ملك

1 مَلَكَهُ He possessed it, or owned it, [and particularly] with ability to have it to himself exclusively: (M, K:) [and he exercised, or had, authority over it; for] مُلْكٌ signifies the exercise of authority to command and to forbid in respect of the generality of a people [&c.]: (Er-Rághib, TA:) or the having possession and command or authority: and the having power to exercise command or authority. (TA.) مِلْكٌ, as inf. n. of مَلَكَهُ meaning He possessed it, is more common than مَلْكٌ and مُلْكٌ. b2: [مَلَكَ أَمْرَهُ He had the ruling, or ordering, of his affair, or case] and مَلَكَ عَلَى النَّاسِ أَمْرَهُمْ He had the dominion, or sovereignty, or ruling power, over the people. (Msb.) A2: See 4.2 مَلَّكَهُ He made him to possess a thing; (S, K;) as also ↓ أَمْلَكَهُ. (K.) b2: He made him king; or made him to have dominion, kingship, or rule. (Msb, K.) b3: يُمَلَّكَ الرَّجُلُ أَمْرَهُ [The man shall be made to have the ruling, or ordering, of his affair, or affairs, or case]. (Sh, T in art. دين.) 3 مَالكَ أُمَّهُ : see شَدَنَ.4 مَلَكَ ↓ العَجِينَ and أَمْلَكَهُ He kneaded well the dough. (S, K.) A2: See 2.5 تَمَلَّكَ He took possession of a thing [absolutely or] by force. (Msb.) 6 مَا تَمَالَكَ أَنْ فَعَلَ He could not restrain himself from doing; (Mgh, Msb;) syn. مَا تَمَاسَكَ [q. v.] (S.) مِلْكٌ : its pl. أَمْلاَكٌ, in common conventional language means [or rather includes] Houses and lands. (TA.) See its pl. pl. أَمْلاَكَاتٌ.

مُلْكٌ Dominion; sovereignty; kingship; rule; mastership; ownership; possession; right of possession; authority; sway. b2: مُلْكُ اللّٰهِ God's world of spirits; or invisible world. (TA, art. شهد.) b3: [مُلْكٌ (when distinguished from ملكوت) The dominion that is apparent; as that of the earth.]

مَلَكٌ An angel: see مَأْلَكٌ. b2: مَلَكٌ Water. (S.) مَلِكُ الأَمْلاَكِ The king of kings. See أَخْنَعُ.

مَلاَكُ الأَمْرِ and ↓ مِلاَكُهُ That whereby the thing &c. subsists: (S, KL:) its قَوَام [q. v.] by whom, or by which, it is ruled, or ordered: (K:) its foundation; syn. أَصْلُهُ: (KL:) its support; that upon which it rests: (T, TA:) it may be rendered the cause, or means, of the subsistence of the thing; &c.

مِلَاكٌ see مَلاَكٌ.

مَالِكٌ : see رَبٌّ. b2: مَالِكُ الأَمْرِ The possessor of command, or rule. b3: المَالِكُ الكَبِيرُ The Great Master, or Owner; i. e., God; in contradistinction to المَالِكُ الصَّغِيرُ the little master, or owner; i. e., the human owner of a slave, &c. b4: مَالِكٌ الحَزِينُ: (so in one copy of the S: in another, and the MA, and Kzw, مَالِكُ الحَزِينِ:) [The heron: or a species thereof] in Pers\. بوتيمار; (MA;) a certain bird, long in the neck and legs, called in Pers\.

بوتيمار. (Kzw:) see سَبَيْطَرٌ b5: أَبُو مَالِكٍ Hunger. (MF, art. جبر.) See also أَبٌ.

أَمْلَاكَاتٌ pl. of أَمْلاَكٌ pl. of مِلْكٌ Goods, or chattels, of a bride: see أَغْنَآءٌ in art. غنى.

مَلَكَةٌ [A faculty.] A quality firmly rooted in the mind. (KT.) مَلَكُوتُ اللّٰهِ God's world of corporeal beings. (TA, art. شهد.) Generally The kingdom of God.

مِلِيك is also syn. with مَمْلُوكٌ; this is meant in the TA where it is said that مُلَكَآءُ in the saying لَبَا مُلُوكٌ وَلَيْسَ لَبَا مُلَكَآءُ [We have kings of bees, but we have not slaves] is pl. of المَلِيكُ from المَمْلُوكُ: it is also said in art. رغو in the TA, (see 4 in that art.) that مَلِيكَةٌ is syn. with مَمْلُوكَةٌ.

أَمْلَكُ : see شَرْطٌ. and also أَمْلَأُ, and أَرَبٌ. b2: مَا أَمْلِكُ شَدًّا وَلاَ إِرْخَآءً: see شَدَّ.

مَمْلَكَةٌ A kingdom, or realm. (S.) مَمْلُوكٌ A slave; a bondman; syn. عَبْدٌ, (S,) or رَقِيقٌ. (TA.) In the present day, specially, A white male slave. (TA.) See مَرْبُوبٌ.

نس

أ1 نَسَأَ, aor. ـَ (S, K,) inf. n. نَسْءٌ; (S;) and ↓ نسّأ, (S, K,) inf. n. تَنْسِئَةٌ, (S,) He chid (S, K) a camel (S) &c. (L) he urged, or drove, it. (S, K.) b2: نَسَأَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. نَسْءٌ (S, K) and مَنْسَأَةٌ (K) [and نَسُوْءٌ, mentioned in the TA, art. وضأ;] and ↓ انسأ; (S, K;) He postponed, or delayed, a thing. (S, K. Explained in the S, K by أَخَّرَ, and in the K by كَلَأَ, also, both of which words, accord. to the TA, are syn.) [See an ex. of the use of انسا, without a final ء, in art. عقب, voce عُقْبَة.] b3: نَسَأَ اللّٰهُ فى أَجَلِهِ, and اللّٰهُ أَجَلَهُ ↓ انسأ, God postponed the end of his life; i. e., prolonged his life: (so in the Fs:) accord. to IKtt, نسأ اللّٰهُ اجله, and انسأ ↓ فى اجله. (TA.) All of these four modes of expression are allowable: (MF:) as also نسّأ ↓ اللّٰه اجله: (Z:) and نَسَأَهُ اللّٰه فى اجله, and ↓ أَنْسَأَهُ اللّٰه أَجَلَهُ. (As, S.) b4: أُنْسِئَ لَهُ فِى عُمُرِهِ, His life was prolonged. (TA, from a trad.) b5: نَسَأَ الإِبِلَ, inf. n. نَسْءٌ, He delayed or deferred the watering of the camels; or kept them from water beyond the accustomed time. (L.) b6: نَسَأَ فِى

