نحس

نُحَاسٌ ذ (S, K, &c.) and ↓ نِحَاسٌ (Fr, K) and ↓ نَحَاسٌ, (K,) the last, (TA,) or all, (K,) on the authority of Abu-l-'Abbás El-Kawáshee, (K,) a word of well-known meaning; (S;) Copper: and brass; syn. قِطْرٌ: (K:) or صُفْرٌ: (Ibn-Buzurj:) or a species of صُفْر intensely red: (TA:) a chaste Arabic word. (TA.) -A2- Also, Fire: (IF, K:) and the sparks that fall from brass (صُفْر), or from iron, when it is beaten (AO, K) with the hammer: (TA:) or نُحَاسٌ signifies smoke: so in the Kur, lv. 35: (Fr, Az, Bd, and others; accord. to Az, all the interpreters of the Kur.; and it is wonderful that the author of the K has omitted this signification: TA:) but some say that it is ↓ نِحَاسٌ signifies the smoke of صُفْر; and نُحَاسٌ signifies صُفْر itself: (Ibn-Buzurj:) or the latter signifies smoke in which is no flame: (S, Jel:) or smoke that rises high, and of which the heat is weak, and which is free from flame: (AHn:) or molten صُفْر: (Bd:) and some read نُحُسٌ, which is the pl. (Bd.) -A3- See also نِحَاسٌ.