Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

نَصِيحٌ ذ : see نَاصِحٌ.

نَصِيحَةٌ ذ , and inf. n., (L, Msb,) or a simple subst., (S, K,) Sincere, honest, or faithful, advice, or counsel, and conduct: (Msb:) direction to that which is for the good of the person who is the object, by words, or speech, which is the proper signification; or otherwise, which is a tropical signification: (Lb:) or good advice or counsel; direction to what is good: or sedulousness, or earnestness, in advice or counsel: or sincere or honest conduct: (MF:) or benevolence; desire for what is good for the person who is the object: (Nh, MF:) [pl. نَصَائِحُ]

نَصَّاحٌ ذ : see نَاصِحٌ.

نَاصِحٌ ذ (act. part. n. of نَصَِحَ) and ↓ نَصِيحٌ are syn., (S, K,) signifying One who advises, or counsels, sincerely, honestly, or faithfully: and who so acts; (Msb:) [ who directs another to that which is for the good of the latter, by words, or speech; or otherwise: or who gives good advice, or counsel: or who advises, or counsels, sedulously, or earnestly: or who acts sincerely, or honestly: or benevolent; who desires what is good for another: see نَصَح لُهَ;] pl. of the former نُصَّحٌ and نُصَّاحٌ; (K;) and of the latter, نُصَحَاآءُ. (S.) ― -b2- رَجُلٌ نَاصِحُ الجَيْبِ (tropical:) A man pare, or sincere, of heart; (S;) in whom is no deceit, dishonesty, insincerity, or dissimulation: (K:) said to be an expression similar to طَاهِرُ الثَّوْبِ [q. v.]. (TA.) [See also art. جيب.] -A2- نَاصِحٌ (S, K) and ↓ نَصَّاحٌ and نَاصِحِىٌّ (K) (tropical:) A sewer; a worker with the needle; a tailor. (S, K.) -A3- نَاصِحٌ (tropical:) Pure, or clear, honey, (As, S, K,) &c., like نَاصِعٌ (As, S). سَقَانِى نَاصِحَ العَسَلِ (tropical:) He gave me to drink white honey; or fine, or thin, white honey. (A.) -A4- غُيُوتٌ نَوَاصِحُ (tropical:) Rains succeeding one another. (A.)

مِنْصَحٌ ذ and مِنْصَحَةٌ (tropical:) A needle, with which one sews. (L, K.) If thick, it is called شَغِيزَةٌ. (L.)

مُنْصَاحٌ ذ : see مَنْصُوحٌ.

قَمِيصٌ مَنْصُوحٌ ذ , (A, L,) and ↓ مُنْصَاحٌ, (A,) (tropical:) A shirt that is rent (A) and sewed. (L.) [See also مُتَنَصَّحٌ.] -A2- أَرْضٌ مَنْصُوحَةٌ (tropical:) A land plentifully watered by rain, (K.) having its herbage closely conjoined, (ISd, K,) as though the spaces which were between the several portions of the herbage were closed up by sewing. (ISd.)

مُتَنَصَّحٌ ذ (tropical:) Well sewed. (AA, K.) [See also مَنْصُوحٌ.] ― -b2- Also (tropical:) A place, in a garment, repaired and sewed: (TA:) a patched place, or place of patching: (K:) a place for sewing; similar to مُتَرَقَّعٌ, q. v. (TA in art. رقع.)

