٌ. b2: نَقَدَهُ مَائَةً نَدَرَى He produced [or payed] to him a hundred out of his property. (M, K.) نُدَيْرَةٌ: see نَدْرَةٌ.

نَادِرٌ [act. part. n. of نَدَرَ; Falling, or going, or coming, out, or forth, from another thing; &c.: see 1]. b2: A wild ass going, or coming, forth from the mountain. (TA.) b3: A prominence, or projecting part, of a mountain. (A, * Msb.) b4: [What remains here and there upon the ground, of rain, i. e., of rain-water: n. un. with ة: pl. of the latter, نَوَادِرُ.] You say, شَرِبَتِ الإِبِلُ مِنْ نَادِرِ, المَطَرِ and نَوَادِرِهِ, [The camels drank of what remained here and there upon the ground, of the water of the rain.] (A.) b5: (tropical:) Extraordinary; strange; rare; unusual; applied to speech or language [and to a word and any other thing: fem. and n. un. with ة: pl. of the latter as above: see نَدَرَ, and نَدُرَ]: (A:) or very extraordinary, strange, rare, or unusual, applied to speech or language; and in like manner نَادِرَةٌ [as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates] applied to a word: pl. of the latter as above: (Mz, 13th نَوْع:) [see مُطَّرِدٌ:] or نَوَادِرُ الكَلَامِ signifies what deviate from the generality of words or speech or language. (S, * M, K.) You say also, فُلَانٌ نَادِرَةُ الزَّمَانِ, meaning, (tropical:) Such a one is the unequalled of the age. (K, * TA.) [and نَادِرَةٌ, used in this manner as a subst., signifies (tropical:) Any extraordinary, strange, rare, or unusual, thing, or saying: pl. as above.] See مُضْحِكَاتٌ. b6: لَا يَكُونُ ذٰلِكَ إِلَّا نَادِرًا: see نَدْرَةٌ.

أَنْدَرٌ i. q. بَيْدَرٌ [A place in which wheat or grain is trodden out]; (S, M, K;) in the dial. of the people of Syria: (S, M:) or, (M, K,) accord. to Kr, (M,) reaped wheat collected together; or wheat collected together in the place where it is trodden out: (M, K:) pl. أَنَادِرُ. (S, K.)

نقر

1 نَقَرَ, (S, A, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. نَقْرٌ, (S, Msb,) He (a bird) pecked, or picked up, (S, A, Msb, K,) a grain, (S,) or grains, (A, Msb,) from this place and that, (A, K,) بِمِنْقَارِهِ with his beak. (A.) [Accord. to the TA, the addition “ from this place and that,” which is found in the K and A, and in one place in the S, seems to be unnecessary. And ↓ انتقر signifies the same: see 8, in art. قب.] b2: [Hence, because of the sure aim with which a bird pecks a thing,] the same verb, having the same [aor. and] inf. n. signifies, (tropical:) It (an arrow) hit the butt. (Msb.) And He (an archer) hit the butt, without making his arrow to pass through, partly or wholly. (TA.) b3: [Hence also,] (assumed tropical:) He took [or picked] a thing, as, for instance, food, with the finger. (TA.) b4: Also, (M, K,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (M, TA,) He struck a thing (IKtt, K, * TA,) with a thing: (IKtt, TA:) [generally, he struck, knocked, or pecked, a thing with a pointed instrument, like as a bird strikes a thing with its beak:] he struck [or pecked] a mill-stone, or a stone, &c., with a مِنْقَار [which is a pick, or a kind of pickaxe; i. e., he wrought it into shape, and roughened it in its surface, with a pick]. (M, TA.) b5: [Hence,] (tropical:) He wrote [or engraved writing] فِى حَجَرٍ upon a stone. (A, K.) Whence the saying, التَّعْلِيمُ فِى الصِّغَرِ كَالنَّقْرِ عَلَى الحَجَرِ [or, as in a verse of Niftaweyh, فِى الحَجَرِ, i. e., Teaching in infancy is like engraving writing upon stone]. (TA.) b6: He struck [or fillipped] a man's head, and in like manner a lute, and a tambourine, with his finger. (TA.) You say also أُذُنَهُ ↓ أَنْقَرَ, meaning, He struck [or fillipped] his ear with his finger. (AA, in TA, art. نطب.) b7: [Hence,] نَقَرَ, [aor. ـُ inf. n. نَقْرٌ, as appears from what follows;] and ↓ أَنْقَرَ; (tropical:) [He made a snapping with his thumb and middle finger;] he struck his thumb against the end of the middle finger and made a sound with them. (A.) [And in like manner the former verb used transitively; as in the following instance:] وَضَعَ طَرَفَ إِبْهَامِهِ عَلَى بَاطِنِ سَبَّابَتِهِ ثُمَّ نَقَرَهَا [(tropical:) He put the end of his thumb against the inner side of his first finger, then made a snapping with it]. (TA.) See also نَقْرٌ, below. b8: [Hence also,] نَقَرَ بِالدَّابَّةِ, (T, A, TS,) or بِالفَرَسِ, (S,) aor. ـُ (TA,) inf. n. نَقْرٌ; (T, S, TS;) and ↓ أَنْقَرَ, (A, TS,) inf. n. إِنْقَارٌ; (TS;) (tropical:) He made a [smacking or] slight sound, to put in motion the [beast or] horse, by making his tongue adhere to his palate and then opening [or suddenly drawing it away]: (S:) or he struck with his tongue the place of utterance of the letter ن and made a [smacking] sound [by suddenly withdrawing his tongue]: (A:) نَقْرٌ signifies the making the end of the tongue to adhere to the palate, then making a sound [by suddenly withdrawing it]: (M, K:) or one's putting his tongue above his central incisors, at the part next the palate, then making a smacking sound [so I render ثُمَّ يَنْقُر]: (TA:) [the sounds thus described, which are nearly the same, are commonly made by the Arabs in the present day, in urging beasts of carriage:] or an agitation of the tongue (K, TA) in the mouth, upwards and downwards: (TA:) or a sound, (so in some copies of the K and in the TA,) or slight sound, (so in the TS [as mentioned in the TA] and in some copies of the K) by which a horse is put in motion: (TS, K:) or نَقَرَ بِلِسَانِهِ, accord. to IKtt, signifies he struck his palate with his tongue to quiet the horse: but this is at variance with what is said by Az, J, and ISd, and requires consideration. (TA.) A poet, (S,) Fedekee El-Minkaree, (K,) i. e., 'Obeyd Ibn-Máweeyeh, of the tribe of Teiyi, (TA,) uses النَّقُرْ for النَّقْرْ, meaning النَّقْرُ بِالْخَيْلِ [The smacking with the tongue to urge the horses]: pausing after the word, at the end of a hemistich, he transfers the vowel of the ر to the ق, (S, K,) agreeably with the dial. of certain of the Arabs, (TA,) that the hearer may know it to be the vowel of the [final] letter when there is no pause; (S;) like as you say, هٰذَا بَكْرُ and مَرَرْتُ بِبَكِرْ: but this is not done when the word is in the accus. case (S, K:) and if you choose, you may make the final letter quiescent in pausing, though it is preceded by a quiescent letter. (S.) b9: Hence also, فَإِذَا نُقِرَ فِى النَّاقُورِ [Kur, lxxiv. 8,] (tropical:) For when the horn shall be blown: (S, * A, * Bd, K:) from نَقْرٌ signifying (tropical:) the making a sound: originally, striking, which is the cause of sound. (Bd.) See also نَاقُورٌ, below. b10: Also, نَقَرَ He bored, perforated, or made a hole through or in or into, a thing: (TA:) or he did so with a مِنْقَار: (S:) and, inf. n. نَقْرٌ, he hollowed out, or excavated, a piece of wood. (Mgh, Msb.) نُقِرٌ and ↓ اِنْتَقَرَ, (so in some copies of the K,) or ↓ أُنْتُقِرَ, (so in other copies of the K and in the TA,) both in the pass. form, (TA,) said of stone and of wood and the like, signify alike, (K,) It was bored, or perforated, or it had a hole made through or in or into it: (TA:) [and it was hollowed out.] Yousay, نَقَرَ البَيْضَةَ عَنِ الفَرْخِ, (K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. نَقْرٌ, (TA.) He made a hole in the egg [so as to disclose the young bird]. (K.) And نَقَرَت الخَيْلُ, (A,) and بحوافرها نُقَرًا ↓ انتقرت, (Lth, K,) The horses made hollows in the ground with their hoofs. (Lth, A, K.) And in like manner, ↓ انتقرت السُّيُولُ نُقَرًا The torrents left hollows in the ground, in which water was retained. (TA.) b11: Hence, نَقَرَ عَنِ الأَمْرِ; (Msb;) and عَنْهُ ↓ نقّر, (S, K,) inf. n. تَنْقِيرٌ; (S;) and ↓ نقّرهُ; and ↓ تنقّرهُ: and ↓ انتقرهُ; (K;) (tropical:) He searched or inquired into the thing; investigated, scrutinized, or examined, it; (S, Msb, K, TA;) and endeavoured to know it: (TA;) and so نَقَرَ عَنِ لخَبَرِ (tropical:) he investigated the news, and endeavoured to know it. (A.) [and hence,] السَّهْمَ بَيْنَ إِصْبَعَيْهِ ↓ نقّر. (K, in art. حن,) or عَلَى الإِبْهَامِ, inf. n. تَنْقِيرٌ, (K, in art. دوم,) [He tried the sonorific quality of the arrow by turning it round between his fingers, or upon his thumb: see حَنَّانٌ, and دَرَّ السَّهْمُ, and see also 4, in art. دوم: or] نقّر السَّهْمَ signifies he made the arrow to produce a sharp sound [by turning it round between his fingers, or] upon his thumb. (TK, in art. دوم.) 2 نَقَّرَ see 1, last two sentences.4 أَنْقَرَ see 1, in three places, in the first half.

