Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

نَكِيثَهٌ ذ : see نِكْثٌ. ― -b2- Subst. from انتكث الحَبْلُ [ What is undone, or untwisted, of a rope ]. (TA.) ― -b3- (tropical:) Breach of promise; syn. خُلْفٌ. (S, K.) Ex. قَالَ فُلَانٌ قَوْلًا لَا نَكِيثَةَ فِيهِ Such a one said a saying in which was [ intended ] no breach of promise. (S.) ― -b4- (tropical:) A difficult, or an arduous, affair, or case, in which a people dissolves, or breaks, (تَنْكُثُ) [ its covenants, or compacts ]. (S, K.) ― -b5- A great affair. (TA.) ― -b6- The utmost of one's endeavour, or effort: (S, K:) power, or strength: (K:) pl. نَكَائِثُ. (TA.) Ex. بَلَغَ فُلَانٌ نَكِيثَةَ بَعِيرِهِ Such a one exerted the utmost endeavour, or effort, [or power, or strength, ] of his camel, in journeying. (S.) [See also نَجِيثَةٌ.] ― -b7- نَكِيثَةٌ Nature; natural, or native, disposition, temper, or other property. (K.) ― -b8- النَكِيثَهُ (assumed tropical:) The mind; the soul; syn. النَّفْسُ: (S, K:) so called because the vexation of those things of which it is in need dissolve (تَنْكُثُ) its powers, and old age destroys it: the ة is added because it is a subst. (TA.) Ex. فُلاَنٌ شَدِيدُ النَّكِيثَةِ Such a one is strong in mind. (S.) Pl. نَكَائِثُ. (TA.)

نَكَّاثٌ ذ One who undoes, or untwists, thread, and twists it again, or, to twist it again. (TA.) [See نِكْثٌ.] ― -b2- نَكَّاثٌ لِلْعَهْدِ (tropical:) One who is wont to dissolve, violate, or break, his covenant, or compact. (TA.)

مَنْكُوثٌ ذ : see نِكْثٌ.

مَنْتَكِثٌ ذ Emaciated; lean: (K:) a camel that has been fat, and has become lean. (TA.)

1 نَكَحَ كح نكح , (S, K, &c.,) aor. نَكِحَ , (Msb, K,) and نَكَحَ , (K,) the latter agreeable with analogy, but by some rejected, and the former contr. to analogy, but more common, and the form used in the Kur, (TA,) the only instance of an aor. of this form from a verb having ح for its last radical letter, except ينطح and يمنح and ينضح and ينبح and يرجح and يأنح and يأزح and يملح, (ISd,) [and يضح] inf. n. نِكَاحٌ (S, K, &c.) and نَكْحٌ; (ISd, K;) Inivit feminam: and (sometimes, S) he married, took in marriage, or contracted a marriage with, a woman: as also ↓ استنكح (S, K, &c.) [and ↓ ناكح, inf. n. مُنَاكَحَةٌ:] used only with reference to a man: (ISd:) but Th uses it with reference to flies: (TA:) J says, that it is sometimes used in the latter sense; but accord. to the Msb it is more commonly so used; (MF;) and it is used only in this sense in the Kur: (TA:) IF and others say, that it signifies coitus; and coitus without marriage; and marriage without coitus: (Msb:) [but] in the Time of Ignorance, when a man demanded a woman in marriage he said, اِنْكِحِينِى; and when he desired fornication, he said, سَافِحِينِى. (TA, in art سفح.) It is disputed whether it be proper or tropical in these two senses; or proper in one, and tropical in one: (MF:) it is said to be from نَكَحَهُ الدَّوَى, or from تَنَاكَحَتِ الأَشْجَارُ, or from نَكَحَ المَطَرُ الأَرْضَ; and if so, it is tropical in both the above senses; and the opinion that it is so is confirmed by this, that the signification of marriage is not understood unless by a word or phrase in connexion with it, as when you say نَكَحَ فِى بَنِى فُلَانٍ [ he took a wife from among the sons of such a one ]; nor is that of coitus unless by the same means, as when you say نَكَحَ زَوْجَتَهُ [ inivit conjugem suam ]; and this is one of the signs of a tropical expression. (Msb.) ― -b2- نَكَحَتْ She married, or took a husband. (S, K.) ― -b3- نَكَحَ المَطَرُ الأَرْضَ The rain became commingled with the soil: (Msb:) or, rested upon the ground so as to soak it; syn. اـِعْتَمَدَ عَلَيْهَا: (K:) as also ↓ نَاكَهَا. (L.) ― -b4- نَكَحَهُ الدَّوَى The disease infected him (خَامَرهُ), and overcame him. (Msb.) ― -b5- نَكَحَ النُّعَاسُ عَيْنَهُ (tropical:) Drowsiness overcame his eye; (K;) as also نَاكَهَا: and in like manner ↓ استنكح النَّوْمُ عَيْنَهُ sleep overcame his eye. (TA.)

