نطس

نَطِسٌ ذ Learned, or knowing; (A, K;) as also ↓ نَطُسٌ (K) and ↓ نَطْسٌ (A, K) and ↓ نِطَاسِىٌّ and ↓ نَطَاسِىٌّ: (K:) or learned, or knowing, in affairs, and skilful therein: as also ↓ نَطُسٌ and ↓ نَطْسٌ: (ISk, TA:) intelligent, or skilful, and scrupulously nice and exact (مُتَنَوِّقٌ), in affairs: (A:) or one who examines things minutely, and attains the utmost knowledge of them: as also ↓ نَطُسٌ and ↓ مُتَنَطِّسٌ: (S:) or learned, or knowing, in affairs: skilful in physic &c.: as also ↓ نَطُسٌ and ↓ نِطِّيسٌ and ↓ نِطَاسِىٌّ: (M:) or ↓ نِطّيسٌ (S, A, K, TA) and ↓ نِطَاسِىٌّ (S, TA) and ↓ نَطَاسِىٌّ, (A'Obeyd, S,) a student of physic, (S, K, TA,) who examines it minutely; (TA;) or learned, or knowing, in physic; in Greek نُسْطَاس [ γνώστης ]: (A, TA: *) and ↓ مُتَنَطِّسٌ one who is dainty, nice, exquisite, refined, or scrupulously nice and exact (مُتَنَوِّقٌ), and who chooses or selects [ what is best ]; (IAar;) or any one who takes extraordinary pains, or exceeds the usual bounds, in a thing: (M:) also ↓ نَطِيسٌ, [without teshdeed,] a skilful man: (TA:) and ↓ نُطُسٌ, [pl. of نَطِسٌ or نَطُسٌ or نَطْسٌ,] skilful physicians. (A, K.) ― -b2- Also, One who shuns, or removes himself far from, unclean things; (K, TA;) who is scrupulously nice and exact (مُتَأَنِّقٌ) in affairs: (TA:) and نَطِسَةٌ a woman who shuns, or removes herself far from, foul, evil, or unseemly, things: (AA, TA.) and نُطُسٌ, [pl. of نَطِسٌ,] men who do thus: (K, TA:) and ↓ نُطَسَةٌ a man who shuns much, or removes himself very far from, unclean things, and is very dainty, nice, exquisite, refined, or scrupulously nice and exact (كَثِيرُ التّأَنُّقِ) in cleanliness, and in speech, and in diet and apparel, and in all affairs. (K, * TA.) See 5.