A2: انقر عَنْهُ, (S, K,) inf. n. إِنْفَارٌ, (TA,) He refrained, forbore, abstained, or desisted, from it or him; he left or relinquished, it or him. (S, * K.) Hence the saying, ضَرَبَهُ فَمَا أَنْقَرَ عَنْهُ حَتَّى قَتَلَهُ He beat him and left him not until be killed him. (TA.) And hence the saying of I'Ab, مَاكَانَ اللّٰهُ لِيُنْقِرَ عَنْ قَاتِلِ الْمُؤْمِنِ, i. e., God will not leave the slayer of the believer until He destroy him (S, TA.) 5 تَنَقَّرَ see 1, last signification 8 إِنْتَقَرَ see 1, latter part, in four places.

نَقْرٌ (tropical:) A slight sound that is heard in consequence of striking the thumb against the middle finger [and then letting them fly apart in opposite directions, passing each other]: (S, K:) [or the snapping with the fingers or with the thumb and middle finger, or with the thumb and first finger; as also ↓ نَقيرٌ: n. an. of the former with ة.] One says, مَا أَثَابَهُ نَقْرَةٌ (tropical:) [He did not reward him with even a snap of the fingers;] meaning, with anything: (S, K [in the former of which it is implied that نقرة thus used is from نَقْرٌ in the first of the senses explained above;]) not used thus save in [a negative phrase. (S.) A poet says, وَهُنّ حَرَى أَلَّا يُثِبْنَكَ نقْرَةٌ وَأَنْتَ حَرُى بِالنَّار حِينَ تُثِيبُ (tropical:) [And they are fit, or worthy, not to reward thee with anything, and thou art fit for, or worthy of, the fire of hell when thou rewardest]. (S.) Or the right reading in both these instances is ↓ نُقْرَةً, with damm. (TA.) [See نُقْرَةٌ.] One says also, لَمْ يَكْتَرِتْ لِى بِقَدُر نَقْرَة إِصْبَعٍ (tropical:) [He did not care for me so much as a snap of a finger]. (A.) [See also an (??) in a verse cited in the first paragraph of art. شأو.] I'Ab, in explanation of the words of the Kur, [iv. 123,] وَلَا يُظْلَمُونَ نَقِيرًا, put the end of the thumb against the inner side of his first finger, then made a snapping with it (ثُمَّ نَقَرَهَا), and said, This is what is termed ↓ نَقِيرٌ; [denoting the lit. meaning to be (tropical:) And they shall not be wronged a snap of the fingers.] (TA.) But see نُقْرَةٌ, below. b2: Also, A sound, or slight sound, by which a horse is put in motion: (TS, K:) as also ↓ نَقِيرٌ: (TA:) or the former has one or other of the different significations assigned to it above, in the explanations under the head of نَقَرَ بِالدَّابَّةِ. (K, &c.) نِقْرٌ: see نُقْرَةٌ.

نَقْرَةٌ: see نَقْرٌ, in four places.

نُقْرَةٌ A small hollow or cavity in the ground: (S:) or a hollow or cavity in the ground, not large: (Msb:) or a hollow or cavity in the ground in which water stagnates: (TA:) or a round وَهْدَة [or hollow] in the ground, (K, TA,) not large, in which water stagnates: (TA:) pl. نُقَرٌ (A, K) and نِقَارٌ: (K:) ↓ نَقِيرٌ also signifies a hollow, or cavity, in the ground; and its pl. is أَنْقِرَةٌ. (S.) b2: Hence, (S.) The place where the قَمَحْدُوَة [or occiput] ends, in the back part of the neck; (K;) i. e., the hollow in the back of the neck; (TA;) what is called نُقْرَةُ القَفَا; (S, A, Msb;) i. e., the hollow where (??) brain ends: the cupping in that part occasions forgetfulness: (Msb.) [and any similar hollow as the pit of the stomach: and a dimple: accord. to present usage; and in this sense it is used in the A, K, and TA, voce فَحْصَةٌ b3: The cavity, or socket, of the eye. (K.) b4: Foramen and; syn. ثَقْبُ الاِسْتِ: (K:) but in the (??) it is said that نُقْرَةُ الوَرِكِ signifies the hole, or perforation, that is the middle of the haunch; [app. meaning the sacro-ischiatic foramen: see الفَائِلُ, in art. فيل: but perhaps it may sometimes mean the socket of the thigh-bone; for نُقْرةٌ signifies any socket of a bone.] (TA.) b5: The little spot [or embryo] upon the back of a date stone, (AHeyth, K,) which is as though it were hollowed. (TA,) and from which the palm-tree grows forth: (AHeyth;) as also ↓ نَقيرٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and ↓ نِقْرٌ (K) and ↓ أُنْقُورٌ. (Sgh, K) You say, مَا أَثَابَهُ نُقْرَةٌ, (El-Basáir, TA,) and ↓ نَقِيرًا, (A,) lit., [He did not reward hour] (??) even a little spot on the back of a date-stone; (A, El-Basáïr;) meaning, (tropical:) with the meanest thing. (El Basáïr.) In the S and K, ما اثابه نَقْرَةٌ: see نَقْرٌ.] And مَا أَعْنَى عَنِّى نُقْرَةٌ (tropical:) He did not stand me in stead of the meanest (??) (A.) Lebeed says, bewailing the death of his brother Arbad.

↓ وَلَيْسَ النَّاسُ بَعْدَكَ فِى نَقِيرٍ

lit., [And the people, after thee, are not worth] a little spot on the back of a date-stone; meaning, لَبْسُوا بَعْدَكَ فِى شَىْءٍ (tropical:) [after thee they are not worth anything]. (S.) And hence, accord. to ISk [and the Jel], the saying in the Kur, [iv. 123.] وَلَا يُظْلَمُونَ نَقِيرًا [And they shall not be wronged even as to a little spot on the back of a date-stone.] (TA.) Hence also, [in verse 56 of the same chap.,] لَا يُؤْتُونَ النَّاسَ نَقِيرًا (tropical:) They would not give men a thing as inconsiderable as the little hollow in the back of a date-stone. (Jel.) See also نَقْرٌ. b6: The place in which a bird lays its eggs: (K:) pl. نُقَرٌ. (TA.) نَقِيرٌ: see نَقْرٌ, in three places.

A2: What is bored, or perforated; and what is hollowed out, or excavated; (مَا نُقِبَ, TA, and مَا نُقِرَ, K, TA;) of stone, and of wood, and the like. (K, TA.) b2: A piece of wood, (Msb,) or a block of wood, (أَصْلُ خَشَبَةٍ, S, K,) or a stump, or the lower part, (أَصْل,) of a palm-tree, (T,) which is hollowed out, and in which the beverage called نَبِيذ is made; (T, S, Msb, K;) the نبيذ whereof becomes strong: (S, K:) or a stump, or the lower part, (اصل,) of a palm-tree, which it was a custom of the people of El-Yemámeh to hollow out, then they crushed in it ripe dates and unripe dates, which [with water poured upon them] they left until fermentation had taken place therein and subsided: (A 'Obeyd:) or a stump, or the lower part, (اصل,) of a palm-tree, whereof the middle was hollowed out, then dates were put in them, with water, which became intoxicating نبيذ: (IAth:) the word is of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ. (Msb.) It is said in a trad., that Mohammad forbade النَّقِير, (S, * Msb, * TA,) meaning, the نبيذ thereof. (TA.) b3: A trunk of a palm-tree, hollowed out, and having the like of steps made in it, by which one ascends to غُرف [or upper chambers]. (K. [See also عَجَلَةٌ.]) b4: See also نُقْرَةٌ, throughout.

نُقَارَةٌ The quantity [of grain] which a bird pecks, or picks up. (K.) See 8, in art. قب. b2: What remains from the boring, or excavating, (نَقْر,) of stones: like نُجَارَةٌ and نُحَاتَةٌ. (TA.) نَقَّارٌ An engraver: or, accord. to Az, one who engraves stirrups and bits and the like: and one who bores (يَنْقُرُ) mill-stones. (TA.) b2: (tropical:) One who investigates, scrutinizes, or examines, and endeavours to know, affairs, and news. (TA.) ناَقِرٌ act. part. n. of نَقَرَ. b2: (tropical:) An arrow that hits, (Msb,) or has hit, (S, A, K,) the butt, (S, K,) or the eye of the target: (A:) if it do not hit the butt it is not so called: (S, TA:) [but see a phrase following:] pl. نَوَاقِرُ. (A, Msb.) b3: [Hence,] أَخْطَأَتْ نَوَاقِرُهُ (tropical:) [lit., His arrows that were wont to hit the butt missed]; meaning, he did not continue in the right course. (TA.) [And hence,] نَاقِرَةٌ (tropical:) A calamity; (K, TA;) pl. نَوَاقِرُ. (TA.) One says, رَمَاهُ الدَّهْرُ بِنَاقِرَةٍ, and بِنَوَاقِرَ, (tropical:) Fortune smote him with a calamity, and with calamities. (TA.) b4: Also, نَاقِرَةٌ (tropical:) A right argument, allegation, evidence, or the like; syn. حُجَّةٌ مُصِيبَةٌ: in the K, a و is incorrectly inserted between these two words: but the pl., نَوَاقِرُ, is afterwards correctly rendered in the K. (TA.) One says, أَتَتْنِى عَنْهُ نَوَاقِرُ (tropical:) There came to me, from him, speech which displeased me, or grieved me: or right arguments, or the like, (K, TA,) like arrows hitting the mark. (TA.) In the L, رَمَاهُ بِنَوَاقِرَ (tropical:) He cast at him words that hit the mark. (TA.) نَاقُورٌ (tropical:) A horn in which one blows; syn. صُورٌ: (S, K:) in the Kur, lxxiv. 8, the horn in which the angel shall blow for the congregating at the resurrection: the blast there mentioned is said to be the second blast: Fr. says that it is the first of the two blasts. (TA.) أُِنْقُورٌ: see نُقْرَةٌ.