1 نَصَرَهُ ذ , (M, A, K,) aor. نَصُرَ , (M,) inf. n. نَصْرٌ (M, A, K) and نُصْرَةٌ, (A,) or this is a simple subst., (S, Msb,) and نُصُورٌ, (K,) [but see the verse of Khidásh in what follows,] He aided or assisted him, (M, K,) namely, a person wronged, misused, or treated unjustly or injuriously, (M. A, K,) against his enemy: (TA:) [ he avenged him: (see the verse here following, and see 8:) he supplied his want, or somewhat thereof (TA.) Kidásh Ibn-Zuheyr says. فَاـِنْ كُنْتَ تَشْكُو مِنْ خَلِيلٍ مَخَانَةً فتِلْكَ الجَوَازِى عَقْبُهَا وَنُصُورُهَا [ And if thou complain of treachery from a friend. those requitals are its result and its avengers, or avengement ]: here نُصُور may be a pl. of نَاصِرٌ. like شُهُودٌ is of شَاهِدٌ; or it may be an inf. n., like دُخُولٌ and خُرُوجٌ. (M.) You say, تَصَرَهُ عَلَى عَدُوِّهِ, (S, A, Msb,) and مِنْ عَدُوِّهِ, (A, Msb,) aor. نَصُرَ , (S, Msb,) inf. n. نَصْرٌ (S, A, Msb) and نُصْرَةٌ, (A,) or this, as remarked above, is a simple subst., (S, Msb.) He (namely, God. S, A, or a man, Msb,) aided or assisted him, and strengthened him, against his enemy: (Msb:) [ he avenged him of his enemy. (See 8.)] And نَصَرَهُ ا@للّٰهُ God made him to be victorious, to conquer, or to overcome: so in the Kur, xxii. 15, where the pronoun relates to Mohammad. (TA.) In the Kur, xlvii. 8. اـِنْ تَنْصُرُوا ا@للّٰهَ يَنْصُرْكُمْ means, If ye aid God's religion and his apostle, He will aid you against your enemy: (Bd, Jel) or if ye aid his servants, &c.: or if ye keep his ordinances and aid his orders and comply with his commands and shun the things which He hath forbidden, &c. (El-Basáïr.) And the trad. أُنْصُرْ أَخَاكَ ظَالِمَّا أَوْ مَظْلُومًا is explained as meaning, Prevent thou thy brother from wronging when he is a wronger, and aid him against his wronger when he is wronged. (TA.) Also, نَصَرَهُ مِنْهُ, (K,) inf. n. نَصْرٌ and نُصْرَةٌ, (TA,) [or the latter in this sense, as in the cases above mentioned, is a simple subst.,] He served or Preserved him from him or it. (K.) ― -b2- نَصَرَا@للّٰهُ الأَرْضَ God gave rain to the earth or land. (A.) And نَصَرَ الغَيْثُ الأَرْضَ (S, M, K,) [aor. نَصُرَ ,] inf. n. نَصْرٌ, (M,) (tropical:) The rain aided the earth or land: (S:) or watered it: (M:) or watered it generally and copiously, (K, TA,) and caused it to produce herbage: (TA:) and نَصَرَ البَلَدَ (tropical:) it assisted the country to produce abundance of herbage: (TA:) and نُصِرَتِ الأَرْضْ (tropical:) the earth or land was watered by rain. (S.) ― -b3- Hence, نَصَرَهُ, aor. نَصُرَ , inf. n. نَصْرٌ, (tropical:) He gave to him. (M.) An Arab of the desert [in the A a beggar] accosted a people saying, أُنْصُرُونِى نَصَرَكُمُ ا@للّٰهُ, meaning, (tropical:) Give ye to me: may God give to you. (M, A.) ― -b4- نَصَرَهُ ا@للّٰهُ also signifies (assumed tropical:) God bestowed upon him the means of subsistence, or the like; syn. رَزَقَهُ. (IKtt.)

2 نصّرهُ ذ , (inf. n. تَنْصِيرٌ, K,) He made him a Christian. (S, M, K.) It is said in a trad., [relating to the natural disposition of a child to adopt the true faith,] فَأَبَوَاهُ يُهَوِّدَانِهِ وَيُنَصِّرَانِهِ [ But his two parents make him a Jew or make him a Christian ]. (S.)

3 نَاْصَرَ [ناصرهُ He rendered reciprocal aid to him. See an ex. voce عَاصَرَ.]

5 تنصّر ذ He laboured, or strove, to aid, or assist; syn. عَالَجَ النَّصْرَ: (M, K:) not of the same category as تَحَلَّمَ [he endeavoured to acquire حِلْم] and تبرّر [he endeavoured to characterize himself by بِرّ]. (M.) -A2- He became a Christian. (M, K.)

