نكت

نُكَتَةٌ ذ A point; a dot; a speck; a minute spot; i. q. نُقْطَةٌ: (S, K:) pl. نُكَتٌ, (Msb, &c) agreeably with analogy, (TA,) and نِكَاتٌ, (K,) deviating from analogy, and, accord. to some, نُكَاتٌ, in which the ا is said to be added لِلْاـِشْبَاعِ, or to render the sound of the fet-hah full, like رُخَالٌ (TA:) the last of these pls. has been heard [from the classical Arabs]; (Esh-Shiháb, in the Expos. of the Shifà;) or it is vulgar. (Msb.) ― -b2- نُكْتَةٌ [ A small spot, or mark, ] resembling dirt upon a mirror: (K:) نُكْتَةٌ سَوْدَاءُ A small [ black ] mark, like a spot, or dot, resembling dirt upon a mirror or a sword or the like (L, from a trad.) ― -b3- نُكْتَةٌ [ A spot in the eye; ] what resembles a وَقْرَة in the eye. (L.) ― -b4- [↓ نَكْتٌ seems to be a quasi-pl. of نُكْتَةٌ, like as نَقْطٌ is said to be (by some persons in the present day) of نُقْطَةٌ, and to signify Any small spots, or specks, in a thing, differing therefrom in colour. Such I suppose to be meant by the words in the L, كلّ نَقْطٍ فى شىء خالف لونه نَكْتٌ.] -A2- نُكْتَةٌ (tropical:) A nice, subtile, subtilely excogitated, quaint, facetious, or witty, saying, expression, or allusion, (لَطِيفَة) that makes an impression upon the heart; from النَّكْتُ [the striking the ground with a stick &c., so as to make a mark, or marks, upon it with its extremity]: also, a question educed by reflection, [بِالتَّفَكُّرِ, as the passage here translated is given in the Kull, p. 362, but in the TA بالنقل, which is an evident mistake, as might be shown by many authorities,] which makes an impression upon the heart, on hearing or considering which one generally makes marks upon the ground with the finger or the like: (El-Fenáree's Expos. of the Telweeh:) a nice, or subtile, saying, expression, or allusion, that requires one to reflect, and [ induces one ] to make marks upon the ground with a stick or the like: (from a scholium quoted by De Sacy, Anthol. Gr. Ar., 303:) [ a nice, subtile, abstruse, or mystical, point, or allusion: the point of a saying or sentence, especially one that is difficult to be understood: a conceit expressed in words difficult to be understood: a quaint conceit: a point of wit: a facetious saying or allusion: pl., generally, نُكَتٌ]. ― -b2- جَاءَ بِنُكْتَهٍ (tropical:) [ He uttered a nice, or subtile, saying, expression, or allusion, &c. ]. (A.)