ظِمْءِ الإِبِلِ, (S, K,) inf. n. نَسْءٌ, (S,) He increased the time between the two drinkings, or waterings, of the camels, by a day: (A:) or by a day, or two days, or more. (A, L, K.) b7: نَسَأَ الإِبِلَ عَنِ الحَوْضِ He kept back, or put back, or drove back, the camels from the tank, or cistern. (S, L, K. *) b8: مَالَهُ نَسَأَهُ اللّٰهُ What aileth him! May God render him ignominious! (Kr, L,) or put him backward! (L.) Whom he puts backward, He renders ignominious. (L.) b9: نَسَأَ, inf. n. نَسْءٌ, He sold a thing with postponement of the payment; he sold it upon credit. (TA.) b10: نَسَأَهُ البَيْعَ, and البيع ↓ انسأَهُ, He made the sale to him to be on credit. (S, K.) المَبِيعَ ↓ انسأَهُ He postponed for him the period of the payment of the price of the thing sold. (A.) b11: نَسَأَ عَنْهُ دَيْنَهُ, inf. n. نَسَآءٌ; (Akh, S;) and دينه ↓ انسأهُ, (S, * K,) and انسأهُ ↓ الدَّيْنَ ; (Akh, S;) He postponed for him the period of the payment of his debt. (S, TA.) b12: نُسِئَتْ, a verb like عُنِىَ, [i. e., pass. in form, but neut. in sense,] aor. ـْ inf. n. نَسْءٌ, Her menstrual discharge was later than its usual time, and it was therefore hoped that she was pregnant: (Kh, S, K:) or her menstrual discharge was later than its usual time, and her pregnancy commenced: (TA:) or she began to be pregnant: (As, S:) or she conceived. (As.) A2: نَسَأَ اللَّبَنَ, (S, K, *) inf. n. نَسْءٌ, (TA,) He mixed the milk with water. (S, K. *) b2: نسأ لَهُ اللَّبَنَ, and نسأهُ اللّبن, He mixed the milk with water for him. (TA.) b3: نَسَأَهُ He gave him to drink نَسْء, q. v.; (K;) i. e. wine, or milk. (TA.) b4: نَسَأَتْ She (an antelope) licked her young one just after its birth. (K.) A3: نَسَأَ, (S, K,) inf. n. نَسْءٌ, (S,) It (a camel, sheep, &c.,) became fat: (TA:) or began to grow fat; when its soft hair (وَبَر), after falling off, began to grow again. (S, K.) 2 نَسَّاَ see 1.4 أَنْسَاَ see 1. b2: انسأهُ He granted him a delay of payment, or granted him credit, in a sale, or in the case of a debt. (A.) b3: أَنْسَأْتُ سُرْبَتِى I made my way to lead me far off. (S.) [See art. سرب.]5 تَنَسَّاَ see 8.8 انتسأ It was postponed, or delayed; syn. تَأَخَّرَ. (A.) b2: انتسأ He (a camel, S,) went far off in the pasture. (S, K.) b3: It (a party of people) went far off. (TA.) b4: انتسأ عَنْهُ He retired, or withdrew far off, from him or it. (S.) انْتَسُوا and تَنَسَّوا occur in two readings of a trad., for انْتَسِئُوا, (which is the correct reading,) in this sense. (TA.) [Hence it appears that ↓ تنسّأ, accord. to some, also signifies he retired, &c.]10 استنسأهُ He asked him to postpone or to grant him a delay in, the payment of his debt. (S, K.) [See also 1.] b2: استنسأهُ البَيْعَ He asked him to make the sale to be on credit, or for payment at a future period. (A.) b3: استنسأ غَرِيمَهُ He asked his creditor to grant him a delay in the payment of his debt. (A.) نَسْءٌ and ↓ نُسْءٌ and ↓ نِسْءٌ A woman who is supposed to be pregnant; (K;) as also ↓ نَسُوْءٌ (A, K) and ↓ نُسُوْءٌ: (A:) or in whom pregnancy has appeared: (K:) or, نَسْءٌ (K) and ↓ نَسُوْءٌ, (TA,) as also ↓ نَسِىْءٌ, accord. to J and IM, but this is rejected by F, (TA,) a woman whose menstrual discharge is later than its usual time, and who is therefore hoped to be pregnant: (S, K:) pl. [of نسء] أَنْسَآءٌ and نُسُوْءٌ: and نِسْوَةٌ نِسَآءٌ is also said; and sometimes the sing. (نَسْءٌ), being originally an inf. n., is used as a pl. (TA.) A2: نَسْءٌ and ↓ نَسِىْءٌ Thin, watery, milk: (K:) or milk mixed with water. (T, S.) [See 1.] b2: Also, both words, (TA,) or the former only; (K, MF;) but ↓ نِسِىْءٌ is quoted in this sense, from IAar, who is said to have pronounced it thus, erroneously, for نَسِىْءٌ; (TA;) Wine; (IAar;) drink that dispels the reason. (K.) A3: نَسْءٌ Fatness: or its commencement; (K;) its completeness, (consequent upon eating dry food, being called إِقْتِرَارٌ. (S.) b2: جَرَى النَّسْءُ فى

الدَّوَابِّ, (S,) or مَارَ, (TA,) [Fatness, or its commencement, ran through the beasts of carriage].

نِسْءٌ One who mixes, or converses, with others: ex. هُوَ نِسْءُ نِسَآءٍ He is one who mixes, or converses, with women. (K.) b2: See نَسْءٌ.

نُسْءٌ and نَسُوْءٌ and نُسُوْءٌ and نَسِىْءٌ and نِسِىْءٌ: see نَسْءٌ.