6 تناصروا ذ They aided or assisted one another: (S, Msb, TA:) they assisted one another to aid. (M, A, K, TA.) ― -b2- تناصرت الأَخْبَارُ (tropical:) The accounts, or tidings, confirmed, or verified, one another. (M, K, TA.)

8 انتصر ذ He defended himself: (Bd, Jel, lv. 35:) he defended himself against his wronger, or injurer. (TA.) ― -b2- انتصر مِنْهُ He exacted, or obtained, his right, or due, completely, from him, so that each of them became on a par with the other: (Az, TA:) he revenged himself upon him. (Az, S, M, * Msb, K.)

10 استنصر ذ He asked, sought, or desired, aid, or assistance. (M, K.) And استنصره He asked him to aid him, (S, Msb, K,) عَلَيْهِ against him, (S, K,) i. e. against his enemy. (S, TA.) ― -b2- (tropical:) He begged; (K;) as though he asked for a gift, which is termed نَصْر. (TA.)

نَصْرٌ ذ [used a subst.,] Aid or assistance, rendered to another, especially against an enemy: [ avengement or another:] victory or conquest: (Bd, xxix. 9:) and ↓ نُصْرَةٌ is a subst. from نَصَرَهُ [and therefore signifies the same]: (S, Msb:) or the ↓ latter signifies good aid, or assistance: (M, K:) and this ↓ same word, when the object is God, signifies aid of God's servants; &c.; as explained above: see 1. (El-Basáïr.) ― -b2- Spoil; plunder; booty. (Bd, ubi supra.) ― -b3- (tropical:) Rain; (A, TA;) as also ↓ نُصْرَةٌ: (TA:) in like manner as it is called فَتْح: (A, TA:) or the ↓ latter signifies a complete rain. (IAar.) ― -b4- [Hence,] (tropical:) A gift: (S, TA:) and نَصَائِرُ gifts. (M.) ― -b5- See also نَاصِرٌ.

نُصَرٌ ذ : see نَاصِرٌ.

نُصْرَةٌ ذ : see نَصْرٌ, in five places.

نَصْرِىٌّ ذ : see نَصْرَانِىٌّ.

نَصْرَانٌ ذ : see نَصْرَانِىٌّ.

نَصْرَانِىٌّ ذ , (S, A, Msb, K, &c.) and ↓ نَصْرَانٌ, (M, A,) or this latter has not been used without the addition of the relative ى, (S,) or it has been sometimes used, (M,) and ↓ نَصْرِىٌّ, (M, Msb, K,) but we have not heard this used, (M,) [ A Christian: or this is a secondary application, and the original meaning is a Nazarene: ] fem. نَصْرَانِيَّةٌ, (S, A, Msb, K,) and نَصْرَانَةٌ, (S, A, K,) or the latter is used only by poetic licence: (IB:) ↓ نَصَارَى [applied to the Christians ] is a rel. n. from نَاصِرَةُ, [or Nazareth,] a town of Syria, (S, M, K,) also called نَصْرَانَةُ, (Lth, IDrd, K,) or نَصْرَانُ, (S, Msb,) and نَصُورِيَةٌ, (M, Sgh, K,) without teshdeed, accord. to Sgh, (TA,) and نُصْرِىٌّ and نُصْرَى, (as in a copy of the M,) or نَصْرَى and نَصْرَوَةُ: (TA:) so originally, and then applied to such as hold the religion of its inhabitants: (Msb:) this is the opinion of the lexicologists; but it is of weak authority, though admissible as there are other anomalous rel. ns.: (M:) or [so in K, but in the S, and] نَصَارَى is pl. of نَصْرِىٌّ, (Kh, M, Msb, K,) like as مَهَارَى is pl. of مَهْرِىٌّ; (Msb, K;) or of نَصْرَانٌ (Kh, S, M) and نَصْرَانَةٌ, (S,) like as نَدَامَى is pl. of نَدْمَانٌ (Kh, S, M) and نَدْمَانَةٌ; (S;) but more probably of نَصْرَانٌ, because this word has been sometimes used, whereas we have not heard نَصْرِىٌّ used: (M:) and it is implied in the copies of the K, that أَنْصَارٌ is pl. of نَصْرَانِىٌّ; but correctly, it is a pl. of نَصْرَانٌ, without ى, as is said in the TS, and the L, in both of which is mentioned the saying of the poet, لَمَّا رَأَيْتُ نَبَطًا أَنْصَارَا [ When I saw Nabatheans, Christians ], meaning نَصَارَى. (TA.)