3 نَاْكَحَ see 1.

4 انكحهُ المَرْأَةَ ذ He married the woman to him. (TA.) ― -b2- أَنْكَحَهَا He married the woman; i. e. gave her in marriage. (S, K.) ― -b3- أَنْكِحُوا الحَصَى أَخْفَافَ الاـِبِلِ (tropical:) [ Accustom ye the feet of the camels to pebbles ]. (A.)

6 تناكحوا ذ They intermarried; contracted marriages together. (Commencing a trad. in the Jámi' es-Sagheer.) [And تَنَاكَحَا Se invicem futuerunt: see 6, in art. ردف] ― -b2- تَنَاكَحَتِ الأَشْجَارُ The trees became drawn, or connected, together. (Msb.)

10 اـِسْتَنْكَحَ see 1.

نِكْحٌ ذ and ↓ نُكْحٌ substs. from أَنْكَحَهَا, [The act of giving a woman in marriage ]. (K.) ― -b2- [These two words are properly quasi-inf. ns, of أَنْكَحَ, signifying as explained above; and, like inf. ns., may be used as epithets, meaning A giver of a woman in marriage, correlative to خُِطْبٌ.] It was a custom, in the time of paganism, for a man to come to a tribe asking for a woman in marriage; and he would stand up in their assembly, and say خِطْبٌ, i. e., I have come as an asker of a woman in marriage; whereupon it would be said to him نِكْحٌ, meaning We marry her to thee, or give her to thee in marriage, [or, more lit., we are givers of her in marriage: for an inf. n. or quasi-inf. n. used as an epithet is used without variation as sing., dual., and pl.; and masc. and fem.]. ↓ نُكْحٌ was also said: but نِكْحٌ is here said for the sake of resemblance to خِطْبٌ. (L.) You say هو نِكْحُهَا He is the person who gives her in marriage: and هِىَ نِكْحَتُهُ She is the person whom he gives in marriage. (Lh, L) ― -b3- نِكْحٌ and ↓ نُكْحٌ, [and, accord. to Lth and ISh, نِكِحٌ: see اـِبِدٌ:] are also two words by which the [Pagan] Arabs used to take women in marriage: (S:) [meaning A giver of a woman in marriage ]. (MF, in art. خطب.) A man used to say to Umm-Khárijeh, in asking her in marriage, خُِطْبٌ, and she used to reply نُكِْحٌ: hence the saying أَسْرَعُ مِنْ نِكَاحِ أُمِّ خَارِجَةَ [ Quicker than the marriage of Umm-Khárijeh ]. (S, K.) [See خِطْبٌ].

نُكْحٌ ذ : see نِكْحٌ.

نُكَحٌ ذ : see نَكَحُةٌ.

رَجُلٌ نُكَحَةٌ ذ , (S, K,) and ↓ نُكَحٌ (K) A man who marries much, or often: (S, K, TA:) AZ explains the former by شَدِيدُ النِّكَاحِ, [app. meaning vehement in coitus, ] and mentions as its pl. نُكَحَاتٌ: (TA:) [and ↓ نَكَّاحٌ (A, TA, art. تيس, &c.) signifies the same.]