نَسَآءٌ Length of life. (Akh, S, K.) b2: The Fakeeh of the Arabs [El-Hárith Ibn-Keledeh, as said in the Mz, close of 39th نوع, where the following is quoted,] says, مَنْ سَرَّهُ النَّسَآءُ وَلَا نَسَآءَ فَلْيُخَفِّفِ الرِّدَآءَ وَلْيُبَاكِرِ الغَدَآءَ وَلْيُؤَخِّرِ العَشَآءَ وَلْيُقِلَّ غِشْيَانَ النِّسَآءِ [Let him whom length of life rejoiceth (but there is no long endurance in life) lighten his debts, and make his morning-meal early, and delay his evening-meal, and take little enjoyment in women]: (S, * TA:) الرداء here means debt. (T, M, TA, in art. ردى, where this saying is cited with some variations.) نَسِىْءٌ, of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ, (S,) A month which the Arabs, in the time of paganism, postponed: (K:) the doing of which is forbidden in the Kur, ix. 37. (S.) b2: Also, as an inf. n. of نَسَأَ, (which it is also said to be in the L,) The postponing of a month: i. e., the postponing of the sacredness of a month; transferring it to another month. When the Arabs returned from Mina, [after the accomplishment of the pilgrimage,] it was customary for a man of the tribe of Kináneh to arise and say, أَنَا الَّذِى لَا يُرَدُّ لِى قَضَآءٌ [“ I am he whose decree is not to be rejected ”]; (S;) or إِنِّى لَا أُحَابُ وَلَا أُعَابُ وَلَا يُرَدُّ قَوْلِى, or ولا يردّ مَا قَضَيْتُ بِهِ; [“ Verily I am not to be accused of a sin, nor am I to be charged with a fault, nor is my saying, (or decree,) to be rejected; ”] (TA;) whereupon they would say, أَنْسِئْنَا شَهْرًا [“ Postpone for us a month ”]; i. e., “ Postpone for us the sacredness of El-Mo- harram, and transfer it to Safar: ” for they disliked that three months during which they might not make predatory expeditions should come upon them consecutively, as their subsistence was obtained by such expeditions: so he made ElMoharram free from restriction to them. (S.) [But this, as appears from what is said in the Kur, ix. 37, was not done every year.] The tribes of Teiyi and Khath'am did not observe the sacred months; therefore the نَاسِئ (or postponer) proclaimed it lawful to slay them therein, when they were aggressors. (TA.) b3: [The term نَسِىْء appears also to have been applied to The postponement of the time of the pilgrimage; which was another custom of the Pagan Arabs, mentioned under this word in the TA.] The Arabs, liking that the day of their return from pilgrimage should always be at one season of the year, postponed it every year eleven days; at the same time keeping sacred the two months in which the pilgrimage took place, and the month next after those two, and also the month of Rejeb, at whatever season this fell. (TA.) [For the same purpose, at one time, they used to intercalate a month in the third and sixth and eight of every eight years. See Kur, ix. 36, where the prohibition of this custom is implied; and Sale's Prel. Disc., § vii.]. b4: See نَسْءٌ. b5: نَسِىْءٌ (K, TA) and ↓ نَسِيْئَةٌ and ↓ نُسْأَةٌ, (S, K,) like كُلْأَةٌ, (S,) A postponement, or delay, as to the time of the payment of a debt, or of the price of a thing sold, &c. (S, K, TA.) The first is a subst.; (K;) and also an inf. n.; (L;) [and each of the others seems to be sometimes used as such]. b6: ↓ بَاعَهُ بِنَسِيْئَةٍ, and ↓ بِنُسْأَةٍ, (as also بِكُلْأَةٍ, S,) He sold it on credit; for payment to be made at a future period. (S, K, TA.) نَسِيْئَةٌ: see نَسِىْءٌ. b2: Also, A debt of which the payment is deferred by the creditor to a future period. (TA.) b3: A sale upon credit, in which the payment is deferred to a certain, or definite, period. (TA.) نَاسِئٌ, pl. نَسَأَةٌ (S) and نَاسِئُونَ, (TA,) One whose office it was to perform the act called نَسِىْء; i. e., the postponing of a month: (S, TA:) he was also called قَلَمَّسٌ, pl. قَلَامِسُ. (TA.) A2: نَاسِئٌ Anything fat: or beginning to grow fat: in the K it is said, كُلُّ نَاسِئٍ سَمِينٌ: in the L, كلّ سمين ناسئ, which is more proper. (TA.) مَنْسَأَةٌ: see 1. b2: صِلَةُ الرَّحِمِ مَثْرَاةٌ فِى المَالِ مَنْسَأَةٌ فِى الأَثَرِ [Union with kindred is a means of multiplying wealth, a means of prolonging one's memorial]. (TA, from a trad.) A2: See مِنْسَأَةٌ.

مِنْسَأَةٌ (S, K) and ↓ مَنْسَأَةٌ, (K,) and also without ء, (S, K,) A staff, or stick: so called because a beast is urged or driven with it: (K:) a pastor's great staff. (TA.) For مِنْسَأَتَهُ, in the Kur, xxxiv. 13, some read مِنْ سَأَتِهِ; i. e. “ from, or of, the end of his staff; ” سأَة originally signifying the “ bent part at each end of a bow; ” (Fr, TA, &c.;) and being here used tropically. (TA.) This reading is disapproved by the author of the K. but is supported by good authorities. (TA.) مُنْتَسَأٌ An interval; a distance; a space. (S.) إِنَّ لِى عَنْكَ لَمُنْتَسَأٌ Verily I am far from thee. (S.)

ندب

1 نَدَبَهُ لِلْأَمْرِ, (S,) or إِلَى الأَمْرِ, aor. ـُ (Msb, K,) inf. n. نَدْبٌ; (Msb, TA;) and ↓ انتدبه للامر; this latter verb being used transitively as well as intransitively; (Msb;) He, or it, called, summoned, or invited, him to the thing; (S, Msb, K;) and instigated, incited, or urged, him to it: (K.) i. e., to war, succour, &c. (TA.) b2: [You say,] مَا نَدَبَنِى إِلَى مَا فَعَلْتُ إِلَّا النُّصْحُ لَكَ (tropical:) Nothing incited me to do what I have done but sincerity towards thee. (TA.) b3: نَدَبَهُ إِلَى أَمْرٍ, [and لِأَمْرٍ; and ↓ ندّبهُ; (see مَنْدُوبٌ;)] He sent him to do a thing. (K.) b4: نَدَبَ المَيِّتَ, (aor.