مِنْقَرٌ: see مِنْقَارٌ.

مُنَقَّرُ العَيْنِ, (K,) and ↓ مُنْتَقَرُهَا, (Sgh, K,) or ↓ مُنْتَقِرُهَا, (CK,) Having the eye sunken. (K.) مِنْقَارٌ The beak of a bird; that which is to a bird as the mouth to a man; (Msb;) because it pecks, or picks up, with it: (TA:) or of a bird which is not one of prey; that of a bird of prey being called مِنْسَرٌ: (Fs, and S in art. نسر, and MF:) therefore the explanation in the K, which is, the مِنْسَر of a bird, is incorrect: (MF:) [and the dual signifies the two mandibles of a bird; used in this sense in the TA, art. صغو:] pl. مَنَاقِيرُ. (S.) b2: Hence, (TA,) The fore part of the خُفّ [app. meaning the foot of a camel, not a boot]. (K.) b3: [A kind of pickaxe; or a pick, by which a mill-stone, or the like, is pecked, or wrought into shape, and roughened in its surface; (see 1;)] an iron instrument like the فَأْس, (A, K,) slender, round, and having a خَلْف [or pointed head], (TA,) with which one pecks, (يُنْقَرُبِهَا, A, K, TA,) and cuts stones, and hard earth; (TA;) used [also] by a carpenter: (S:) and ↓ مِنْقَرٌ signifies [app. the same, or nearly the same,] i. q. مِعْوَلٌ: (S, K:) [the former is applied in the present day to a chisel:] pl. of the former, مَنَاقِيرُ; (S;) and of the latter, مَنَاقِرُ. (TA.) Dhu-r-Rummeh says, كَأَرْحَآءِ رَقْدٍ زَلَّمَتْهَا المَنَاقِرُ [Like mill-stones of Rakd (a mountain so called) which the minkars have rounded]. (TA.) See زَلَّمَ.

مُنْتَقَرُ العَيْنِ, or مُنْتَقِرُهَا: see مُنَقَّر.

نكر

1 نَكِرَهُ: see 4, in several places.

A2: نَكُرَ, inf. n. نَكَارَةٌ, [He was, or became, ignorant: or perhaps only the inf. n. of the verb in this sense is used: see نَكَارَةٌ, below. b2: And, contr., He possessed cunning; meaning both intelligence with craft and forecast; and simply intelligence, or skill and knowledge: or perhaps only the inf. n. of the verb in this sense is used: see نَكْرٌ. b3: ] It (a thing, or an affair,) was, or became, مُنْكَر [app. here meaning disapproved; or bad, evil, abominable, or foul; or disallowed]. (A.) b4: Also, (S, K,) inf. n. نَكَارَةٌ, (TK,) or نُكْرَةٌ, (TA,) It (a thing, or an affair,) was, or became, difficult, hard, arduous, or severe. (S, K. *) 2 نكّرهُ, (inf. n. تَنْكِيرٌ, Msb,) He changed, or altered, him or it, (S, A, Msb, TA,) to an unknown state, (S, TA,) so as not to be known; (TA;) [he disguised him or it.] It is said in the Kur, [xxvii. 41,] نَكِّرُوا لَهَا عَرْشَهَا Alter ye her throne so that it may not be known to her. (TA.) See also 4, last signification but one. b2: [In grammar, He made it (a noun) indeterminate.]3 ناكرهُ, (S, TA,) inf. n. مُنَاكَرَةٌ, (A, K,) He strove, or endeavoured, to outwit, deceive, beguile, or circumvent, him; or he practised with him mutual deceit, guile, or circumvention; syn. خَادَعَهُ and دَاهَاهُ: the inf. n. is also explained by مُرَاوَغَةٌ as well as مُخَادَعَةٌ [both of which signify the same]. (TA.) b2: Hence, (TA,) He contended with him in fight; (S, K;) and in war, or hostility. (A, K.) It is said of Mohammad, by Aboo-Sufyán (S, TA) Ibn-Harb, (TA,) لَمْ يُنَاكِرْ أَحَدًا إِلَّا كَانَتْ مَعَهُ الأَهْوَالُ, (S, TA,) meaning, He did not war with any one without being aided by terror [cast into the hearts of his opponents]. (TA.) And one says, بَيْنَهُمَا مُنَاكَرَةٌ Between them two is war, or hostility, (A, TA, *) and fighting. (TA.) 4 انكرهُ, (S, A, Msb, K, &c.,) inf. n. إِنْكَارٌ; (Msb, &c.;) and ↓ نَكِرَهُ, (S, A, Msb, K, &c.,) aor. ـَ (L,) or it does not admit the variations of tense like other verbs, (IKtt, Msb,) it is not used in the future tense, nor in commanding nor in forbidding, (Lth,) inf. n. نَكَرٌ (K) and نُكْرٌ and نُكُورٌ (S, K) and نَكِيرٌ; (K;) and ↓ استنكرهُ; (S, M, A, K;) and ↓ تناكرهُ; (M, K;) signify the same; (S, A, Msb, K, &c.;) i. e., He ignored, was ignorant of, did not know, failed to know, or [rather] was unacquainted with, it (i. e. a thing, or an affair, IKtt, K) or him (a man, S); syn. جَهِلَهُ; (Kr, K;) or contr. of عَرَفَهُ: (S, * IKtt, Msb:) [see also نَكَارَةٌ:] some, however, say, the نَكِرَ has a more intensive signification than أَنْكَرَ: and some, that نَكِرَ has for its objective complement an object of the mind; and أَنْكَرَ, an object of the sight: (A, TA:) or [the converse is the case;] نَكِرَ has for its objective complement an object of the sight; and أَنْكَرَ, an object of the mind: (Kull, p. 81:) [but both forms seem to have been generally used indiscriminately.] ElAashà says, وَأَنْكَرَتْنِى وَمَا كَانَ الَّذِى نَكِرَتْ مِنَ الحَوَادِثِ إِلَّا الشَّيْبَ وَالصَّلَعَا [And she did not know me; and the accidents which she did not know were none others than hoariness, and baldness of the fore part of the head]. (S, TA.) And it is said in the Kur, [xi. 73,] وَأَوْجَسَ مِنْهُمْ خِيفَةٌ ↓ نَكِرَهُمْ [He knew not what they were, and conceived a fear, or a kind of fear, of them]: (TA:) نَكِرَهُمْ here signifies أَنْكَرَهُمْ: (Jel:) or it means أَنْكَرَ ذٰلِكَ مِنْهُمْ [q. v. infra]. (Bd.) b2: أَنْكَرَهُ also signifies He denied, or disacknowledged, it; (L, art. جحد; [and this signification, as well as the first, may be meant to be indicated by those who say that أَنْكَرَهُ signifies the contr. of عَرفَهُ;]) [and so ↓ نَكِرَهُ; for] إِنْكَارٌ signifies i. q. جُحُودٌ, (S, TA,) and so نُكْرَانٌ [which is an inf. n. of نَكِرَهُ]. (TA.) [In this sense it is doubly trans.:] you say, أَنْكَرْتُهُ حَقَّهُ, meaning, I denied, or disacknowledged, to him his right. (Msb.) The cause of إِنْكَار with the tongue is إِنْكَار with the mind, but sometimes the tongue denies, or disacknowledges, (يُنْكِرُ,) a thing when the image thereof is present in the mind; and this is lying; as is the case in the following passage of the Kur, [xvi. 85,] يَعْرِفُونَ نِعْمَةَ اللّٰهِ ثُمَّ يُنْكِرُونَهَا [They confess, or acknowledge, the favour of God; then they deny, or disacknowledge, it]. (B.) See also نَكِيرٌ.

A2: Also, He deemed it strange, extraordinary, or improbable. (MF, voce عَجَبٌ.] b2: [Also He denied, or negatived, it. b3: He disbelieved it. b4: and He disapproved it; he disliked it; he deemed it, or declared it to be, bad, evil, abominable, or foul; he disallowed it: so accord. to explanations of the pass. part. n., q. v. infra; and accord. to common usage of classical and of modern times.] It is said of Abraham, when the angels came to him, and he saw that their hands did not touch the meat which be had brought to them, نَكِرَهُمْ, meaning, أَنْكَرَ ذٰلِكَ مِنْهُمْ [He deemed that conduct of their's evil, or disapproved it: or, perhaps, he did not know what that conduct of their's was, or what it indicated]: ↓ نَكِرَ and أَنْكَرَ and ↓ استنكر [of which last see an ex. voce تَهِمَ] signify the same. (Bd, xi. 73.) And you say, أَنْكَرْتُ عَلَيْهِ فِعْلَهُ, meaning, I blamed, or found fault with, his deed, and forbade it; I disapproved and disallowed his deed. (Msb:) [and I manifested, or showed, or declared, disapproval, or disallowance, of his deed: and in like manner, أَنْكَرْتُ عَليْهِ, elliptically; فِعْلَهُ, (his deed,) or قَوْلَهُ, (his saying;) or the like, being understood; like عَيَّرَ عَلَيْهِ for عَيَّرَ عَلَيْهِ فِعْلَهُ or the like: see نَكِيرٌ.] b5: إِنْكَارٌ also signifies The changing [a thing; like تَنْكِيرٌ]: (T, Msb, TA:) or the changing what isمُنْكَر [here app. meaning disapproved: see نَكِيرٌ, which is syn. with it, but is a simple subst.]. (S, TA.) b6: مَا أَنْكَرَهُ How great it his cunning! meaning both his intelligence, and craft, and forecast; and simply, his intelligence, or skill and knowledge. (TA.) And مَا كَانَ أَنْكَرَهُ How great was his cunning, &c. (TA.) 5 تنكّر He, or it, changed, or altered, himself, or itself; or became changed, or altered; (S, A, Msb, TA;) to an unknown state: (S, TA:) [he assumed an unknown appearance: he disguised himself; or became disguised:] he became changed or altered in countenance by anger so that he who saw him did not know him: (Har, p. 144:) or تَنَكُّرٌ signifies the changing, or altering oneself, or itself; or becoming changed, or altered; from a state which pleases one to a state which one dislikes. (T, K.) b2: إِيَّاكَ وَالتَّنَكُّرَ Avoid thou evil disposition. (Mgh.) b3: تَنَكَّرَ لِى