نَكَّاحٌ ذ : see نُكَحَةٌ.

نَاكِحٌ ذ (S, K) and نَاكِحَةٌ, (K,) the latter occurring in poetry, (TA,) A woman married; (TA;) having a husband. (S, K, TA.) Ex. هِىَ نَاكِحٌ فِى بَنِى فُلاَنٍ She has a husband among the sons of such a one. (S.)

مَنْكَِحٌ ذ and مَنْكُوحَةٌ: see مَنَاكِحُ.

مَنَاكِحُ ذ Women, or wives; syn. نِسَاآءٌ: (K:) a pl. having no sing.; or its sing. is ↓ مَنْكَحٌ; [or ↓ مَنْكِحٌ, which occurs in the S and K, art. علث, evidently as signifying a wife; as though being a place of نِكَاح;] or ↓ مَنْكُوحَةٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- اـِنَّ المَنَاكِحَ خَيْرَهُا الأَبْكَارُ [ Verily the best of women to take in marriage are virgins ]. A proverb. (TA.)

1 نَكِدَ ذ , aor. نَكَدَ , (S, K, &c.,) inf. n. نَكَدٌ, (S, L, Msb,) It (a man's life) was, or became, hard, or strait, and difficult. (S, L, Msb, K.) ― -b2- نَكِدَ It (a she-camel's milk) became deficient. (R.) ― -b3- نَكِدَ It (water) became exhausted. (A.) ― -b4- نَكِدَتِ الرَّكِيَّةُ The well came to have little water. (S, L, K.) ― -b5- نَكِدَ, aor. نَكَدَ , inf. n. نَكَدٌ, He was, or became, unpropitious, and mean: (L:) he became hard, or difficult: (Msb:) he gave little: or gave not at all: you say also نَكِدَ بِحَاجَتِنَا he was niggardly of that which we wanted. (L.) ― -b6- نَكَدَ حَاجَتَهُ, aor. نَكُدَ ; (K;) or نَكَدَهُ حَاجَتَهُ, (L,) He withheld from him, or refused him, his want. (L, K.) ― -b7- نَكَدَهُ, aor. نَكُدَ , He withheld from him, or refused him, what he asked: or [in the CK, and] the same, (K,) or نَكَدَهُ مَا سَأَلَهُ, aor. نَكُدَ , inf. n. نَكْدٌ, (L,) he gave him not save the least of what he asked. (L, K.) ― -b8- نُكِدَ, [in measure] like عُنِىَ, He had many askers and gave little. (K.) ― -b9- نَكَدَ, aor. نَكُدَ , He (a raven or crow) croaked with his utmost force; (A, K;) as though vomiting; as also ↓ تنكّد. (A.)

2 نَكَّدَ عَطَاآءَهُ بِا@لْمَنِّ ذ He impaired his gift by reproach. (A.) ― -b2- نكّد وَسْقَهُ He spent, or exhausted, what he possessed, in consequence of frequent petitions. (A.) ― -b3- نكّدهُ He vexed, distressed, or troubled, him; (Gol, from Meyd.) [as also نكّد عَلَيْهِ].

3 ناكدهُ ذ He treated him, or behaved towards him, with hardness, harshness, or ill-nature. (S, L, K.)

4 سَأَلَهُ فَأَنْكَدَهُ ذ He asked of him, and found him hard, or difficult, (A, L,) and mean, or niggardly: (L:) or found him to have only what was scanty, or little. (L.) ― -b2- طَلَبَ مِنْهُ حَاجَةً فَأَنْكَدَ He sought, or desired, of him a thing that he wanted, and he was niggardly. (A.)

5 تنكّد ذ [ He became vexed, distressed, or troubled ]. (A.) See Bd, in lxviii. 25: and see 1.

6 تناكدا ذ They treated each other with hardness, harshness, or ill-nature. (S, L, K.)

نَكْدٌ ذ : see نُكْدٌ, and نَكِدٌ.