نَدُبَ, inf. n. نَدْبٌ, S,) (tropical:) He wailed for, wept for, or deplored the loss of, the dead man, and enumerated his good qualities and actions. (S, K.) نَدَبُتِ الميّب (tropical:) She (a wailing woman) called upon the dead man, praising him, and saying وَافُلَانَاهُ and وَاهَنَاهُ, Alas for such a one! and Alas for thee! (M) or she, as it were, called upon the dead man, enumerating his good qualities and actions, as though he heard her. (Msb.) It is said that the action is peculiarly that of women; and that the verb is derived from نَدَبَهُ, “he called him ” to do a thing; or from نَدَبٌ, “a scar,” because the wailer mentions the memorials of him who has gone; or perhaps from نَدْبٌ, “lightness, or activity. ” (MF.) A2: نَدِبَ, aor. ـَ (inf. n. نَدَبٌ, TA;) and ↓ اندب; It (a wound) had a hardened scar, such as is termed نَدَبَة. (K.) b2: نَدِبَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. نَدَبٌ [so accord. to the TA, agreeably with analogy; but in the CK and a MS. copy, نَدْبٌ; whence, and from the form of the latter of the two inf. ns. here following, it seems not improbable that the verb may be also written نَدَبَ;] and نُدُوبَةٌ and نُدُوبٌ, It (the back) had upon it scars, such as are termed نُدُوب. (K.) A3: نَدُبَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. نَدَابَةٌ, TA,) He was light, or active, (and quick, TA,) in the accomplishment of affairs, or wants: he was clever, ingenious, or acute in mind; excellent. (K.) 2 ندّب He took, got, or won, a bet, wager, or stake. (L.) b2: See 1.4 اندبهُ It (a wound) made, or left, a scar upon him. (K.) b2: He made a scar upon his skin. (TA.) b3: See بَدَبٌ. b4: اندب بِظَهْرِهِ, and فى ظهره, He, or it, left scars (نُدُوب) upon his back. (TA.) b5: أَنْدَبَتْهُ الحَاجَةُ إِنْدَابًا شَدِيدًا (tropical:) The thing, or want, made a severe impression upon him. (TA.) b6: اندب نَفْسَهُ, and بِنَفْسِهِ, He exposed himself to peril. (K.) A2: See 1.8 انتدب لَهُ He answered, or complied with, or obeyed, his call, summons, or invitation, (S,) and hastened to him, when called to war, succour, &c. (TA.) b2: انتدب اللّٰهُ لِمَنْ خَرَجَ فِى سَبِيلِهِ (occurring in a trad., TA,) God answereth his prayer for forgiveness [who goeth forth to fight for the sake of his religion]: or is surety, or guarantee, for him: or hasteneth to grant him a good recompense: or graciously maketh his completion of that [recompense] to him necessary and sure. (K.) b3: انتدبوا إِلَيْهِ They hastened to him, either at his call, or summons, or of their own accord. (TA.) b4: خُذْ مَا انتدب Take thou what is easily attainable; what offers itself without difficulty: (AA, K:) as also ما انتدم. (TA.) b5: See 1 A2: انتدب لَهُ He opposed him in his speech. (K.) A3: إِيَّاكُمْ وَرِضَاعَ السَّوْءِ فَإِنَّهُ لَا بُدَّ مِنْ أَنْ يَنْتَدِبَ Beware of giving your children to a bad nurse; for it [that is the evil consequence, or the bad qualities that will be acquired,] will inevitably appear some day. Said by 'Omar. (TA.) نَدْبٌ A man who is light, or active, (and quick, TA,) in the accomplishment of an affair, or a want; (S, K;) as also ↓ مِنْدَبَى (K) and ↓ مِنْدِبَى: (TA:) a man who, when he is sent to accomplish a great, or an important, affair, finds it light to him: (A:) clever, ingenious, or acute in mind; excellent: pl. نُدُوبٌ and نُدَبَاءُ: (K:) the former agreeable with analogy; the latter formed from the imaginary sing. نَدِيبٌ; like سُمَحَاءُ, pl. of سَمْحٌ. (TA.) b2: نَدْبٌ, as applied to a horse, Sharp-spirited; (Lth, S;) contr. of بَلِيدٌ (Lth) excellent. (TA.) b3: نَدْبٌ Lightness, or activity. (MF.) b4: أَرَاكَ نَدْبًا فِى الحَوَائِجِ [I see thee to be clever in accomplishing affairs, or wants. (A.) A2: See نَدَبٌ.

نَدَبٌ, (S, K,) and, by poetical licence, ↓ نَدْبٌ, (MF,) The scar, (S,) or scars, (K,) of a wound, (S, K,) not rising above the surrounding skin: (S:) accord. to the K, pl. نَدَبَةٌ [which is written in several MS. copies of the K نَدْبَةٌ; and so in the CK; but this, accord. to the TA, is incorrect;] but it is a coll. gen. n., of which the n. un. is نَدَبَةٌ, like as شَجَرَةٌ is that of شَجَرٌ: (MF:) pl. أَنْدَابٌ and نُدُوبٌ: (K:) the former of نَدَبٌ agreeably with analogy: the latter dev. with respect to analogy; or pl. of نَدْبٌ. (MF.) b2: نَدَبٌ is also applied, in a trad., to the (tropical:) Marks made by Moses' smiting the stone [from which, thereupon, water flowed forth]; these marks being thus likened to the scars of wounds. (TA.) b3: نَدَبٌ is also employed to signify (tropical:) Scars upon men's reputation. A poet says, قَوْمٌ سَأَتْرُكُ فِى أَعْرَاضِهِمْ نَدَبَا A people upon whose reputation I will leave scars, the effects of my satires. (TA.) A2: نَدَبٌ The direction in which one shoots an arrow or arrows: syn. رِشْقٌ. (So in the S and the CK and several MS. copies of the K: in other copies, رَشْقٌ The act of shooting an arrow or arrows. Both these readings are correct accord. to the TA. See below.) إِرْتَمَى نَدَبًا أَوْ نَدَبَيْنِ He shot an arrow or arrows in one direction or in two directions: syn. وَجْهًا أَوْ وَجْهَيْنِ. (TA.) b2: نَدَبُنَا يَوْمَ كَذَا (said by those who are to contend at a shooting-match, TA,) The day of our commencing shooting shall be such a day. (K.) This confirms the assertion in the TA, that نَدَبٌ is syn. with رَشْقٌ, as well as with رِشْقٌ. In the Turk. K, in the place of يَوْمَ ابْتِدَائِنَا, we find يوم انْتِدَابِنَا; and Freytag adopts the latter reading; but I find no other authority for it.]

b3: نَدَبٌ A bet, wager, stake, or thing wagered; what is staked at a shooting match, or a race, and taken by the winner: (S, * K, * L:) pl. أَنْدَابٌ. (Msb.) So in the following phrases. b4: بَيْنَهُمْ نَدَبٌ [Between them is a bet, or wager]. b5: أَقَامَ فُلَانٌ عَلَى نَدَبٍ [Such a one stood to a bet, wager, or stake]. (TA.) b6: 'Orweh says, أَيَهْلِكُ مُعْتَمٌّ وَزَيْدٌ وَلَمْ أُقِمْ عَلَى نَذَبٍ يَوْمًا وَلِى نَفْسُ مُخْطِرِ [Shall Moatemm and Zeyd perish, and I not stand to a stake, some day, when I have the soul of one who makes his life a stake to his adversary and sallies forth against him?] These two were his ancestors. (S.) Or, accord. to Az, who reads أَتَهْلِكُ, they were two tribes. (TA.) نَدِبٌ: see نَدِيبٌ.