النَّصْرَانِيَّةُ ذ The religion of the نَصَارَى [or Christians ]. (K, TA.)

نَصُورٌ ذ One who aids, or assists, much or well. (TA in art. عقرب.)

نَصِيرٌ ذ : see نَاصِرٌ. It has the signification of the measure فَاعِلٌ or of the measure مَفْعُولٌ; for أَخَوَانِ نَصِيرَانِ, occurring in a trad., means Two brothers, aiders of, and aided by, each other. (TA.)

نَصَارَى ذ : see نَصْرَانِىٌّ.

نَصَائِرُ ذ : see نَصْرٌ.

نَاصِرٌ ذ act. part. n. of نَصَرَ, An aider or assister, especially against an enemy; &c.; as also ↓ نَصِيرٌ, (S, * M, A, Msb, K,) and ↓ نَصَرٌ: (Sgh, K:) pl. (of نَصِيرٌ, (S, M, Msb, and of نَاصِرٌ, M,) أَنْصَارٌ (S, M, A, Msb, K) and (of نَاصِرٌ, M) نُصَّارٌ, (M, K,) and نُصُورٌ may also be a pl. of the same, as occurring in the verse of Khidásh, cited above: (M:) and أَنَاصِيرُ is a pl. pl., being pl. of أَنْصَارٌ: (TA:) and ↓ نَصْرٌ is used as sing. and pl., (M, K,) being an inf. n. employed as an epithet, like عَدْلٌ. (M.) ― -b2- الأَنْصَارُ also signifies The Assistants of the Prophet; (M, K;) of [the tribes of] El-Ows and El-Khazraj; (TA;) being an epithet applied to them especially, (M, K,) and used as a subst., as though it were the name of a tribe, wherefore the rel. n. أَنْصَارِىٌّ [which is used as sing.] is formed from it. (M.)

نَاصُورٌ ذ : see نَاسُورٌ.

أَنْصَارٌ ذ : see نَصْرَانِىٌّ: ― -b2- and ناصِرٌ.

أَنْصَارِىٌّ ذ : see نَاصِرٌ.

مَنْصُورٌ ذ [ Aided or assisted, especially against an enemy, &c.]. ― -b2- أَرْضٌ مَنْصُورَةٌ (tropical:) Land watered by rain; rained upon. (S, A.)

مُسْتَنْصِرٌ ذ [ Asking, seeking, or desiring, aid, or assistance ]. ― -b2- (tropical:) A beggar. (M.)

