torment, harass

, aor. , (S, K, &c.,) inf. n. نَكَدٌ, (S, L, Msb,) It (a man's life) was, or became, hard, or strait, and difficult. (S, L, Msb, K.) ― -b2- نَكِدَ It (a she-camel's milk) became deficient. (R.) ― -b3- نَكِدَ It (water) became exhausted. (A.) ― -b4- نَكِدَتِ الرَّكِيَّةُ The well came to have little water. (S, L, K.) ― -b5- نَكِدَ, aor. , inf. n. نَكَدٌ, He was, or became, unpropitious, and mean: (L:) he became hard, or difficult: (Msb:) he gave little: or gave not at all: you say also نَكِدَ بِحَاجَتِنَا he was niggardly of that which we wanted. (L.) ― -b6- نَكَدَ حَاجَتَهُ, aor. ; (K;) or نَكَدَهُ حَاجَتَهُ, (L,) He withheld from him, or refused him, his want. (L, K.) ― -b7- نَكَدَهُ, aor. , He withheld from him, or refused him, what he asked: or [in the CK, and] the same, (K,) or نَكَدَهُ مَا سَأَلَهُ, aor. , inf. n. نَكْدٌ, (L,) he gave him not save the least of what he asked. (L, K.) ― -b8- نُكِدَ, [in measure] like عُنِىَ, He had many askers and gave little. (K.) ― -b9- نَكَدَ, aor. , He (a raven or crow) croaked with his utmost force; (A, K;) as though vomiting; as also ↓ تنكّد. (A.)

He impaired his gift by reproach. (A.) ― -b2- نكّد وَسْقَهُ He spent, or exhausted, what he possessed, in consequence of frequent petitions. (A.) ― -b3- نكّدهُ He vexed, distressed, or troubled, him; (Gol, from Meyd.) [as also نكّد عَلَيْهِ].

He treated him, or behaved towards him, with hardness, harshness, or ill-nature. (S, L, K.)

He asked of him, and found him hard, or difficult, (A, L,) and mean, or niggardly: (L:) or found him to have only what was scanty, or little. (L.) ― -b2- طَلَبَ مِنْهُ حَاجَةً فَأَنْكَدَ He sought, or desired, of him a thing that he wanted, and he was niggardly. (A.)

[He became vexed, distressed, or troubled]. (A.) See Bd, in lxviii. 25: and see 1.

They treated each other with hardness, harshness, or ill-nature. (S, L, K.)

: see نُكْدٌ, and نَكِدٌ.

and ↓ نَكْدٌ Scantiness of a gift; (L, K;) and its not being enjoyed, or found pleasant, by the receiver. (L.) ― -b2- See what follows.

, and له وجُحْدُا ↓ نُكْدًا, [May God decree straitness, or difficulty, to him, and poverty]: forms of imprecation. (L.) ― -b2- نَكَدٌ Anything that brings evil upon the person whom it affects. (L.) See نَكِدٌ.

[Hard, strait, or difficult; applied to a man's life; (see 1;) and to fortune, as in an ex. voce إِبِدٌ.] ― -b2- Water little in quantity. (L.) ― -b3- لَا يَخْرُجُ إِلَّا نَكِدًا, in the Kur, [vii. 56,] accord. to the common reading, or ↓ نَكَدًا, accord. to the reading of the people of El-Medeeneh, or, as it may be read, accord. to Zj, ↓ نَكْدًا and ↓ نُكْدًا, means, accord. to Fr, It [the herbage] will not come forth save with difficulty: (L:) or, scantily and unprofitably. (Beyd.) ― -b4- نَكِدٌ (S, A, L, Msb, K,) and ↓ نَكَدٌ and ↓ نَكْدٌ and ↓ أَنْكَدُ (L, K) A man who is unpropitious, (L, K,) and mean, (L,) and hard, or difficult: (S, A, L, Msb, K:) and a people you term أَنْكَادٌ and مَنَاكِيدُ (S, L, K) and نُكُدٌ and نُكْدٌ. (A.) ― -b5- نَكِدٌ and ↓ أَنْكَدُ A man that brings evil upon others. (L.)

Hardness, or difficulty, in a man. (A.) See نَكِدَ.

Lands possessing little goods. (L.)