نَدْبَةٌ [a fem. epithet] Any camel's foot, or hoof, [meaning any camel, or hoofed beast,] that does not remain in one state. (K.) نُدْبَةٌ, a subst., A call; a summons; an invitation to do a thing. (Msb.) b2: نُدْبَةٌ: a subst., (tropical:) The act of wailing for, weeping for, lamenting, or deploring the loss of, one who is dead, as described in the explanations of نَدَبَ الميّت, and بَدَبَتْه. (S, K, M, Msb.) b3: [هَآءُ النَّدْبَةِ The ه of lamentation].

A2: عَرَبِىٌّ نُدْبَةٌ An Arabian of chaste speech; (K;) eloquent. (TA.) نَدِيبٌ, (K,) or ↓ نَدِبٌ, (L,) A back having upon it scars, such as are termed نُدُوب: (L, K:) the former epithet is also applied in the same sense to a wound: and, so applied, is also explained by the word مَنْدُوبٌ: (TA:) [app. meaning that will be wailed for, or deplored; i. e., fatal].

نَادِبَةٌ (tropical:) A wailing woman; or one wailing for, weeping for, or deploring the loss of, one who is dead, as described in the explanations of نَدَبَ الميّت, and نَدَبَتْهُ: (M, Msb:) pl. نَوَادِبُ. (Msb.) النَّدَّابَتَانِ a name given to Two bad marks in horses. (TA.) مَنْدَبٌ A place to which one is called, summoned, or invited. Hence بَابُ المَنْدَبِ [The Strait Báb el-Mendeb, or The Strait of the Place of Summons:] so called because a certain king summoned a number of men to break through the mountain there, which originally opposed a barrier to the sea, in order to drown his enemy; and this they did, thus overwhelming with the waters many cities and towns with their inhabitants, and forming the sea which intervenes between El-Yemen and Abyssinia, and which extends to 'Eydháb and Kuseyr [&c.]. (Yaakoot.) This king was Alexander the Greek! (TA.) [It is probable that the appearance of the Strait gave rise to this story, and thus to its name: but it is also probable that the name may signify The Strait of the Place of Wailing for the Dead; as many perish who go forth from it.]

مَنْدَبَى and مِنْدِبَى: see نَدْبٌ.

مُنَدَّبٌ: see مَنْدُوبٌ.

مَنْدُوبٌ One sent to do a thing; a messenger; an envoy; an ambassador. (TA.) b2: فُلَانٌ مَنْدُوبٌ لِأَمْرٍ عَظِيمٍ, and لَهُ ↓ مُنَدَّبٌ, Such a one is sent to do a great thing; or to perform an important affair. (A.) b3: ↓ مُنَدَّبَةٌ an appellation, given by the people of Mekkeh to their Envoys, or ambassadors, to the palace of the Khaleefeh. (TA.) b4: مَنْدُوبٌ Desired; sought; sought after; as the name of a certain horse it is thus explained: from نَدَبٌ, as signifying “ a pledge that is given on the occasion of a race. ” (L.) b5: مَنْدُوبٌ: see نَدَبَ الميّت: A thing bewailed, [or complained of as painful,] with the exclamation of يَا or وَا. O! or Alas! (KT.) [The name of the thing thus bewailed, or complained of, has always an ا of prolongation and ه annexed to it, or the ا only.] b6: مَنْدُوبٌ, originally مَنْدُوبٌ إِلَيْهِ, A thing to the performance of which one is called, summoned, or invited: (Msb:) [hence,] approved: (K:) a signification verified by the doctors of practical law: (TA:) a thing the doing of which is more excellent than the leaving it undone, in the eye of the prescriber of the law, but which it is allowable to leave undone. (KT.) [Freytag, in quoting the original words, omits فِعْلُهُ before راجحًا.]

نجث

1 نَجَثَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. نَجْثٌ; and ↓ تنجّث; (TA;) and ↓ انتجث and ↓ استنجث; (K;) He extracted, drew out, or caused to come forth, (K, TA,) a thing: apparently more especially used with reference to what is talked of, or news, tidings, or the like. (TA.) b2: نَجَثَ عَنْهُ, aor. ـُ (and ↓ نجّث, inf. n. تَنْجيثٌ, TA,) and ↓ تنجّث; He searched, or sought, for, or after, it; inquired respecting it; sought for information respecting it; searched into, inquired into, investigated, scrutinized, or examined, it; i. e. an affair. (As.) b3: نَجَثَ قَبْرًا, [aor. ـُ inf. n. نَجْثٌ, He dug up the contents of a grave. (TA, form a trad.) A2: فُلَانٌ يَنْجُثُ بَنِى

فُلَانٍ, (inf. n. نَجْثٌ, L,) Such a one seduces, misleads, or leads astray, (يَسْتَغْوِى, Fr, S, K, or, accord. to A'Obeyd, يَسْتَعْوِى, with the unpointed ع, i. e., summons, by a cry, to sedition, or the like, S,) and implores aid of, the sons of such a one. (Fr, S, K.) [See 10 in art. عو.]5 تنجّث الأَخْبَارَ He searched, or sought, for, or after, news, or tidings. (TA.) [See also 1.]6 تَنَاجَثُوا [They revealed secrets, one to another]: تَنَاجُثٌ signifies the same as تَبَاثٌّ, (K,) and تَبَاحُثٌ. (TA.) b2: تَنَاجَثُوا [They searched, investigated, scrutinized, or examined, together]: تَنَاجُثٌ signifies the same as تَبَاحُثٌ. (TA.) نجى 8 انتجث He, or it, became inflated. (K.) b2: انتجث His fatness became apparent. (K.) One says انتحثت الشَّاةُ The ewe became fat. (TA.) b3: See also 1.10 استنجث شَيْئًا He exposed himself to a thing; or ventured upon it: (S, K, TA:) he devoted himself eagerly to it, and set about it, or commenced it. (TA.) b2: See also 1.

نُجْثٌ and ↓ نُجُثٌ A coat of mail; syn. دِرْعٌ. (K.) b2: Also, (or ↓ نُجُثٌ, S,) The pericardium; syn. غِلَافُ القَلْبِ: (S, K:) pl. أَنْجَاثٌ. (S.) b3: The house (بَيْت) of a man: pl. أَنْجَاثٌ. (K.) نَجِثٌ: see نَجَّاثٌ.

نُجُثٌ: see نُجْثٌ.

نَجِيثٌ (tropical:) A hidden secret. (K.) b2: See بَحِيثٌ. b3: بَدَا نَجِيثُ القَوْمِ The secret of the people, which they concealed, became apparent, or revealed. (Fr, S.) b4: أَتَانَا نَجِيثُ القَوْمِ The affair of the people, which they kept secret, came to our knowledge. (TA.) b5: See نَجِيْثَةٌ.