نُكْدٌ ذ and ↓ نَكْدٌ Scantiness of a gift; (L, K;) and its not being enjoyed, or found pleasant, by the receiver. (L.) ― -b2- See what follows.

نَكَدًا لَهُ وجَحَدًا ذ , and له وجُحْدُا ↓ نُكْدًا, [ May God decree straitness, or difficulty, to him, and poverty ]: forms of imprecation. (L.) ― -b2- نَكَدٌ Anything that brings evil upon the person whom it affects. (L.) See نَكِدٌ.

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.)

نَكَادٌ ذ Hardness, or difficulty, in a man. (A.) See نَكِدَ.

أَرَضُونَ نِكَادٌ ذ Lands possessing little goods. (L.)

نَاكِدٌ ذ : see أَنْكَدُ.

أَنْكَدُ ذ . ― -b2- نَكْدَاآءُ A she-camel abounding with milk; (IF, L, K;) as also ↓ نَاكِدٌ: (L:) a she-camel that has no young one living, and therefore abounding with milk, because she does not suckle; (L; K;) so نَكْدَاآءُ مِقْلَاتٌ, of which the pls. occur in a verse of El-Kumeyt cited voce شَخَبَ: (S:) also, contr., a she-camel having no milk: (IF, A, K:) or having little milk; as also ↓ نَاكِدٌ: and both words, a she-camel whose young one has died: (L:) pl. (of both words, L) نُكْدٌ (S, L, K.) See also مَكْدَاآءُ. ― -b3- أَنْكَدُ Unfortunate; unlucky. (S.) See نَكِدٌ.

مُنَكَّدٌ ذ : see مَنْكُودٌ.

مَنْكُودٌ ذ A small, or scanty, gift; (A, L, K;) as also ↓ مُنَكَّدٌ (A.) ― -b2- مَنْكُودٌ A man having many askers and giving little: (TA:) or a man pressed with petitions; as also مَعْرُوكٌ and مَشْفُوهٌ and مَعْجُوزٌ. (IAar, L.)

جَاآءَهُ مُنْكِدًا ذ He came to him unwelcomely: or, empty: or, as Th says, it is correctly مُنْكِزًا, from نَكَرَتِ البِئْرُ, though أَنْكَزَ as meaning “ his wells became exhausted, ” has not been heard. (L.)

1 نَكِرَهُ ذ : see 4, in several places. -A2- نَكُرَ, inf. n. نَكَارَةٌ, [ He was, or became, ignorant: or perhaps only the inf. n. of the verb in this sense is used: see نَكَارَةٌ, below. ― -b2- And, contr., He possessed cunning; meaning both intelligence with craft and forecast; and simply intelligence, or skill and knowledge: or perhaps only the inf. n. of the verb in this sense is used: see نَكْرٌ. ― -b3- ] It (a thing, or an affair,) was, or became, مُنْكَر [app. here meaning disapproved; or bad, evil, abominable, or foul; or disallowed ]. (A.) ― -b4- Also, (S, K,) inf. n. نَكَارَةٌ, (TK,) or نُكْرَةٌ, (TA,) It (a thing, or an affair,) was, or became, difficult, hard, arduous, or severe. (S, K. *)

2 نكّرهُ ذ , (inf. n. تَنْكِيرٌ, Msb,) He changed, or altered, him or it, (S, A, Msb, TA,) to an unknown state, (S, TA,) so as not to be known; (TA;) [ he disguised him or it. ] It is said in the Kur, [xxvii. 41,] نَكِّرُوا لَهَا عَرْشَهَا Alter ye her throne so that it may not be known to her. (TA.) See also 4, last signification but one. ― -b2- [In grammar, He made it (a noun) indeterminate. ]