فُلاَنٌ Such a one [became changed, or altered, in countenance to me by anger so that I did not know him; or] met me in a morose manner (A, TA.) [In art. شنف in the K, تَنَكَّرَهُ occurs.]6 تناكرهُ: see 4, first signification. b2: تناكر He feigned ignorance. (S, A, K.) b3: تناكروا They acted with mutual hostility. (TS, A, K.) 10 اشتنكرهُ: see 4, first signification, and also in the latter part. b2: اِسْتِنْكَارٌ also signifies The inquiring respecting, or seeking to understand, a thing, or an affair, which one disapproves; (K, TA;) when one disapproves confirming, or establishing, the opinion expressed by an inquirer, or disapproves that his opinion should be contrary to what he has expressed. (TA.) نَكْرٌ: see نُكْرٌ.

A2: See also نَكِرٌ.

نُكْرٌ (S, K) and ↓ نَكْرٌ [but the former is the more common] and ↓ نَكَارَةٌ (S, A, K) and ↓ نَكْرَآءُ (A, K) Cunning; meaning both intelligence mixed with croft and forecast; and [simply] intelligence, or sagacity, or skill and knowledge; syn. دَهَآءٌ; (S, A, K;) and فِطْنَةٌ. (A, K.) See also نَكُرَ.

You say of a man who is intelligent and evil, or cunning, مَا أَشَدَّ نُكْرَهُ, and ↓ نَكْرَهُ [How great is his cunning, &c.!] (S.) And فَعَلَهُ مِنْ نُكْرِهِ, and ↓ نَكَارَتِهِ, He did it of his cunning, &c. (TA.) And it is said in a trad. of Mo'áwiyeh, إِنِّى لَأَكْرَهُ النَّكَارَةَ فِى الرَّجُلِ Verily I hate cunning (الدَّهَآءَ) in the man. (TA.) A2: نُكْرٌ, as an epithet, applied to a thing, or an affair, Difficult, hard, arduous, or severe; as also ↓ نُكُرٌ (M, A, K) and ↓ نَكِيرٌ: (TA:) and i. q. مُنْكَرٌ, q. v. (S, A, K.) نَكَرٌ [app. Difficulty, hardness, arduousness, or severity;] a subst. from نَكُرَ, in the sense of صَعُبَ [It was difficult, &c.]. (IKtt, TA.) نَكُرٌ: see نَكِرٌ, in two places.

نَكِرٌ and ↓ نَكُرٌ (S, K) and ↓ نُكُرٌ and ↓ مُنْكَرٌ, (K,) epithets applied to a man, Possessing cunning; or intelligence mixed with cunning and forecast; (S, K;) and [simply] intelligent, or skilful and knowing: (K:) and so, applied to a woman, ↓ نُكُرٌ (K) and ↓ نَكْرٌ (L, TA [but this is probably a mistake for ↓ نُكُرٌ]) and ↓ نَكْرَآءُ, but أَنْكَرُ is not applied to a man in this sense, (Az, TA,) nor is مُنْكَرَةٌ to a woman: (TA:) pl. of the first and second (S, K,) and third, (K,) أَنْكَارٌ: (S, K:) and of the last, مَنَاكِيرُ: (Sb, S, K:) or, applied to men, مُنْكَرُونَ; and to other things, مَنَاكِيرُ [which is irreg.]. (Az, TA.) b2: Also, نَكِرٌ and ↓ نَكُرٌ One who disapproves what is bad, evil, abominable, or foul; expl. by أَلَّذِى يُنْكِرُ الْمُنْكَرَ: pl. as above. (S.) نُكُرٌ: see نُكْرٌ, and مُنْكَرٌ.

A2: See also نَكِرٌ, in two places.

نَكَرَةٌ a subst. from إِنْكَارٌ, (K,) with which it is syn., [app. signifying (like نَكِرَةٌ) Ignorance: or denial: or disapproval, or the like]. (TK,) like نَفَقَةٌ from إِنْفَاقٌ. (K.) It is said, in a certain trad, كُنْتَ لِى أَشَدَّ نَكَرَةً, (TA,) i. e. إِنْكَارًا, (TK,) [Thou wast to me most ignorant. &c.]

نَكِرَةٌ Ignorance, &c., (إِنْكَار,) of a thing; (TA;) contr. of مَعْرِفَةٌ; (S, K;) and so ↓ نَكَارَةٌ; syn. جَهَالَةٌ; as in the phrase فِيهِ نَكَارَةٌ [In him is ignorance]. (A.) See also نَكَرَةٌ. b2: [As contr. of مَعْرِفَةٌ, it is also, in grammar, an epithet applied to a noun, signifying Indeterminate, or indefinite.]

نَكْرَآءُ: see مُنْكَرٌ. b2: A calamity: (K:) rigour, or severity, of fortune; (A, TA;) as also [its dim.] نُكَيْرَآء. (TA.) A2: See also نُكْرٌ.

A3: and see نَكِرٌ.

نَكِيرٌ i. q. إِنْكَارٌ [in the sense of Denial]. (K.) It is said in the Kur, xlii. 46. فَمَا لَكُمْ مِنْ نَكِيرٍ

And there shall be for you no [power of] denial of your sins. (Bd, Jel.) And one says, شُتِمَ فُلَانٌ فَمَا كَانَ عِنْدَهُ نَكِيرٌ [Such a one was reviled and he had no denial to make]. (A.) b2: [Also, i. q. إِنْكَارٌ in the sense of Disapproval, or the like: and manifestation thereof. See what here follows.]

b3: Also, i. q. إِنْكَارٌ in the sense of The changing [a thing]: (T, Msb, TA:) or the changing what is مُنْكَر [here app. meaning disapproved]: (S, TA:) a simple subst. (T, TA.) The words of the Kur, [xxii. 43 and lxvii. 18,] فَكَيْفَ كَانَ نَكِيرِ are explained as signifying And how was my changing [of their condition]! (TA:) or the meaning is, and how was my manifestation of disapproval of their conduct, (إِنْكَارِى عَلَيْهِمْ,) by changing favour into trial, and life into destruction, and a flourishing condition into a state of ruin! (Bd, xxii. 43.) In [some of] the copies of the K, it is said that نَكِيرَةٌ [but in a MS. copy I find نَكِيرٌ and so in the CK] is a subst. from تَنَكُّرٌ as signifying the changing, or altering, oneself, or itself; or becoming changed, or altered; from a state which please one to a state which one dislikes: but a different statement is found in the T: [see above.] and نكيرة is not mentioned by any authority. (TA.) A2: A strong fortress. (Sgh, K.) See نُكْرٌ.

A3: See also مُنْكَرٌ.

نَكَارَةٌ: see نَكِرَةٌ.

A2: See also نُكْرٌ.

أَنْكَرُ Worse, and worst; more, and most, evil, abominable, or foul. So it is explained as occurring in the Kur. [xxxi. 18,] إِنّ أَنْكَرَ الْأَصْوَاتِ لَصَوْتُ الحَمِيرِ [Verily the most abominable of voices is the voice of asses]. (TA.) b2: See also نَكِرٌ: and the fem., نَكْرَآءُ, see above.

مُنْكَرٌ contr. of مَعْرُوفٌ: (K:) [an explanation including several significations, here following.]

b2: [Ignored, or unknown; as also ↓ مَنْكُورٌ, for مَنْكُورٌ is syn. with مَجْهُولٌ [the pass. part. n. of the verb by which أَنْكَرَهُ is explained by Kr and in the K]; (TA;) and ↓ مُسْتَنْكَرٌ signifies the same. (L.) For the pls. of مُنْكَرٌ, see نَكِرٌ. b3: [Denied, or disacknowledged. (See the verb.) b4: Deemed strange, extraordinary, or improbable, (See again the verb.)] b5: Any action disapproved, or disallowed, by sound intellects; or deemed, or declared, thereby, to be bad, evil, hateful, abominable, foul, unseemly, ugly, or hideous; or pronounced to be so by the law because the mind deliberates respecting the regarding it as such: and thus it is used in the Kur, ix. 113 [and other places]: (B, TA:) or anything pronounced to be bad, evil, hateful, abominable, or foul, and forbidden, and disapproved, disliked, or hated, by the law: (TA:) a saying, or an action, unapproved, not approved, unaccepted, or not accepted, by God: (KT:) unbecoming, indecent, or indecorous. (KL.) See مَعْرُوفٌ, voce عُرْفٌ. مُنْكَرٌ and ↓ نُكْرٌ and ↓ نُكُرٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and ↓ نَكْرَآءُ (S, Msb K) are all syn., (S, A, Msb, K,) [and are used as epithets in which the quality of a subst. predominates,] signifying a bad, an evil, a hateful, an abominable, a foul, an unseemly, an ugly, or a hideous, [and a formidable,] thing or affair [or action or saying or quality, &c.]: (Msb:) [in this sense, its pl. is مُنْكَرَاتٌ and مَنَاكِيرُ; as will be seen below:] ↓ نُكْرٌ is contr. of عُرْفٌ [which is syn. with مَعْرُوفٌ]. (TA.) You say فِيهِمُ الْمَعْرُوفُ وَالْمُنْكَرُ, and العُرْفُ والنُّكْرُ, [In them are good and evil qualities.] And هُمْ يَرْكَبُونَ الْمُنْكَرَاتِ, and المَنَاكِيرَ, [They commit bad, evil, abominable, or foul, actions.] (A.) And it is said in the Kur, [xviii. 73,] لَقَدْ جِئْتَ شَيْئًا نُكْرًا [Verily thou hast done a bad, an evil, an abominable, or a foul, thing]. (S.) A2: The name of one of two angels, the other of whom is named نَكِيرٌ; (S;) who are the two triers of [the dead in] the graves. (ISd, K.) A3: See also نَكِرٌ.

