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nakkaṣa

cause to retreat

نَكَّصَ

Word

Verb · Form II

Root

ن ك ص

Forms

Present
يُنَكِّصُ
Conjugation
Person PastPresentCommand
he هُوَ نَكَّصَيُنَكِّصُ—
she هِيَ نَكَّصَتتُنَكِّصُ—
they two (m.) هُما نَكَّصايُنَكِّصانِ—
they two (f.) هُما نَكَّصَتاتُنَكِّصانِ—
they (m.) هُمْ نَكَّصُوايُنَكِّصُونَ—
they (f.) هُنَّ نَكَّصْنَيُنَكِّصْنَ—
you (m.) أَنْتَ نَكَّصْتَتُنَكِّصُنَكِّصْ
you (f.) أَنْتِ نَكَّصْتِتُنَكِّصِينَنَكِّصِي
you two أَنْتُما نَكَّصْتُماتُنَكِّصانِنَكِّصَا
you (m. pl.) أَنْتُمْ نَكَّصْتُمتُنَكِّصُونَنَكِّصُوا
you (f. pl.) أَنْتُنَّ نَكَّصْتُنَّتُنَكِّصْنَنَكِّصْنَ
I أَنا نَكَّصْتُأُنَكِّصُ—
we نَحْنُ نَكَّصْنانُنَكِّصُ—

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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