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نكد

Root entry · 1 derived lemma

نَكِدٌ ذ [ Hard, strait, or difficult; applied to a man's life; (see 1;) and to fortune, as in an ex. voce اـِبِدٌ.] ― -b2- Water little in quantity. (L.) ― -b3- لَا يَخْرُجُ اـِلَّا نَكِدًا, in the Kur, [vii. 56,] accord. to the common reading, or ↓ نَكَدًا, accord. to the reading of the people of El-Medeeneh, or, as it may be read, accord. to Zj, ↓ نَكْدًا and ↓ نُكْدًا, means, accord. to Fr, It [the herbage] will not come forth save with difficulty: (L:) or, scantily and unprofitably. (Beyd.) ― -b4- نَكِدٌ (S, A, L, Msb, K,) and ↓ نَكَدٌ and ↓ نَكْدٌ and ↓ أَنْكَدُ (L, K) A man who is unpropitious, (L, K,) and mean, (L,) and hard, or difficult: (S, A, L, Msb, K:) and a people you term أَنْكَادٌ and مَنَاكِيدُ (S, L, K) and نُكُدٌ and نُكْدٌ. (A.) ― -b5- نَكِدٌ and ↓ أَنْكَدُ A man that brings evil upon others. (L.)

Derived headwords

نَكِدٌ
  1. 1.
لَا يَخْرُجُ اـِلَّا نَكِدًا