See Supplement

1 نَضَّ ذ , aor. نَضِ3َ , inf. n. نَضِيضٌ (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K) and نَضٌّ, (K,) It (water) welled from a source, or spring: (TA:) or flowed: (TA:) or flowed, (S, Mgh, K,) or came forth, (Mgh, Msb,) by little and little, (S, A, Mgh, Msb,) from stone or the like; (Mgh;) like بَضَّ: (A:) or exuded; or oozed forth, (A, K,) [like بَضَّ;] like as it does from stone. (TA.) You say also, سَحَابَةٌ تَنِضُّ بِالْمَاآءِ A cloud flowing with water. (TA.) And رِيحٌ تَنِضُّ بِالْمَاآءِ [app. A wind bringing rain ]. (K.) And نَضَّتِ القِرْبَةُ مِنْ شِدَّةِ المَلْءِ, (K,) aor. نَضِ3َ , inf. n. نَضِيضٌ, (TA,) The water-skin slit, or burst, (K, TA,) and its water came forth, (TA,) in consequence of being very full. (K, TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] نَضَّ اـِلَيْهِ مِنْ مَعْرُوفِهِ شَىْءٌ, aor. نَضِ3َ , inf. n. نَضٌّ [and نَضِيضٌ], (assumed tropical:) Somewhat flowed to him from his bounty: but the verb is mostly thus used in negative phrases. (TA.) You say also, نَضَّ مِنْ مَعْرُوفِكَ نُضَاضَةٌ (assumed tropical:) A little of thy bounty [ flowed forth ]. (TA.) And نَضَّ لَهُ بِشَىْءٍ (assumed tropical:) He did him a small benefit; as also بَضَّ. (As.) ― -b3- Hence too, (Mgh,) نَضَّ, (IKoot, S, A, &c.,) aor. نَضِ3َ , inf. n. نَضِيضٌ, (K,) also signifies (tropical:) It (a thing, IKoot, Msb, or an affair, K) was, or became, within the power or reach; or possible; or easy of obtainment or attainment; or prepared, or ready; or produced; or apparent; or it presented itself; syn. أَمْكَنَ; (K, TA;) and تَيَسَّرَ; (S, A, Mgh, Msb, TA;) and حَصَلَ; (IKoot, Mgh, Msb, TA;) and ظَهَرَ. (Mgh.) You say, خُذْ مَا نَضَّ (tropical:) Take thou, or receive thou, what hath become easy of obtainment or attainment: or prepared, or ready; or produced; or apparent; or what hath presented itself; syn. تَيَسَّرَ; (S, A, Mgh, Msb, TA;) and حَصَلَ; (Mgh, TA;) لَكَ to thee, or for thee; (S, A, Mgh, TA;) مِنْ دَيْنِ of a debt; (S;) or من الدَّيْنِ of the debt; (Msb;) or من دَيْنِكَ of thy debt; (A, Mgh;) or من غَرِيمِكَ from thy debtor. (TA.) And it is said in a trad., خُذُوا صَدَقَةَ مَا نَضَّ مِنْ أَمْوَالِهِمْ (tropical:) Take ye the poor-rate of what hath appeared, or presented itself, of their possessions; syn. ظَهَرَ, and حَصَلَ. (Mgh.) You say also. نَضَّ الثَّمَنُ (assumed tropical:) The price was, or became, produced, or apparent, or prepared, or ready: was, or became, given in ready money, or promptly, or quickly, or in advance: syn. حَصَلَ: and تَعَجَّلَ. (Msb.) And مَا تَضَّ بِيَدِى مِنْهُ شَىْءٌ, (S, Msb,) i. e. ما حَصَلَ (assumed tropical:) [ Nothing became produced, or apparent, &c., by my hand therefrom: or, accord. to A 'Obeyd, or As, (see نَضَّ,) the verb in this instance seems to have the signification here next following] (Msb.) نَضَّ مَالُهُ also signifies (tropical:) His property became converted into money, or cash, after it had been a commodity, or commodities. (A, Mgh. *)

2 نَضَّ3َ see R. Q. 1, in two places.

4 انضّ ذ He (a pastor, S) gave lambs or kids to drink a small quantity of milk. (S, K, TA.) -A2- (assumed tropical:) He accomplished a want. (K.)

5 تَنَضَّ3َ see 10, in two places. -A2- تَنَضَّضْتُ فُلَانًا (assumed tropical:) I excited, incited, urged, or instigated, such a one. (Sgh, K, TA.) [In one copy of the K, ↓ تَنَضْنَضْتُ.]

8 اـِنْتَضَ3َ see 10.