A2: نَجِيثٌ What attains its utmost aim (ما بلغ), of praise, or of an encomium. (TA.) b2: نَجِيثٌ A butt at which one shoots, or casts, consisting of earth collected together: (S, K:) or earth that is taken forth, and of which a butt is constructed, to shoot at, or cast at. (TA.) b3: أَمْرٌ لَهُ نَجِيثٌ An affair that has an evil end, conclusion, issue, or result. (TA.) A3: نَجِيثٌ A certain leguminous plant. (K.) A4: نَجِيثٌ Slow; tardy. (K.) [See لَبِيثٌ.]

نَجِيثَةٌ (and ↓ نَجِيثٌ, TA) The dust, or earth, that is taken forth, or dug out, from a well; (S;) i. q. نَبِيثَةٌ. (S, K.) b2: نَجيثَةٌ What has become apparent, or manifest, of that which is foul, or disgraceful, of news, tidings, or information. (S, K.) A2: نَجِيثَةٌ Endeavour; effort: (K:) as also نَكِيثَةٌ. (TA.) So in the phrase بُلِغَتْ نَجِيثَتُهُ [His utmost endeavour, or effort, was exerted, or employed]. (K.) نَجَّاثٌ and ↓ نَجِثٌ One who is in the habit of searching, or seeking, for, or after, things; of inquiring respecting them; of seeking for information respecting them; searching into, inquiring into, investigating, scrutinizing or examining, them: (K:) a man who searches after news, diligently, or with labour, or perseverance, or time after time, and elicits it; (As;) as also نَجَّاثٌ عَنِ الأَخْبَارِ. (TA.)

نفخ

1 نَفَخَ بِفَمِهِ, (K,) aor. ـُ [accord, to Golius and Freytag, incorrectly, نَفَخَ; see Kur, iii. 43, &c.] inf. n. نَفْخٌ; (Msb;) and ↓ نفّخ, (K,) inf. n. تَنْفِيخٌ; (TA;) He blew with his mouth; sent forth wind from his mouth; (K;) this is done in taking rest, and in labour or exertion, and the like. (L.) نَفَخَ is mostly used as a neut. v.; but sometimes it is trans., as many have asserted: you say نَفَخَ الصُّورَ, as well as نَفَخَ فِيهِ, He blew the trumpet, or blew into the trumpet: (MF, TA:) نَفَخَهُ is a dial. form of نَفَخَ فِيهِ: (S:) also, نَفَخَ فِى النَّارِ [he blew the fire; or blew into the fire]: [see 8 (last sentence) in art. قوت:] and نَفَخَ فى

الزِّقِّ [he blew into, or inflated, the skin]: and sometimes one says نَفَخَهُ. (Msb.) نُفْخُوا occurs in a verse of El-Katámee for نُفِخُوا. (S.) b2: نَفَخَ الشَّيْطَانُ فِى أَنْفِهِ (assumed tropical:) [The devil blew into his nose]: said of him who aspires to that which is not for him. (TA.) b3: نَفَخَ شِدْقَيْهِ (tropical:) [He inflated, or puffed out, the sides of his mouth; meaning] he was proud, or affected pride. (A.) b4: نَفَخَهُ, aor. ـُ inf. n. نَفْخٌ, It (food) inflated him, or filled him. (L.) b5: نَفِخَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. (L) نَفَخٌ, (S, L,) He (a man, S, and a horse, L) had inflated testicles. (S, L.) b6: Also, He (a beast of carriage) had his pasterns inflated with wind. When a beast thus affected walks, the humour subsides. (L.) b7: نَفَخَ نِهَا Pepedit; crepitum ventris emisit. (S, K.) b8: نَفَخَتِ الرِّيحُ The wind came suddenly. (L.) b9: نَفَخَتْ بِهِمُ الطَّرِيقُ (tropical:) The road cast [or brought] them suddenly [to a place]: from نفخت الريح. (L.) A2: نَفَخَتِ الضُّحَى, inf. n. نَفْخٌ, (tropical:) The morning became advanced, and the sun high. (L, K.) You say also النَّهَارُ ↓ انتفخ (tropical:) The day became advanced, the sun being high, (S, L,) an hour before noon. (L.) 2 نَفَّخَ see 1.5 تَنَفَّخَ see 8.8 انتفخ It (a thing, S, as a skin, Msb,) became inflated, or puffy; (S, A, Msb;) as also ↓ تنفّخ: (A:) also, it became swollen; i. q. وَرِمَ. (K, art. ورم.) b2: انتفخ He became inflated, or filled, by food. (L.) See 1. b3: إِنْتِفَاخُ الأَهِلَّةِ (tropical:) The bigness [or swelling] of the new moons. Occurring in a trad. respecting the signs of the last day. (L.) [See انتفج.]

b4: انتفخ عَلَىَّ (assumed tropical:) [He became inflated against me; i. e.] he was angry with me. (TA.) And انتفخ لَهُ (assumed tropical:) [He behaved angrily to him]. (TA in art. زحر.) نَفْخٌ [Flatulence. b2: And hence,] (tropical:) Boastfulness; arrogance; pride; (S, K;) [inflation with pride]: pride was termed by Mohammad نَفْخُ الشَّيْطَانِ. (TA, art. همز.) b3: رَجُلٌ ذُو نَفْخٍ, as also ذو نَفْجِ, (tropical:) A boastful, arrogant, proud man; (S;) [a man inflated with pride].

نُفُخٌ (assumed tropical:) A young man (TA) full of youthfulness [or youthful plumpness or vigour]; (K;) and so, without ة, a damsel. (TA.) نَفْخَةٌ and نُفْخَةٌ and نِفْخَةٌ Inflation of the belly (S, K) by food &c. (TA.) You say بِهِ نفخةٌ He has an inflation of the body: (K:) and أَجِدُ نفخةً I experience an inflation of the body. (S.) b2: [And A flatulent humour of any kind: a meaning well known.] b3: النَّفْخَةُ The blast [of the horn] of the day of resurrection. (L.) b4: نَفْخَةٌ A slight odour: differing from نَفْحَةٌ, which is a plenteous odour. (L.) b5: نَفْخَةُ الشَّبَابِ (tropical:) The chief part of youth. (L.) نَفْخَةُ الرَّبِيعِ (tropical:) The time of the season called الربيع when the earth produces herbs, or herbage: (A:) or نُفْخَةُ الربيع, and نِفْخَتُهُ, the time of that season when vegetation has ended. (Az:) b6: نُفْخَةٌ A disease that attacks a horse, and makes his testicles to swell. (L.) b7: See نُفَّاخٌ.