مَنْكُورٌ: see مُنْكَرٌ, first signification. The pl. is مَنَاكِيرُ, [which is also a pl. of مُنْكَرٌ,] accord. to Sb, who mentions it because, accord. to rule, the pl. of a sing. of this class is formed by the addition of و and ن for the masc., and ا and ت for the fem. (Abu-l-Hasan, TA.) خَرَجَ مُتَنَكِّرًّا He went forth disguised; or changed in outward appearance, or state of apparel. (TA.) مُسْتَنْكَرٌ: see مُنْكَرٌ, first signification.

طَرِيقٌ يَنْكُورٌ A road, or way, in a wrong direction. (S, K.)

نمر

1 نَمِرَ, aor. ـ, (S, K,) inf. n. نَمَرٌ, (S,) [It was, or became, spotted like a leopard or panther: see also 5:] it (a cloud, or collection of clouds,) became of the colour of the نَمِر [leopard or panther], (S, K,) spots being seen in their interstices. (S.) A2: See also 5, in three places.2 نمّر, inf. n. تَنْمِيرٌ, (assumed tropical:) He, or it, changed, or altered, and rendered morose, his face. (T.) A2: See also 5, in two places.5 تنمّر [He made himself like a leopard or panther, in diversity of colours: see also 1].

'Amr Ibn-Maadee-Kerib says, قَوْمٌ إِذَا لَبِسُوا الحَدِي دَ تَنَمَّرُوا حَلَقًا وَقِدَّا [A people who, when they put on armour of iron mail,] make themselves like the leopard or panther (نَمِر) in the diversity of colours of the iron [rings] and the thongs. (S.) b2: (assumed tropical:) He made himself like the leopard or panther (نَمِر, K, TA) in ill-nature: (TA:) (tropical:) he became angry; as also ↓ نَمِرَ, (M,) aor. ـَ inf. n. ↓ نَمَرٌ; (TA;) and ↓ نمّر: (M:) (tropical:) he became evil in disposition; as also ↓ نَمِرَ: (T:) (tropical:) he became angry and evil in disposition; as also ↓ نَمِرَ and ↓ نمّر; (IKtt, Sgh, K;) like the نَمِر: (TA:) (tropical:) he strained the voice in threatening: (Sgh, K:) and تنمّر لَهُ (assumed tropical:) he became ill-natured and altered to him, and threatened him; because the نَمِر is never met otherwise than angry and illnatured. (As, S, K.) نِمْرٌ: see نَمِرٌ.

نَمِرٌ: see أَنْمَرُ, throughout. b2: نَمِرٌ (S, A, Msb, K, &c.) and نِمْرٌ, (M, A, Msb, K,) which is a contraction of the former, (Msb,) or a dial. form, (TA,) [The leopard;] a certain wild beast, (S, A, Msb, K, &c.) well known, (A, K,) more malignant than the lion, (T, M, Mgh, Msb,) and bolder, (Msb,) so called because of his نُمَر [or spots], (M, K,) being of divers colours, (M,) called in Persian پَلَنْكْ: (Mgh:) fem. with ة: (S, Msb:) pl. [of pauc.] أَنْمُرٌ (M, K) and أَنْمَارٌ, (M, Msb, K,) and [of mult.] نُمُورٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) held by Th to be pl. of نِمْرٌ, (M,) and نُمُورَةٌ (Msb, and so in some copies of the K) and نُمُرٌ, (S, M, K,) which occurs in poetry, and is anomalous, perhaps a contraction of نُمُورٌ, (S,) and not mentioned by Sb, (M,) and نُمْرٌ, (M, K,) which is the most common in occurrence, but, accord. to Th, he who uses it makes the sing. أَنْمَرُ, (M,) and نِمَارٌ, (M, K,) held by Th to be pl. of نِمْرٌ, (M,) and نِمَارَةٌ. (K.) As the نَمِر is one of the most abominable and malignant of wild beasts, one says, لَبِسَ فُلَانٌ لِفُلَانٍ جِلْدَ النَّمِرِ, meaning, (tropical:) Such a one became changed, or altered, to such a one; or met him in a morose manner: (IB:) or became very rancourous, or malicious, towards him. (TA.) The kings of the Arabs, when they sat [in judgment] to slay a man, used to attire themselves in skins of the نَمِر, and then give orders for the slaying of him whom they desired to slay. (IB.) A2: See also نَمِيرٌ, throughout.

نُمْرَةٌ A spot, or speck, of any colour whatever: pl. نُمَرٌ. (M, K.) نَمِرَةٌ A garment of the kind called بُرْدَة, of wool, (S, K, TA,) striped, (TA,) worn by the Arabs of the desert: (S, K, TA:) or a garment of the kind called شَمْلَة, (M, K,) or كِسَآء, (A, Mgh, Msb,) having white and black stripes, or lines, (M, Mgh, Msb, K,) worn by the Arabs of the desert: (A, Msb:) and a garment of the kind called حِبَرَة; (M, K;) so called because of the diversity of the colours of its stripes: (M:) or any مئْزَر, of those worn by the Arabs of the desert, that is a striped شَمْلَة: (IAth:) or a striped إِزَار of wool; (TA;) pl. نِمَارٌ: (IAth, Msb:) it is an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates. (TA.) It is said in a trad. of Saad, نَبَطِىٌّ فِى حُبْوَتِهِ أَعْرَابىٌّ فِى نَمِرَتِهِ أَسَدٌ فِى تَأْمُورَتِهِ [A Nabathean in his hubweh (a long piece of cloth, or the like, wound round the back and legs of a person sitting with his thighs against his belly); an Arab of the desert in his nemireh; a lion in his den]. (S.) b2: See also أَنْمَرُ.

مَآءٌ نَمِير (T, S, M, A, K) and ↓ نَمِرٌ, (M, K,) Wholesome water, whether sweet or not sweet: (S, K:) or sweet and wholesome water: (T, A:) or wholesome in satiety: (TA:) or copious: (Ibn-Keyrán, M, K:) or increasing in quantity, syn. نَامٍ, (As, T, TA,) or زَاكٍ, (K,) whether sweet or not sweet: (T, TA:) or increasing in quantity in the beasts [app. meaning while they drink], (زَاكٍ فِى المَاشِيَة نَامٍ, T, M,) whether sweet or not sweet. (M.) [As زَاكٍ is coupled with نَامٍ, app. as an explicative adjunct, in the T and M, I think that I have here rendered it correctly: otherwise I should have supposed it to mean, perhaps, pure.] b2: حَسَبٌ نَمِيرٌ, (S, M, A, K,) and ↓ نَمِرٌ, (M, K,) (tropical:) i. q. زَاكٍ [see above]: (S, M, A, K:) pl. أَنْمَارٌ. (M.) أَنْمَرُ Spotted white and black: (M, K:) or in which is black and white; applied to a wild beast; as also ↓ نَمِرٌ: (A:) fem. نَمْرَآءُ; (M, A, K;) applied to a ewe or she-goat: (A:) pl. نُمْرٌ: (A:) also أَنْمَرُ a horse, (S, K,) and an ostrich, (K,) variegated like the نَمِر, (S, K, TA,) having one spot white and another of any colour: (S, TA:) pl. as above: (TA:) or, applied to an ostrich, in which is blackness and whiteness: pl. as above: (S:) and a lion in which is dust-colour and blackness: and ↓ مُنَمَّرٌ a bird having black spots; also sometimes applied as an epithet to a horse such as is termed بِرْذَوْن. (TA.) Also, A collection of clouds of the colour of the نَمِر, spots being seen in their interstices: (S:) or having black and white spots: (TA:) and ↓ نَمِرٌ signifies a collection of clouds having marks like those of the نَمِر: or small portions near together: n. un. with ة: (M:) or ↓ نَمِرَةٌ signifies a small portion of a cloud: and its pl. [or rather the coll. gen. n.] is نَمِرٌ. (K.) It is said in a proverb, أَرِنِيهَا نَمِرَةً

أُرِكَهَا مَطِرَةً [Show thou it to me spotted like the leopard, I will show it to thee raining]: (S, K:) alluding to an event which one certainly knows will happen when the symptoms thereof appear: (Meyd, K, TA:) originally said by Aboo-Dhueyb El-Hudhalee: (TA:) نَمِرَة is here like خَضِرًا in the Kur, vi. 99, for أَخْضَرَ: (Akh, S:) by rule, it should be نَمْرَآءَ, (K, TA,) fem. of أَنْمَرُ. (TA.) b2: See also نَمِرٌ.