10 استنضّ الثِّمَادَ ذ He sought repeatedly and perseveringly the [ small quantities, or remains, termed ] ثِمَاد of water, and took of them little by little. (TA [in which, however, الثِّمَارَ is erroneously put for الثِّمَادَ].) ― -b2- [Hence,] هُوَ يَسْتَنِضُّ مَعْرُوفًا (tropical:) He seeks, or demands, bounty, or a benefit, as it were drop by drop; syn. يَسْتَقْطِرُهُ: (K, TA:) or extracts, or elicits, it: (TA:) or seeks, or demands, its accomplishment. (A, TA.) And هُوَ يَسْتَنِضُّ حَقَّهُ, (S, K,) or حقّه ↓ يَنْتَضُّ, (so in a copy of the Msb,) (assumed tropical:) He seeks, or demands, the accomplishment of his right, or due, (S, Msb, K,) and takes, or receives, (S,) part after part, (S, Msb,) مِنْ فُلَانٍ from such a one: (S:) or extracts, or elicits, it, part after part. (K.) And مَنْهُ حَقِّى ↓ تَنضَّضْتُ [in one copy of the K ↓ تَنَضْنَضْتُ] (assumed tropical:) I took, or exacted, or received, fully, or wholly, from him, my right, or due, (K, TA,) part after part: (TA) [as also تَنَضَّضْتُهُ مِنْه.] And الحَاجَةُ ↓ تَنَضَّضْتُ [in one copy of the K ↓ تَنَضْنَضْتُ] A I sought, or demanded, the accomplishment of the want. (K.)

R. Q. 1 نَضْنَضَ ذ , (K, TA,) or ↓ نَضَّضُ, (so in the CK,) said of a man, (TA,) (assumed tropical:) His نَاضّ, (K, TA,) i. e. what was apparent of his property, (TA,) became much, or abundant. (K, TA.) -A2- He moved about his tongue; as also تَصْنَصَ; but the ض in the former is not a substitute for the ص in the latter, as some assert it to be: (L, TA:) the verb is used in this sense in speaking of a man; (TA:) and of a serpent; (S *, A, K;) inf. n. نَضْنَضَةٌ: (S, but in one copy نَضِيضَةٌ:) and accord. to Ibn-'Abbád, نَضْنَضَةٌ [the inf. n.] signifies the making, or uttering, of a sound: or the sound itself; (صَوْت;) [app. by a motion of the tongue; ] of the serpent; and hence, [accord. to some,] the epithet نَضْنَاضٌ, as applied to a serpent: (TA:) or this epithet is from the phrase, (IAar.) نَصْنَضَ فُلَانًا, (IAar, K,) ↓ نَضَّضَهُ, (so in the CK,) He put such a one in motion, (IAar,) and he disquieted, disturbed, or unsettled, him; or removed him from his place. (IAar, K.) [In one place, in the TA, اسنضّ مِنْهُ شَيْئًا is made to signify the same; but this is doubtless a mistake, arising from an omission in transcription.] You say also, نَضْنَضَ البَعِيرُ ثَفنَاته The camel moved about his ثَفِنَات [q. v.], and made them to be in contact with the ground; or this is [نَصْنَصَ,] with ص. (TA.)

R. Q. 2 see 5: ― -b2- and see also 10, in two places.

نَضٌّ ذ (S, Msb, K) and ↓ ناضٌّ (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K) (tropical:) Gold and silver coin or money; or deenárs and dirhems: (S, A, Mgh, Msb:) such are called المَال ↓ نَاضٌّ: (A, TA:) or the dirhem and deenár: (K:) of the dial. of El-Hijáz: (As, S, Mgh, Msb:) but accord. to A 'Obeyd, (S, Msb,) or As, (TA,) these are called ↓ نَاضٌّ only when converted into such after having been a commodity, or commodities; (S, Msb, K;) because one says, مَا نَضَّ بِيَدِى مِنْهُ شَىْءٌ, (S, Msb,) i. e. مَا حَصَلَ: (Msb:) نَضٌّ also signifies what is apparent, or produced, or prepared, or ready; and so ↓ نَاضٌّ, particularly of property: (TA:) and ↓ the latter, what has continuance, or endurance, of property, (Msb.) A man of much property is described as being أَكْثَرُ النَّاسِ ↓ نَاضًّا (tropical:) [ The most abounding of men in gold and silver coin ]. (TA.) -A2- See also نَضِيضٌ.