نَفْخَآءُ (applied to land, or ground, S) i. q. نَبْخَآءُ: (S, L, K:) or elevated and good or fertile ground, in which is no sand nor stones, producing a few trees; and so نَهْدَآءُ, except that this latter is more flat and extensive: or soft land, in which is elevation: (L:) or tumid earth, that breaks in pieces when trodden upon: (TA, voce رَخَّآءُ:) pl. نَفَاخِىُّ: it has a form of pl. proper to substs, because it is an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates. (L.) b2: نَفْخَآءُ The upper part of the bone of the ساق [or shank, or tibia]. (K.) نَفِيخٌ One who is employed to blow a fire. (K.) نُفَّاخٌ An inflation of a humour occasioned by disease, (T, K,) arising in any part: (T:) a humour; as also ↓ نَفْخَةٌ. (L.) b2: See نُفَّاخَةٌ.

نُفَّاخَةٌ A bubble upon water. (L, K [but in some copies of the K, for الحَجَاةُ is erroneously put الحجارة.]) b2: [The air-bladder of a fish;] an inflated thing in the belly of a fish, which is (as they assert, L,) its نِصَاب [app. meaning its most essential part, or element,] by means of which it rises in the water, and moves to and fro. (L, K.) b3: A bladder of a plant (S, O, L, voce قَتَادٌ, &c.) N. un. of نُفَّاخٌ (AHn, in TA, voce عُشَّرٌ.) [And in anatomy, A cell.]

مَا بِالدَّارِ نَافِخُ ضَرَمَةٍ [There is not in the house a blower of a fire; i. e.,] there is not in the house any one. (S.) b2: نَافِخٌ حِضْنَيْهِ [A man inflating, or puffing out, his sides;] inflated, and ready to do mischief, or evil. (L, from a trad.) أَنْفَخُ A man, (S, L, K,) and a horse, (L,) having inflated testicles: (S, L, K:) syn. of آدَرُ. (Mgh, in art, ادر.) b2: Also, A beast of carriage having his pasterns inflated with wind: see نَفِخَ. (L.) رَجُلٌ أُنْفُخَانٌ, and إِنْفِخَانٌ, and أُنْفُخَانِىٌّ, and إِنْفِخَانِىٌّ, fem. with ة, (assumed tropical:) A man full of fat; (K;) inflated with flaccid fat, and so ↓ رحل مَنْفُوخٌ; pl. مَنْفُوخُوَن. (TA.) مِنْفَخٌ: see what follows.

مِنْفَاخٌ (S, L, Msb, K) and ↓ مِنْفَخٌ (Msb) The instrument with which a fire is blown; (Msb, K:) a blacksmith's bellows: the thing with which a fire or other thing is blown: (L:) the thing into which one blows. (S.) See also كيرٌ b2: مِنْفَاخُ الرَّاعِى The instrument [i. e. reed-pipe] of the pastor, with which he calls together the camels. (A, TA, voce شِيَاعٌ.) مَنَافِخُ الشَّيْطَانِ (assumed tropical:) The suggestions of the devil (TA.) مَنْفُوخٌ (assumed tropical:) Big-bellied; (K, TA;) [inflated in the belly]. b2: Also, (K,) ↓ مُنْتَفِخٌ, (TA,) (tropical:) Fat; as an epithet; (A, K;) [inflated, or swollen, with fat]. See أُنْفِخَانٌ. b3: مَنْفُوخٌ (tropical:) A coward: so called because he swells out his lungs. (L.) مُنْتَفِخٌ (tropical:) A man inflated, or puffed, or filled, with pride, and with anger. (L.) See مَنْفُوخٌ.

نقد

1 نَقَدَ الدَّرَاهِمَ (S, A, L, Msb) aor. ـُ (L, Msb,) inf. n. نَقْدٌ (L, Msb, K) and تَنْقَادٌ; (L, K;) and ↓ انتقدها (S, L, Msb, K) and ↓ تنقّدها; (L, K:) He picked, or separated, the money, or pieces of money, (Lth, L, K,) and put forth the bad; (S, L, K;) he picked, or separated, the good money from the bad: (A:) he examined the money, or pieces of money, to pick, or separate, the good from the bad: (Msb:) and the verbs are used in the same sense with respect to other things than pieces of money. (K.) b2: [نَقَدَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. نَقْدٌ, q. v. infra, He gave cash, or ready money; paid in cash, or ready money. Often used in this sense.] b3: نَقَدَهُ الثَّمَنَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. نَقْدٌ; He gave him the price in cash, or ready money: (L:) or simply he gave him the price; as also نَقَدَ لَهُ الثَّمَنَ: (A:) and نَقَدَهُ الدَّرَاهِمَ, and نَقَدَ لَهُ الدَّرَاهِم, he gave him the money, or pieces of money. (S, L, Msb.) b4: [Hence, from the first meaning,] نَقَدَ الكَلَامَ, [and الشِّعْرَ,] and so He picked out the faults of the language, [and of the poetry;] syn. نَاقَشَهُ. (TA.) b5: ↓ اِنْتَقَدَ الشِعْرَ عَلَى قَائِلِهِ (tropical:) [He picked out the faults of the poetry and urged them against its author.] (A.) b6: نَقَدَهُ بِنَظَرِهِ, and نَقَدَ إِلَيْهِ, aor. ـُ (L,) inf. n. نَقْدٌ (L, K) (tropical:) He looked furtively at, or towards it: (L, K: *) and so نقده بِعَيْبِهِ: (L:) and نقد بِعَيْنِهِ اليه he continued looking furtively at, or towards, it: you say also, مَا زَالَ بَصَرُهُ يَنْقُدُ إِلَى ذٰلِكَ [his gaze ceased not to be furtively directed at, or towards, that]: as though likened to the look of a man picking, or separating, what is good from what is bad: (A:) and مَا زَالَ يَنْقُدُ بَصَرَهُ إِلَى الشَّىْءِ he ceased not to look at, or towards, the thing. (S, L.) A2: يَقِدَ, (S, L,) [aor. ـَ inf. n. نَقَدٌ; (S, L, K;) and, as some say, نَقَدَ; (S, L;) It (a tooth, S, L, K, and a horn, T, L, and a hoof of a horse or the like, L,) became eroded, (T, S, L, K,) and much broken: (L, K:) and it (the hoof of a horse or the like) sealed off, part after part: (S, L:) it (the trunk of a tree) became wormeaten. (L.) 3 ناقدهُ (tropical:) He reckoned with him to the utmost, syn. نَاقَشَهُ, (S, A, L, K,) فِى أَمْرٍ in, or respecting, an affair, (S, L,) [picking out his faults].4 انقد It (a tree) put forth its leaves. (L, K.) 5 تَنَقَّدَ see 1.8 انتقد الدَّرَاهِمَ He received the money, or pieces of money; (Lth, S, L, Msb, K;) and الثَّمَنَ the price. (A.) b2: See 1.