3 ناكرهُ ذ , (S, TA,) inf. n. مُنَاكَرَةٌ, (A, K,) He strove, or endeavoured, to outwit, deceive, beguile, or circumvent, him; or he practised with him mutual deceit, guile, or circumvention; syn. خَادَعَهُ and دَاهَاهُ: the inf. n. is also explained by مُرَاوَغَةٌ as well as مُخَادَعَةٌ [both of which signify the same]. (TA.) ― -b2- Hence, (TA,) He contended with him in fight; (S, K;) and in war, or hostility. (A, K.) It is said of Mohammad, by Aboo-Sufyán (S, TA) Ibn- Harb, (TA,) لَمْ يُنَاكِرْ أَحَدًا اـِلَّا كَانَتْ مَعَهُ الأَهْوَالُ, (S, TA,) meaning, He did not war with any one without being aided by terror [cast into the hearts of his opponents]. (TA.) And one says, بَيْنَهُمَا مُنَاكَرَةٌ Between them two is war, or hostility, (A, TA, *) and fighting. (TA.)

4 انكرهُ ذ , (S, A, Msb, K, &c.,) inf. n. اـِنْكَارٌ; (Msb, &c.;) and ↓ نَكِرَهُ, (S, A, Msb, K, &c.,) aor. نَكَرَ , (L,) or it does not admit the variations of tense like other verbs, (IKtt, Msb,) it is not used in the future tense, nor in commanding nor in forbidding, (Lth,) inf. n. نَكَرٌ (K) and نُكْرٌ and نُكُورٌ (S, K) and نَكِيرٌ; (K;) and ↓ استنكرهُ; (S, M, A, K;) and ↓ تناكرهُ; (M, K;) signify the same; (S, A, Msb, K, &c.;) i. e., He ignored, was ignorant of, did not know, failed to know, or [rather] was unacquainted with, it (i. e. a thing, or an affair, IKtt, K) or him (a man, S); syn. جَهِلَهُ; (Kr, K;) or contr. of عَرَفَهُ: (S, * IKtt, Msb:) [see also نَكَارَةٌ:] some, however, say, the نَكِرَ has a more intensive signification than أَنْكَرَ: and some, that نَكِرَ has for its objective complement an object of the mind; and أَنْكَرَ, an object of the sight: (A, TA:) or [the converse is the case;] نَكِرَ has for its objective complement an object of the sight; and أَنْكَرَ, an object of the mind: (Kull, p. 81:) [but both forms seem to have been generally used indiscriminately.] ElAashà says, وَأَنْكَرَتْنِى وَمَا كَانَ الَّذِى نَكِرَتْ مِنَ الحَوَادِثِ اـِلَّا الشَّيْبَ وَالصَّلَعَا [ And she did not know me; and the accidents which she did not know were none others than hoariness, and baldness of the fore part of the head ]. (S, TA.) And it is said in the Kur, [xi. 73,] وَأَوْجَسَ مِنْهُمْ خِيفَةٌ ↓ نَكِرَهُمْ [ He knew not what they were, and conceived a fear, or a kind of fear, of them ]: (TA:) نَكِرَهُمْ here signifies أَنْكَرَهُمْ: (Jel:) or it means أَنْكَرَ ذٰلِكَ مِنْهُمْ [q. v. infra]. (Bd.) ― -b2- أَنْكَرَهُ also signifies He denied, or disacknowledged, it; (L, art. جحد; [and this signification, as well as the first, may be meant to be indicated by those who say that أَنْكَرَهُ signifies the contr. of عَرفَهُ;]) [and so ↓ نَكِرَهُ; for] اـِنْكَارٌ signifies i. q. جُحُودٌ, (S, TA,) and so نُكْرَانٌ [which is an inf. n. of نَكِرَهُ]. (TA.) [In this sense it is doubly trans.:] you say, أَنْكَرْتُهُ حَقَّهُ, meaning, I denied, or disacknowledged, to him his right. (Msb.) The cause of اـِنْكَار with the tongue is اـِنْكَار with the mind, but sometimes the tongue denies, or disacknowledges, (يُنْكِرُ,) a thing when the image thereof is present in the mind; and this is lying; as is the case in the following passage of the Kur, [xvi. 85,] يَعْرِفُونَ نِعْمَةَ ا@للّٰهِ ثُمَّ يُنْكِرُونَهَا [ They confess, or acknowledge, the favour of God; then they deny, or disacknowledge, it ]. (B.) See also نَكِيرٌ. -A2- Also, He deemed it strange, extraordinary, or improbable. (MF, voce عَجَبٌ.] ― -b2- [Also He denied, or negatived, it. ― -b3- He disbelieved it. ― -b4- And He disapproved it; he disliked it; he deemed it, or declared it to be, bad, evil, abominable, or foul; he disallowed it: so accord. to explanations of the pass. part. n., q. v. infra; and accord. to common usage of classical and of modern times.] It is said of Abraham, when the angels came to him, and he saw that their hands did not touch the meat which be had brought to them, نَكِرَهُمْ, meaning, أَنْكَرَ ذٰلِكَ مِنْهُمْ [ He deemed that conduct of their's evil, or disapproved it: or, perhaps, he did not know what that conduct of their's was, or what it indicated ]: ↓ نَكِرَ and أَنْكَرَ and ↓ استنكر [of which last see an ex. voce تَهِمَ] signify the same. (Bd, xi. 73.) And you say, أَنْكَرْتُ عَلَيْهِ فِعْلَهُ, meaning, I blamed, or found fault with, his deed, and forbade it; I disapproved and disallowed his deed. (Msb:) [and I manifested, or showed, or declared, disapproval, or disallowance, of his deed: and in like manner, أَنْكَرْتُ عَليْهِ, elliptically; فِعْلَهُ, (his deed,) or قَوْلَهُ, (his saying;) or the like, being understood; like عَيَّرَ عَلَيْهِ for عَيَّرَ عَلَيْهِ فِعْلَهُ or the like: see نَكِيرٌ.] ― -b5- اـِنْكَارٌ also signifies The changing [a thing; like تَنْكِيرٌ]: (T, Msb, TA:) or the changing what is مُنْكَر [here app. meaning disapproved: see نَكِيرٌ, which is syn. with it, but is a simple subst.]. (S, TA.) ― -b6- مَا أَنْكَرَهُ How great it his cunning! meaning both his intelligence, and craft, and forecast; and simply, his intelligence, or skill and knowledge. (TA.) And مَا كَانَ أَنْكَرَهُ How great was his cunning, &c. (TA.)