مُنَمَّرٌ: see أَنْمَرُ. [In the TA, voce حِبَرَةٌ, it is applied as an epithet to a garment of the kind called بُرْد: and in the K, voce حَبِيرٌ, to a cloud, or collection of clouds: in the former case, it app. signifies striped, (see نَمِرَةٌ,) or, as in the latter case, spotted.]

نوش

1 نَاشَهُ, aor. ـُ (S, A, Msb,) inf. n. نَوْشٌ, (S, A, Msb, K,) He took it, or reached it, absolutely, or with the hand, or with the extended hand; (S, A, Msb, K;) as also ↓ تناوشهُ, (A, TA,) inf. n. تَنَاوُشٌ; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) and ↓ انتاشهُ, (A, TA,) inf. n. إِنْتِيَاشٌ: (S, K:) it is also written with ء; (A, K, TA, in art. نأش;) and so is تَنَاوُشٌ. (Msb, and K in art. نأش.) And He took him, or reached him, to seize his beard, or his head. (ISk, S.) You say, نَاشَهُ نَوْشَةً خَفِيفَةً

[He reached him with a feeble, or slight reach, with his spear or the like]. (A.) And الرِّمَاحُ تَنُوشُهُ The spears reach him: occurring in a poem of Dureyd Ibn-Es-Simmeh. (TA.) and الظِّبَآءُ تَنُوشُ الأَرَاكَ [The antelopes reach and take with their mouths of the trees called اراك]; as also ↓ تَنْتَاشُهُ. (A.) And النَّاقَةُ تَنُوشُ بِفِيَها الحَوْضَ [The she-camel reaches and takes with her mouth of the water of the drinking-trough]. (TA.) A poet says, (ISk, S,) namely, Gheylán Ibn-Horeyth Er-Raba'ee, (TA,) فَهْىَ تَنُوشُ الحَوْضَ نَوْشًا مِنْ عَلَا نَوْشًا بِهِ تَقْطَعُ أَجْوَازَ الْفَلَا And she reaches and takes of the drinking-trough, from above it, a copious draught by means of which she traverses [the middles of the] waterless deserts without needing other water. (S.) Yousay also, نُشْتُ مِنَ الطَّعَامِ شَيْئًا I obtained somewhat of the food. (TA.) And الوَصِيَّةُ نَوْشٌ مِنَ المَعْرُوفِ [The testament is a means of an attaining of benefit]: i. e., the testator gives [for يَتَنَاوَلُ in my original I read يُنَاوِلُ] to the legatee without diminishing his property [during his own life]. (TA.) And it is said in the Kur, [xxxiv. 51,] مِنْ مَكَانٍ بَعِيدٍ ↓ وَأَنَّى لَهُمُ التَّنَاوُشُ meaning, [But how shall] the attaining of belief [be possible to them from a distant place, i. e.,] in the world to come, when they have disbelieved in him [namely Mohammad] in the present world? in which passage some read [التَّنَاؤُشُ,] with ء. (S.) [See art. نأش.] Accord. to Ibn-'Abbád, in this instance, ↓ التناوش signifies Returning. (K, * TA.) And 'Áïsheh said of her father, الدِّينَ بِنَعْشِهِ إِيَّاهُ ↓ فَانْتَاشَ And he restored the religion, and laid hold upon it and took it from the abyss into which it had fallen; [by his exalting it;] in which instance, also, the verb is sometimes pronounced with ء. (TA.) b2: نَاشَ بِهِ, aor. as above, He clung, or clave, to him, or it. (TA.) A2: نُشْتُهُ خَيْرًا, (Lth, S,) inf. n. نَوْشٌ, (Lth,) I made him to attain good; (Lth, S;) and شَرًّا evil. (Lth.) 3 نَاوَشُوهُمْ بِالرِّمَاحِ, [inf. n. مُنَاوَشَةٌ, They reached, or thrust, them with the spears, in near, but not close, conflict, being in like manner reached, or thrust, by them,] (A, Mgh,) is from تَنَاوُشٌ in the first of the senses assigned to it above: (Mgh:) مُنَاوَشَةٌ, in conflict, is the reaching one another [with spears or other weapons] (ISk, S, K) when the two parties are near [but not close]: (ISk, S, TA) and is like مُهَاوَشَةٌ, i. e., conflicting. (TA.) See also 6. b2: ناوش الشَّىْءَ He mixed with [or engaged in] the thing. (IAar.) 6 تَنَاْوَشَ see 1, in three places. b2: تَنَاوَشُوهُمْ بِالرِّمَاحِ They [reached or] thrust them with the spears, [in near, but not close, conflict,] being in like manner [reached or] thrust by them: (Msb:) تَنَاوُشٌ is the reaching one another with the spears [or other weapons] when the two parties are not close together. (TA.) See also 3.8 إِنْتَوَشَ see 1, in three places. b2: انتاشهُ also signifies he caused him to come, or go, forth (K, TA) from a place of destruction: or he took, led, or drew, him forth therefrom: (TA:) and he saved him, or rescued him, from destruction. (A, * TA.) نَوُوشٌ Strong: (K:) a man possessing might, or strength, courage, valour, or prowess: (S, TA:) as also نَؤُوشٌ, q. v. (TA.) [In two copies of the S, I find the latter only, with ء].

نبض

1 نَبَضَ, aor. ـِ inf. n. نَبْضٌ and نَبَضَانٌ (S, A, K) and نَبِيضٌ, (so in a copy of the S,) It (a vein, or an artery,) pulsed, or beat, (TA,) [or throbbed;] was, or became, in a state of motion, or agitation. (S, A, K.) b2: [Hence,] ما نَبَضَ لَهُ عِرْقُ عَصَبِيَّةٍ (tropical:) [No party-spirit, or zeal in the cause of his party, became roused, or excited, in him;] he did not aid his people, or party, against oppression; was not angry, or zealous, for them, and did not defend them. (A, TA.) b3: and ↓ نَبَضَ نَابِضُهُ (tropical:) His anger became roused, or excited. (A, TA.) b4: [Hence also,] نَبَضَتِ الأَمْعَآءُ, aor. as above, (in the L, written نَبُضَ, but this is doubtless a mistake,] (assumed tropical:) The bowels became in a state of commotion. (TA.) b5: And نَبَضَ البَرْقُ (assumed tropical:) The lightning flashed lightly, or slightly, (K, TA,) like the نَبْض of a vein or an artery. (TA.) A2: See also 4.2 نَبَّضَ see 4, in two places.4 أَنْبَضَتِ الحُمَّى عِرْقَهُ The fever made his vein, or artery, to pulse, beat, (TA,) [throb,] or become in a state of motion or agitation. (A, TA. *) b2: انبض القَوْسَ, (T, S, M, A, Mgh,) like

أَنْضَبَهَا, (Lth, T, M,) but the former is the more approved; (Lth, 'Eyn;) and انبض عَنْهَا; (A, Mgh;) or انبض فِيهَا; (AHn, K;) and فيها ↓ نبّض, inf. n. تَنْبيضٌ; (AHn, TA;) in the K, فِيهَا ↓ نَبَضَ, which is a mistake; (TA;) [He twanged the bow;] he made the bow to give a sound: (AHn, K:) or he put the string of the bow in motion, [or made it to vibrate,] (A, K,) or pulled it, (T, S, M, Mgh,) and then let it go, (S, Mgh,) in order that it might twang, (S, K,) or produce a sound: (T, M, Mgh:) and انبض بِالْوَتَرِ (S, A, Mgh) signifies the same: (S, Mgh:) or he took the string of the bow with the ends of his two fingers, and then let it go so that it might fall against the handle of the bow: (JM:) and انبض الوَتَرَ he pulled the string of the bow without an arrow, and then let it go: (Yaakoob:) or he pulled the string of the bow, and then let it go so that he heard it give a sound. (Lh.) Hence the proverb, إِنْبَاضُ بِغَيْرِ تَوْتِيرِ, (S,) or مِنْ عَيْرِ تَوْتِيرٍ, (A,) [Twanging the bow without fastening, or binding, or bracing, the string; meaning (tropical:) threatening without the means of execution]: applied to him who pretends to that which he has not the means of performing. (A, TA.) [See also art. وتر.] And a poet says, ↓ لَأَرْمِيَنَّكَ رَمْيًا غَيْرَ تَنْبِيضِ [I will assuredly shoot thee with a shooting, not a mere twanging]: meaning, my pulling [of the bow] shall not be a threatening, but execution. (TA.) b3: You say also, أَنْبَضَ النَّدَّافُ مِنْبَضَتَهُ [The separater and loosener of cotton by means of the bow and mallet made his mallet to cause the string of the bow to vibrate]. (A, TA.) نَبْضٌ [an inf. n. used as a subst., signifying The pulse]. b2: Also, A pulsing vein, or artery: as in the saying جَسَّ الطَّبِيبُ نَبْضَهُ [The physician felt his pulsing vein, or artery: or his pulse]: but it is more chaste to say ↓ مَنْبِضَهُ q. v. (TA.) b3: See also نَبَضٌ. b4: [It is also used as an epithet. You say,] فُؤَادٌ نَبْضٌ, as also ↓ نَبَضٌ, and ↓ نَبِضٌ, (Sgh K,) and ↓ نَبِيضٌ, (A, TA,) (tropical:) A heart that is sharp in intellect, clever, acute, (A, Sgh, K,) and very brisk or lively or sprightly or prompt. (A, TA.) مَا بِهِ حَبَضٌ وَلَا نَبَضٌ, (IDrd, S, K,) and حَبْضٌ

↓ ولا نَبْضٌ, (Sgh,) There is not in him any motion: (S, Sgh, K:) or sound, or voice, nor pulsation: (AA, in S, art. حبض:) or strength: (IDrd:) with fet-h to the second letter, only used in a negative phrase: (L:) As says, I know not what is الحَبَضُ, (S in art. حبض,) or الحَبْضُ. (TA.) b2: فُؤَادٌ نَبَضٌ: see نَبْضٌ.

