nakaṣa

withdraw, recoil

نَكَصَ

Word

Verb · Form I

Root

ن ك ص

Forms

Present: يَنْكِصُ
Verbal nouns: نَكْص، نُكُوص

In the library

قَدْ كَانَتْ آيَاتِي تُتْلَىٰ عَلَيْكُمْ فَكُنْتُمْ عَلَىٰ أَعْقَابِكُمْ تَنْكِصُونَ

The Qurʾān, page 346 →

Conjugation

Person	Past	Present	Command
he هُوَ	نَكَصَ	يَنْكِصُ	—
she هِيَ	نَكَصَت	تَنْكِصُ	—
they two (m.) هُما	نَكَصا	يَنْكِصانِ	—
they two (f.) هُما	نَكَصَتا	تَنْكِصانِ	—
they (m.) هُمْ	نَكَصُوا	يَنْكِصُونَ	—
they (f.) هُنَّ	نَكَصْنَ	يَنْكِصْنَ	—
you (m.) أَنْتَ	نَكَصْتَ	تَنْكِصُ	اِنْكِصْ
you (f.) أَنْتِ	نَكَصْتِ	تَنْكِصِينَ	اِنْكِصِي
you two أَنْتُما	نَكَصْتُما	تَنْكِصانِ	اِنْكِصَا
you (m. pl.) أَنْتُمْ	نَكَصْتُم	تَنْكِصُونَ	اِنْكِصُوا
you (f. pl.) أَنْتُنَّ	نَكَصْتُنَّ	تَنْكِصْنَ	اِنْكِصْنَ
I أَنا	نَكَصْتُ	أَنْكِصُ	—
we نَحْنُ	نَكَصْنا	نَنْكِصُ	—

From the same root

All words from ن ك ص →

Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 4 entries

نَكَصَ عَنِ الأَمْرِ Form I He receded, retired, or drew back from the thing, or affair, refrained, forbore, abstained, or desisted, from it

, (A, K,) [aor. , and sometimes , as will be shown below,] inf. n. نُكُوصٌ (S, IF, A, Msb, K) and نَكُصٌ (A, K) and مَنْكَصٌ (K) and نَكَصَانٌ, (MA,) He receded, retired, or drew back from the thing, or affair, refrained, forbore, abstained, or desisted, from it; recoiled from it, shrank from it, or drew back from it in awe or fear; (S, IF, A, Msb, K;) as also نَكَثَ عَنْهُ. (Aboo-Turáb, TA.) You say also, نَكَصَ عَلَى عَقِبَيْهِ, (S, Msb, K,) or على عَقِبِهِ, (A,) aor. (S, Msb) and , (S,) or the latter only, (Sgh, TA,) or the former is allowable, (Zj, TA,) He turned back from a thing to which he had applied himself; (IDrd, S, * A, * Msb, * K, TA;) meaning a good thing; and sometimes an evil thing; (IDrd, TA;) or meaning particularly a good thing; or extr. with respect to an evil thing. (K.) [See the Kur, xxiii. 68.] Hence ↓ انتكص [as syn. with نكص], though we have not heard it. (Mgh.)
إِنْتَكَصَ Form VIII Open entry

see above.
حَظُّهُ نَاقِصٌ وَجَدُّهُ نَاكصٌ His lot, or portion, is decreasing, or deficient, and his good fortune is receding

(tropical:) [His lot, or portion, is decreasing, or deficient, and his good fortune is receding]. (A, TA.)
مَنْكَصٌ A place to which one removes, withdraws, or retires afar off

, (O, B, K,) like مَقْعَدٌ, (TA,) [in the CK, erroneously, مُنَكَّص,] A place to which one removes, withdraws, or retires afar off, syn. مُتَنَحًّى. (O, B, K.) El-Aashà says, praising 'Alkamah Ibn-'Olátheh, " أَعَلْقَمُ قَدْ جَبَرَتْنِى الأُمُورُ إِلَيْكَ وَمَا كَانَ لِى مَنْكَصُ " [O 'Alkamah, affairs have compelled me to have recourse to thee, and there was not for me any place to which to retire. (TA.)

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