5 تنكّر ذ He, or it, changed, or altered, himself, or itself; or became changed, or altered; (S, A, Msb, TA;) to an unknown state: (S, TA:) [ he assumed an unknown appearance: he disguised himself; or became disguised: ] he became changed or altered in countenance by anger so that he who saw him did not know him: (Har, p. 144:) or تَنَكُّرٌ signifies the changing, or altering oneself, or itself; or becoming changed, or altered; from a state which pleases one to a state which one dislikes. (T, K.) ― -b2- اـِيَّاكَ وَالتَّنَكُّرَ Avoid thou evil disposition. (Mgh.) ― -b3- تَنَكَّرَ لِى فُلاَنٌ Such a one [ became changed, or altered, in countenance to me by anger so that I did not know him; or] met me in a morose manner (A, TA.) [In art. شنف in the K, تَنَكَّرَهُ occurs.]

6 تناكرهُ ذ : see 4, first signification. ― -b2- تناكر He feigned ignorance. (S, A, K.) ― -b3- تناكروا They acted with mutual hostility. (TS, A, K.)

10 اشتنكرهُ ذ : see 4, first signification, and also in the latter part. ― -b2- اِسْتِنْكَارٌ also signifies The inquiring respecting, or seeking to understand, a thing, or an affair, which one disapproves; (K, TA;) when one disapproves confirming, or establishing, the opinion expressed by an inquirer, or disapproves that his opinion should be contrary to what he has expressed. (TA.)

نَكْرٌ ذ : see نُكْرٌ. -A2- See also نَكِرٌ.