نَبِضٌ: see نَبْضٌ.

نَبْضَةٌ [A single pulsation]. You say, رَأَيْتُ وَمْضَةَ بَرْقٍ كَنَبْضَةِ عِرْقٍ [I saw a slight flash of lightning, like a single pulsation of an artery]. (A, TA.) نَبِيضٌ: see نَبْضٌ.

نَابِضٌ [part. n. of 1]. You say, مَا دَامَ فِىَّ عُرَيْقٌ نَابِضٌ لَمْ أَخْذُلْكَ [As long as there remains in me a little artery pulsing, I will not abstain, or hold back, from aiding thee]; i. e., (tropical:) as long as I remain alive. (A, TA.) b2: [Hence,] (tropical:) Anger. (Lth, A, K.) See 1, where an ex. is given. b3: (assumed tropical:) An archer: lit. one who has a twanging. (Mgh.) مَنْبِضُ القَلْبِ The place where one sees the heart pulsing, (TA,) or in motion; (A, K;) and where one perceives the gentle sound of its [pulsation, or] motion. (A, O.) You say, جَسَّ الطَّبِيبُ مَنْبِضَهُ [The physician felt his place of pulsation], and مَنَابِضَهُمْ [their places of pulsation]. (A, TA.) b2: مَا يُعْرَفُ لَهُ مَنْبِضُ عَسَلَةٍ means (tropical:) He has no origin [known]; like مَضْرِبُ عَسَلَةٍ; (A, TA;) nor any people [to whom he belongs]. (TA.) وَجَعٌ مُنْبِضٌ [A pain causing pulsation, or throbbing]. (L, TA.) مِنْبَضٌ, (S, K,) or ↓ مِنْبَضَةٌ, (A,) The wooden mallet with which one separates and loosens cotton by striking with it the string of a bow; syn. مِنْدَفٌ, like مِحْبَضٌ; (S;) or مِنْدَفَةٌ: (A, K:) مَنَابِضُ is said by Kh to occur in poetry as [its pl.,] meaning مَنَادِفُ. (S.) مِنْبَضَةٌ: see what next precedes.

نشط

1 نَشِطَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. نَشَاطٌ (S, Msb, K) and مَنْشَطٌ, (TA,) He (a man, S, TA, and a beast of carriage, TA,) was, or became, brisk, lively, sprightly, frisky, active, agile, prompt, and quick; syn. خَفَّ, (Msb, TA,) and أَسْرَعَ; (Msb;) contr. of كَسِلَ; (TA;) or pleased, cheerful, happy, or willing; to do work, &c.; (Lth, K;) or by reason of his work; (Msb;) as also ↓ تنشّط, (S, * K,) لِأَمْرِ كَذَا [to do, or on account of, such a thing, or such an affair]. (S, TA.) You say also, نَشِطَ إِلَيْهِ [He betook himself to him, or it, with briskness, liveliness, sprightliness, or the like]. (TA.) b2: [Hence, app.,] نَشِطَتِ الدَّابَّةُ The beast of carriage became fat. (K.) A2: نَشَطَ, aor. ـِ inf. n. نَشْطٌ, (S, K, TA,) He went forth from a place: (K:) he passed, or crossed, from one country or the like to another: (TA:) said, for instance, of a wild bull: (AO, IDrd, S, K:) and in like manner, a star, [meaning a planet,] from one sign of the zodiac to another. (S, K.) And نَشَطَتِ الإِبِلُ, aor. ـِ inf. n. نَشْطٌ, The camels went, either in a right direction or otherwise. (TA.) b2: [Hence,] الهُمُومُ تَنْشِطُ بِصَاحِبِهَا (S, TA) (assumed tropical:) Griefs, or disquietudes of mind, lead forth him who has them [from place to place]. (TA.) Himyán Ibn-Koháfeh says, أَمْسَتَ هُمُومِى تَنْشِطُ المَنَاشِطَا

أَلشَّأْمَ بِى طَوْرًا وَطَوْرًا وَاسِطَا [meaning تنشط بى الى المناشط, i. e., (assumed tropical:) My griefs, or disquietudes of mind, became such as to lead me forth to the places to which one goes forth, to Syria at one time, and at one time to Wásit]. (S.) You say also of a road, يَنْشِطُ مِنَ الطَّرِيقِ الأَعْظَمِ (tropical:) It goes forth from the main road, to the right, and to the left. (Lth, K. *) And نَشطَ بِهِمْ طَرِيقٌ فَأَخَذُوهُ (tropical:) [A road led them forth, and they took it]. (TA.) A3: نَشَطَ الدَّلْوَ, (S, K,) aor. ـِ (K, * TA) and نَشُطَ, (TA,) [inf. n. نَشْطٌ,] He pulled out the bucket, (S, K,) or pulled it up, (TA,) from the well, (S, TA,) without a pulley. (S, K.) b2: And hence, المَلَائِكَةُ تَنْشِطُ الأَرْوَاحَ (assumed tropical:) The angels draw forth the souls like as the bucket is drawn forth from the well: (Zj:) and تَنْشِطُ نَفْسَ المُؤْمِنِ بِقَبْضِهَا (Fr, L, K [in the CK تَقْبِضُها]) which means, (K,) accord. to Ibn-'Aráfeh, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) they loose the soul of the believer gently. (K, TA.) b3: [Hence also,] one says of a she-camel, [likening the motion of her fore legs to that of the arms of a man pulling up a bucket from a well without a pulley,] حَسُنَ مَا نَشَطَتِ السَّيْرَ, meaning (assumed tropical:) Good was her wide stretching out of her fore legs (As, S, TA) in her going along. (TA.) A4: نَشَطَ الحَبْلَ, (S, Msb, K,) aor. ـُ (K, and so in a copy of the S,) or ـِ (Msb, and so in a copy of the S,) inf. n. نَشْطٌ, (S, Msb,) He tied the cord, or rope so as to form a knot; (K, TA;) as also ↓ نشَّطهُ, (K,) inf. n. تَنْشِيطٌ: (TA:) or he tied it in a knot such as is termed أُنْشُوطَة; (Az, S, Msb;) as also ↓ the latter verb: (Ham, p. 742:) and نَشَطَ العُقْدَةَ he tied the knot so as to form what is thus termed: (Mgh:) and نَشَطَ الأُنْشُوطَةَ he tied the knot thus termed. (TA.) [See also 4.]

A5: نَشَطَ, and نُشِطَ مِنْ عِقَالٍ: see 4.2 نشّطهُ, inf. n. َتَنْشِيطٌ, He, or it, rendered him نَشِيط [i. e. brisk, lively, sprightly, frisky, &c.]; (K;) as also ↓ انشطهُ. (Yaakoob, K.) A2: See also 1, last sentence but one, in two places; and see 4.4 انشط, said of a man, (K, * TA,) or of a company of men, (S,) His, or their, beasts, (S, K,) or family, (K,) were, or became, in a state of نَشَاط [i. e. briskness, liveliness, sprightliness, friskiness, &c.: see 1]. (S, K.) A2: As a trans. v.: see 2. b2: [Hence, app.,] It (herbage) rendered a beast fat. (S, TA.) A3: He loosed, untied, or undid, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) a cord, or rope, (S, K,) or a knot such as is termed أُنْشُوطَة; (Mgh, Msb,) as also ↓ انتشط; and ↓ نَشَطَ; (Mgh;) and in like manner, the bond termed عِقَال; (Msb;) and so, perhaps, ↓ نشّط: (Ham, p. 165:) he pulled a cord, or rope, until, or so that, it became loosed, untied, or undone; (TA;) as also ↓ انتشط: (S, K, TA,) he caused the عِقَال to become loosed, untied, or undone, by pulling its انشوطة: (K, * TA:) he loosed, untied, or undid, a knot by a single pull. (TA.) You say also, انشط البَعِيرَ He loosed, untied, or undid, the انشوطة [of the عِقَال] of the camel. (TA.) And انشط البَعِيرَ مِنْ عِقَالِهِ He loosed the camel from his عِقَال. (Msb.) [And hence the saying,] كَأَنَّمَا أُنْشِطَ مِنْ عِقَالٍ As though he were loosed [from a bond such as is called عِقَال]: (S, * Mgh, TA:) a proverb, relating to an event's happening quickly; (Mgh;) or said of him who commences any work quickly; and of the sick when he recovers; and of a person who has swooned when he revives; and of a person sent to execute an affair, hastening his determination respecting it: (TA:) it is often related in a different manner, كانّما نُشِطَ من عقال; but this is not correct. (IAth, TA.) [But see above, in this paragraph; and see 1, where a similar meaning is assigned to the unaugmented verb.]