A2: انتقد It (a worm) ate the trunk of a tree, and rendered it hollow. (L.) A3: He (a boy) grew up into manhood. (K.) نَقْدٌ [properly an inf. n. used in the sense of a pass. part. n., and thus signifying “ paid,” Cash, or ready money: or simply money]. You say نَقْدٌ جَيِّدٌ [Good cash, or ready money: or good money]: pl. نُقُودٌ جِيَادٌ. (A.) التَّقْدَانِ signifies Silver and gold money; dirhems and deenárs. (TA in art. عرض.) b2: نَقْدٌ Payment in cash, or ready money; contr. of نَسْيئَةٌ: (L, K:) the giving of نَقْد [i. e., cash, or ready money]: (K:) [an inf. n.: see 1]. b3: الدِّرْهَمُ نَقْدٌ The piece of money is of full weight, (S, L, K, *) and good. (S, L.) b4: هٰذِهِ مِائَةٌ نَقْدُ النَّاسِ [This is a hundred, ready money of the people] is a phrase used by the Arabs, in which ل is meant to be understood [before النّاس: i. e. الناس is for لِلنَّاسِ; and نَقْدُ for نَقْدٌ, as an epithet of مائة; you may also say نَقْدَ النَاس, making نقد a denotative of state; but] the epithetic mode of construction is that which prevails in this case. (Sb, L.) b5: نَقْدٌ. b6: The saying of the poet, لَتُنْتَجَنَّ وَلَدًا أَوْ نَقْدَا means She will certainly bring forth a she-camel, which shall be a permanent acquisition for breeding, or a male, which shall be sold: for they seldom kept the male camels. (Th, L.) نُقْدٌ (Lh, L, K,) and ↓ نُقُدٌ (K) and ↓ نُقَدٌ. (Lh, Az, L,) the form most frequently heard by Az from the Arabs, (L,) or ↓ نَقَدٌ, (K,) [coll. gen. n.] A certain kind of tree, (Lh, L, K,) accord. to AA, of the description termed خُوصَة, having a blossom resembling the بَهْرَمَان, i. e. the عُصْفُر [or bastard-saffron]; (AHn, L;) its blossom is yellow, and it grows in plain, or soft, grounds: (Az, L:) n. un. with ة; (K;) نُقْدَةٌ (Lh, S, L) and نُقُدَةٌ (TA) and نُقَدَةٌ (Lh, L) and نَقَدَةٌ. (TA.) b2: Also ↓ نُقْدَةٌ, (L,) or ↓ نِقْدَةٌ, (IAar, L, K,) The كَرَوْيَآء [or caraway]. (IAar, L, K.) b3: See نَقِدٌ.

نِقْدٌ: see نَقِدٌ.

نَقَدٌ [a coll. gen. n.] A kind of sheep, of ugly form; (K;) a kind of sheep of El-Bahreyn, having short legs and ugly faces: (S, L:) or a kind of small sheep of El-Hijáz: (L:) or, simply, lambs: (A, L:) [see an ex. in a prov. cited voce شَامَ in art. شيم:] n. un. with ة: (S, L:) applied alike to the male and female: (L:) pl. نِقَادٌ, and [quasi-pl. n.] نِقَادَةٌ. (L, K.) As says, that the best of wool is that of نَقَد. And one says, أَذَلُّ مِنَ النَّقَدِ [More abject, or vile, than the sheep called نقد]. (S, L.) b2: Also, (assumed tropical:) The lower sort of people. (L.) b3: See نُقْدٌ and نَقِدٌ.

نَقِدٌ, (L,) or ↓ نِقْدٌ, (K,) Slow in growing up into manhood, and having little flesh: (L, K:) [and so ↓ نُقْدٌ, accord. to the CK: but ويُضمّ is there put by mistake for وبِضَمٍّ: and the former, (S, L,) or ↓ نَقَدٌ, (K,) a boy despised and little in the eyes of others, that scarcely grows up into manhood; (S, L, K;) sometimes thus applied. (S, L.) b2: نَقِدٌ A horn eaten, or eroded, at the root. (L.) See also نَقِدَ.

نُقُدٌ and نُقَدٌ and نُقْدَةٌ and نِقْدَهٌ: see نُقْدٌ.

نُقَادَةٌ The choice part of a thing. (JK.) b2: هُوَ مِنْ نُقَادَةِ قُوْمِهِ (tropical:) He is of the best of his people. (A.) نَقَّادٌ A shepherd who tends the kind of sheep called نَقَد: (L, K:) or a possessor of skins of that kind of sheep. (Th, L.) b2: See نَاقِدٌ.

نَاقِدٌ [One who picks, or separates, money, and puts forth the bad; who picks, or separates, good money from bad:] who examines money, to pick, or separate the good from the bad: [as also ↓ نَقَّادٌ:] pl. نُقَّادٌ (Msb) [and نَقَدَةٌ]. b2: [نَاقِدُ شِعْرٍ, and ↓ نَقَّادُهُ (tropical:) One who picks out the faults of poetry; and, the ↓ latter, one who is accustomed to do so.]

b3: هُوَ مِنْ نَقَدَةِ الشِّعْرِ and مِنْ نُقَّادِهِ, (tropical:) [He is one of those who pick out the faults of poetry]. (A.) أَنْقَدُ The hedge-hog; القُنْفُذُ; (S, L, K;) a proper name, like أَسَامَةُ applied to the lion: (S:) as also الأَنْقَدُ; (K;) but some disallow the prefixing of the art.; (TA;) and الأَنْقَذُ. (L.) Hence the saying, بَاتَ بِلَيْلِ أَنْقَدَ, (S, L,) or بِلَيْلَةِ أَنْقَدَ, (A, L,) He passed the night of the hedge-hog; i. e. sleepless: (L:) because the hedge-hog remains sleepless (and sees, L) all night: (S, L, K:) and أَسْرَى مِنْ أَنْقَدَ [A greater journeyer by night than the hedge-hog]. (A, L.) b2: أَنْقَدُ لَيْلٍ A calumniator; a slanderer; as also قُنْفُذُ لَيْلٍ. (L, art. قنفذ.) b3: Also, الأَنْقَدُ [L, K,) and ↓ الإِنْقِدَانُ (K) The tortoise: (L, K:) or the latter, the male tortoise: (Lth:) as also with ذ. (TA.) الإِنْقِدَانُ: see preceding sentence.