نُكْرٌ ذ (S, K) and ↓ نَكْرٌ [but the former is the more common] and ↓ نَكَارَةٌ (S, A, K) and ↓ نَكْرَاآءُ (A, K) Cunning; meaning both intelligence mixed with croft and forecast; and [simply] intelligence, or sagacity, or skill and knowledge; syn. دَهَاآءٌ; (S, A, K;) and فِطْنَةٌ. (A, K.) See also نَكُرَ. You say of a man who is intelligent and evil, or cunning, مَا أَشَدَّ نُكْرَهُ, and ↓ نَكْرَهُ [ How great is his cunning, &c.!] (S.) And فَعَلَهُ مِنْ نُكْرِهِ, and ↓ نَكَارَتِهِ, He did it of his cunning, &c. (TA.) And it is said in a trad. of Mo'áwiyeh, اـِنِّى لَأَكْرَهُ النَّكَارَةَ فِى الرَّجُلِ Verily I hate cunning (الدَّهَاآءَ) in the man. (TA.) -A2- نُكْرٌ, as an epithet, applied to a thing, or an affair, Difficult, hard, arduous, or severe; as also ↓ نُكُرٌ (M, A, K) and ↓ نَكِيرٌ: (TA:) and i. q. مُنْكَرٌ, q. v. (S, A, K.)

نَكَرٌ ذ [app. Difficulty, hardness, arduousness, or severity; ] a subst. from نَكُرَ, in the sense of صَعُبَ [It was difficult, &c.]. (IKtt, TA.)

نَكُرٌ ذ : see نَكِرٌ, in two places.

نَكِرٌ ذ and ↓ نَكُرٌ (S, K) and ↓ نُكُرٌ and ↓ مُنْكَرٌ, (K,) epithets applied to a man, Possessing cunning; or intelligence mixed with cunning and forecast; (S, K;) and [simply] intelligent, or skilful and knowing: (K:) and so, applied to a woman, ↓ نُكُرٌ (K) and ↓ نَكْرٌ (L, TA [but this is probably a mistake for ↓ نُكُرٌ]) and ↓ نَكْرَاآءُ, but أَنْكَرُ is not applied to a man in this sense, (Az, TA,) nor is مُنْكَرَةٌ to a woman: (TA:) pl. of the first and second (S, K,) and third, (K,) أَنْكَارٌ: (S, K:) and of the last, مَنَاكِيرُ: (Sb, S, K:) or, applied to men, مُنْكَرُونَ; and to other things, مَنَاكِيرُ [which is irreg.]. (Az, TA.) ― -b2- Also, نَكِرٌ and ↓ نَكُرٌ One who disapproves what is bad, evil, abominable, or foul; expl. by أَلَّذِى يُنْكِرُ ا@لْمُنْكَرَ: pl. as above. (S.)

نُكُرٌ ذ : see نُكْرٌ, and مُنْكَرٌ. -A2- See also نَكِرٌ, in two places.

نَكَرَةٌ ذ a subst. from اـِنْكَارٌ, (K,) with which it is syn., [app. signifying (like نَكِرَةٌ) Ignorance: or denial: or disapproval, or the like ]. (TK,) like نَفَقَةٌ from اـِنْفَاقٌ. (K.) It is said, in a certain trad, كُنْتَ لِى أَشَدَّ نَكَرَةً, (TA,) i. e. اـِنْكَارًا, (TK,) [ Thou wast to me most ignorant. &c.]

نَكِرَةٌ ذ Ignorance, &c., (اـِنْكَار,) of a thing; (TA;) contr. of مَعْرِفَةٌ; (S, K;) and so ↓ نَكَارَةٌ; syn. جَهَالَةٌ; as in the phrase فِيهِ نَكَارَةٌ [ In him is ignorance ]. (A.) See also نَكَرَةٌ. ― -b2- [As contr. of مَعْرِفَةٌ, it is also, in grammar, an epithet applied to a noun, signifying Indeterminate, or indefinite. ]

نَكْرَاآءُ ذ : see مُنْكَرٌ. ― -b2- A calamity: (K:) rigour, or severity, of fortune; (A, TA;) as also [its dim.] نُكَيْرَاآء. (TA.) -A2- See also نُكْرٌ. -A3- And see نَكِرٌ.