A4: He bound, or tied, him, or it, firmly, fastly, or strongly: so in the copies of the K; so that, if this be correct, the verb has two contr. significations. (TA.) A5: See also 8.5 تَنَشَّطَ see 1, first sentence. b2: تنشّطت فِى سَيْرِهَا She (a camel) hastened, or was quick, in her going, or pace. (S, K.) A2: تنشّط المَفَازَةَ (tropical:) He passed through, or over, the desert, (K, TA,) with swiftness, and with briskness, liveliness, sprightliness, or activity. (TA.) And تنشّطهُ (assumed tropical:) He traversed it quickly, or swiftly. (IB, in TA, voce هِرْجَابٌ.) And تنشّطت الأَرْضَ (assumed tropical:) She (a camel) traversed, or crossed, the land, like the نَاشِط in her quickness, or her aim, with briskness, liveliness, or sprightliness. (TA.) 8 انتشط It (a cord, or rope,) became loosed, untied, or undone. (Har, p. 361.) b2: (assumed tropical:) He (a man) became loosed from the tie of silence, (Har, p. 360.; Mgh,) and from that of impotence. (Mgh [in which a doubt is expressed as to its being of classical authority].) A2: As a trans. v.: see 4, in two places. b2: He pulled, or drew, a thing. (TA.) b3: He seized a thing, took it hastily, or snatched it unawares: a meaning wrongly assigned in the K to ↓ انشط. (TA.) You say also, انتشط المَالُ المَرْعَى, (Sh, K,) and الكَلَأَ, (Sh,) The camels, or sheep or goats, pulled up, or out, the herbage, with the teeth. (Sh, K.) b4: He scaled a fish; (K;) as though meaning he pulled off the scales thereof. (TA.) نُشُطٌ [app. a pl. of ↓ نَاشِطٌ] Persons untwisting cords, or ropes, in the time of undoing them for the purpose of their being twisted or plaited a second time. (IAar, K.) نَشْطَةٌ as used in the following saying, (Mgh,) الشُّفْعَةُ كَنَشْطَةِ العِقَالِ The right termed شفعة is like the loosing of the bond called عقال, in respect of the speediness with which it becomes of no effect, (Mgh, Msb,) by delay, (Msb,) is of the measure فَعْلَةٌ from أَنْشَطَ, or from نَشَطَ in the sense of انشط; or the meaning is, like the tying of the عقال; i. e., it is of short duration; but the former explanation is the more apparently right. (Mgh.) بِئْرٌ نَشُوطٌ A well from which the bucket does not come forth until it is much pulled, (As, S, TA,) by reason of the distance of its bottom; (TA;) contr. of بِئْرٌ أَنْشَاطٌ. (K.) نَشِيطٌ (S, Msb, K) Brisk, lively, sprightly, active, agile, prompt, and quick; (Msb;) or pleased, cheerful, happy, or willing; to do work &c.; as also ↓ نَاشِطٌ; (K;) [see نَشِطَ;] applied to a man; (S, TA;) and to a beast of carriage; fem. with ة: (TA:) pl. نِشَاطٌ (Har, p. 591) [and نَشَاطَى]. b2: A man (TA) whose family, or beasts, are in a state of نَشَاط [i. e. briskness, liveliness, sprightliness, &c.: see 1]; as also ↓ مُنْشِطٌ. (K, TA.) نَاشِطٌ: see نَشِيطٌ. b2: In a verse of Et-Tirimmáh, [see استطرب,] نَاشِطًا is used for شَوْقًا نَازِعًا [By reason of yearning, or longing, desire]. (K, in art. دد.) A2: A wild bull going forth from land to land, (S, K,) or from country to country. (TA.) b2: Hence, (S,) النَّاشِطَاتُ, as used in the Kur, lxxix. 2, meaning The stars [or planets] going forth from one sign of the zodiac to another: (S, K:) or it means the stars that rise, then set: (A'Obeyd, TA:) or the angels that draw forth the souls like as the bucket is drawn forth from the well: (Zj, TA:) or the angels that loose the soul of the believer gently: (Fr, * Ibn-'Arafeh, K:) or the believing souls that are brisk, lively, sprightly, or active, at death: (K, * TA:) or, as some say, [too fancifully,] the angels that ratify events; from نَشَطَ العُقْدَةَ, q. v.; and as this signifies the tying of a knot which is easily undone, the thing's easiness to them is thus notified. (TA.) b3: (tropical:) A road going forth from the main road, to the right, and to the left: (Lth, K *:) pl. نَوَاشِطُ: (TA:) which latter word is applied in like manner to water-courses (K, TA) going forth from the main water-course to the right and left. (TA.) A3: See also نُشُطٌ.

بِئْرٌ أَنْشَاطٌ, (K, and so in a copy of the S, as on the authority of As, but in another copy of the S the ا is without any vowel,) and بِئْرٌ إِنْشَاطٌ, (K, and, accord. to the TA, on the authority of As, and mentioned by IB on the authority of A'Obeyd,) A well of little depth, from which the bucket comes forth by means of a single pull: (As, S, K:) the latter may be defended on the ground of considering إِنْشَاطٌ as originally an inf. n., of أَنْشَطَ signifying “ he loosed, untied, or undid,” a knot “ by a single pull. ” (TA.) أُنْشُوطَةٌ [A knot tied with a bow, or with a double bow, so as to form a kind of slip-knot; whence, in modern vulgar Arabic, عُقْدَة وَشُنَيْطَة, applied to such a tie; and شُنَيْطَة, applied to a simple slip-knot;] a knot, or tie, which easily becomes undone, or untied, like that of the running band of a pair of drawers; (S, Mgh, K;) a knot, or tie, which becomes undone when one of its two ends is pulled. (Msb, TA.) You say, مَا عِقَالُكَ بِأُنْسُوطَةٍ, meaning (assumed tropical:) Thy love, or affection, is not weak, or frail. (S.) مَنْشَطٌ A thing on account of which, or to do which, one is brisk, lively, sprightly, or active; or pleased, cheerful, or happy; and which one likes, or prefers, to do: opposed to مَكْرَهٌ. (TA.) مَنْشِطٌ A place to which one goes forth: pl. مَنَاشِطُ. See an ex. of the pl., voce نَشَطَ.]

مُنْشِطٌ: see نَشِيطٌ.

مِنْشَطٌ Having much نَشَاط [i. e. briskness, liveliness, sprightliness, friskiness, &c.: see 1]. (TA.) نشع, &c

نقط

1 نَقَطَ الكِتَابَ, (S, Msb,) or الحَرْفَ, (K,) aor. ـُ inf. n. نَقْطٌ, (S, Msb,) He pointed, or dotted. [the book, or writing, or] the letter, or word, with the diacritical points or point; and with the syllabical points or point, by which are shown the pronunciation and division of syllables and the desinential syntax; syn. أَعْجَمَهُ; as also ↓ نقّطهُ: (K:) and المصَاحِفَ ↓ نقّط, inf. n. تَنْقِيطٌ, [he so pointed the copies of the Kur-án.] (S.) 2 نَقَّطَ see 1, in two places. b2: نفّط ثَوْبَهُ بِالزَّعْفَرَانِ وَالمِدَادِ, inf. n. تَنْقِيطٌ, [He made speaks, or small spots, upon his garment, with saffron, and ink;] (Lth;) and نقّط عَلَى ثَوْبِهِ [signifies the same]. (A, TA, in art. رقط.) And نَقَّطَتِ المَرْأَةُ وَجْهَهَا وَخَدَّهَا بِالسَّوَادِ تَتَحَسَّنُ بِذٰلِكَ [The woman made specks, or small spots, upon her face, with black, beautifying herself thereby]. (TA.) 5 تنقّط [quasi-pass. of 2; It became pointed, &c. b2: And hence,] (tropical:) It (a place) became seattered with spots, or portions, of herbage. (K, TA.) نَقْطَةٌ inf. n. un. of 1, [A single act of pointing, &c.] (Msb.) نُقْطَةٌ A diacritical point of a letter or word: a syllabical point thereof: see 1:] (K:) [a point, dot, speck, speckle, or small spot: a mathematical point; i. e.] the extremity of a line: (TA:) pl. نُقَطٌ (S, Msb, K,) and نِقَاطٌ. (Az, S, K.) Hence, one says, مَا اخْتَلَفَا فى نُقْطَةٍ They two did not differ respecting so small a thing as a point of a letter or word. (TA.) And [hence] the vulgar say, when they admire one, هُوَ نُقْطَةٌ فِى مُصْحَفٍ (assumed tropical:) [He is like a point, or stop, in a copy of the Kur-án; because the stops in the Kur-án are generally ornamented, and often very beautifully, with gold and colours]. (TA.) b2: (assumed tropical:) [Any very small thing, that may be likened to a point, dot, or speck. Hence,] 'Alee is related to have said, العِلْمُ نُقْطَةٌ إِنَّمَا كَتَّرَهَا الجَاهِلُونَ (assumed tropical:) [Science, or knowledge, is a very small thing: only the ignorant have made it to be much]. (TA.) And you say, أَعْطَاهُ نُقْطَةً مِنْ عَسَلٍ (tropical:) [He gave him a drop, or very small quantity, of honey]. (TA.) b3: (tropical:) [A portion of a thing, or some of a number of things, in a separate, or scattered, state, here and there] You say, مَا بَقِىَ مِنْ

أَمْوَالِهِمْ إِلَّا نُقْطَةَ (tropical:) There remained not of their possessions [aught] save some palm-trees and a portion of seed-produce here and there. (IAar, TA) And فِى الأَرْضِ نِقَاطٌ مِنَ الكَلَإِ, and نُقَطٌ مِنْهُ. (tropical:) In the land are scattered spots, or portions, of herbage. (K, * TA.) b4: (assumed tropical:) A thing: an affair; a matter: a case; an event; an action. (TA.) نُقَيْطَةٌ dim. of نُقْطَةٌ. (TA.) نَقَّاطٌ One who points copies of the Kur-án &c.; i. e. adds the diacritical and other points. (S, * TA.) كِتَابٌ مَنْقُوطٌ (Msb, TA) A book, or writing, pointed with the diacritical, or other, points. (TA.)