نسخ

نَاسِخٌ ذ and ↓ مُنْتَسِخٌ A copier, or transcriber, of a writing or writings, or of a book or books. (L.) ― -b2- اآيَةٌ نَاسِخَةٌ A verse of the Kur-án that abrogates, annuls, or supersedes, another verse. (S.) [See 1.] [And so,] ↓ اآيَةٌ مَنْسُوخَةٌ A verse of the Kur-án that is abrogated, annulled, or superseded, by another verse. (S.) ― -b3- [نَاسِخٌ An epithet applied to a particle, (namely, اـِنَّ and the like, and مَا and لا,) or a verb, (namely, the abstract كَان and the like, and كَادَ and the like, and ظَنَّ and the like,) which effects a change of the grammatical form, or of the meaning, in a nominal proposition before which it is placed. الخُرُوفُ الناسِخَةُ لِلْاـِبْتِدَاآءِ The particles which annul the quality of the inchoative. ]