نَضَضٌ ذ Water upon sand beneath which is hard ground, from which whenever any exudes and collects, it is taken. (TA.)

بِئْرٌ نَضُوضٌ ذ A well of which the water flows by little and little: or oozes forth. (K, TA.)

نَضِيضٌ ذ Water little in quantity: (S, O, L, K.) pl. نِضَاضٌ; (S, O, L, TA; in the K, نَضَائِضُ, which is a mistake. TA.) Also, A small quantity of milk. (S. K.) ― -b2- رَجُلٌ نَضِيضٌ اللَّحْمِ (assumed tropical:) A man having little flesh; (K;) as also ↓ نَضُّهُ, and ↓ نَضْنَاضُهُ. (TA.) -A2- جَاؤوا بِأَقُصَى نَضِيضِهِمْ, and ↓ نَضِيضَتِهِمْ, They came with the most remote of their company; (O, K;) from Ibn-'Abbád. (TA.)

نُضَاضَةٌ ذ A remainder, (S, K,) or small remainder, (A,) of water, (S, A, K,) &c.: (S, K:) the last thereof: pl. نَضَائِصُ and نِضَاضٌ. (TA.) [Hence,] نُضَاضَةُ وَلَدِ الرَّجُلِ (tropical:) The last of the children of the man: (AZ, S, A, K:) applied alike to the male and female and to two and more; (S, K;) like عِجْزَةٌ and كِبْرَةٌ. (S.) ― -b2- (tropical:) A small thing: (A) what comes into one's hand, of a thing: a small benefit. (TA.)

نَصِيضَةٌ ذ A small quantity of rain: (AA, S, K:) or a weak rain: or a weak cloud: or one flowing with water: (TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَنِضَّةٌ and [of mult.] نَضَائِضُ. (S, K.) ― -b2- A wind that brings rain. (تَنِضُّ بِالْمَاآءِ,) so that it flows: or a weak wind. (A 'Obeyd, K.) ― -b3- لقَدٌ تَرَكْثِ الاـِبِلُ المَاآءَ وَهِىَ ذَاتُ نَضِيضَةٍ, and ذَاتُ نَضَائِضَ, The camels have left the water, having thirst; (S, K.; *) not having satisfied their thirst. (S.) -A2- The sound of the roasting of flesh-meat upon heated stones: pl. نَضَائِضُ: (S, K:) ISd, however, says, I think that نَضَائضُ is a sing., like خَشَارِمُ; but the sing. may be نَضِيضَةٌ. (TA.) [It seems to me not improbable that نَضَائِضُ may in a mistranscription, for نَضَائِضُ, pl. of the inf. n. نَضْنَضَةٌ used as a subst.] -A3- See also نَضِيضٌ.

نَضْنَاضٌ ذ : see نَضِيضٌ. -A2- حَيَّةٌ نَضْنَاضٌ, (IAar, S, K,) and نَضْنَاضَةٌ, (S, A, K,) A serpent that remains not still in a place, (IAar, K,) by reason of its malignity and liveliness: (IAar:) or that, when it bites, kills immediately: (K:) or that moves about its tongue, (S, A, K,) having put it forth; (K;) as also with ص: [see نَصْنَاصٌ:] (TA:) or that utters a sound, or sounds. (TA.) It is said that Dhu-r-Rummeh, being asked respecting the meaning of نَضْناضٌ, did nothing more than move about his tongue in his mouth; (S:) or put forth his tongue, and move it about, (IJ, O,) in his mouth, making a sign with it to him who asked him. (O.)

نَضْنَاضَةٌ ذ : see فَضْفَاضَةٌ.

نَاضٌ ذ (tropical:) A thing, or an affair, within one's power or reach [&c.: see 1, of which it is the part. n.]. (K.) ― -b2- See also نَضٌّ in six places.