Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

نَكِيرٌ ذ i. q. اـِنْكَارٌ [in the sense of Denial ]. (K.) It is said in the Kur, xlii. 46. فَمَا لَكُمْ مِنْ نَكِيرٍ And there shall be for you no [power of] denial of your sins. (Bd, Jel.) And one says, شُتِمَ فُلَانٌ فَمَا كَانَ عِنْدَهُ نَكِيرٌ [ Such a one was reviled and he had no denial to make ]. (A.) ― -b2- [Also, i. q. اـِنْكَارٌ in the sense of Disapproval, or the like: and manifestation thereof. See what here follows.] ― -b3- Also, i. q. اـِنْكَارٌ in the sense of The changing [a thing]: (T, Msb, TA:) or the changing what is مُنْكَر [here app. meaning disapproved ]: (S, TA:) a simple subst. (T, TA.) The words of the Kur, [xxii. 43 and lxvii. 18,] فَكَيْفَ كَانَ نَكِيرِ are explained as signifying And how was my changing [of their condition]! (TA:) or the meaning is, and how was my manifestation of disapproval of their conduct, (اـِنْكَارِى عَلَيْهِمْ,) by changing favour into trial, and life into destruction, and a flourishing condition into a state of ruin! (Bd, xxii. 43.) In [some of] the copies of the K, it is said that نَكِيرَةٌ [but in a MS. copy I find نَكِيرٌ and so in the CK] is a subst. from تَنَكُّرٌ as signifying the changing, or altering, oneself, or itself; or becoming changed, or altered; from a state which please one to a state which one dislikes: but a different statement is found in the T: [see above.] and نكيرة is not mentioned by any authority. (TA.) -A2- A strong fortress. (Sgh, K.) See نُكْرٌ. -A3- See also مُنْكَرٌ.

نَكَارَةٌ ذ : see نَكِرَةٌ. -A2- See also نُكْرٌ.

أَنْكَرُ ذ Worse, and worst; more, and most, evil, abominable, or foul. So it is explained as occurring in the Kur. [xxxi. 18,] اـِنّ أَنْكَرَ ا@لْأَصْوَاتِ لَصَوْتُ الحَمِيرِ [ Verily the most abominable of voices is the voice of asses ]. (TA.) ― -b2- See also نَكِرٌ: and the fem., نَكْرَاآءُ, see above.

مُنْكَرٌ ذ contr. of مَعْرُوفٌ: (K:) [an explanation including several significations, here following.] ― -b2- [ Ignored, or unknown; as also ↓ مَنْكُورٌ, for مَنْكُورٌ is syn. with مَجْهُولٌ [the pass. part. n. of the verb by which أَنْكَرَهُ is explained by Kr and in the K]; (TA;) and ↓ مُسْتَنْكَرٌ signifies the same. (L.) For the pls. of مُنْكَرٌ, see نَكِرٌ. ― -b3- [ Denied, or disacknowledged. (See the verb.) ― -b4- Deemed strange, extraordinary, or improbable, (See again the verb.)] ― -b5- Any action disapproved, or disallowed, by sound intellects; or deemed, or declared, thereby, to be bad, evil, hateful, abominable, foul, unseemly, ugly, or hideous; or pronounced to be so by the law because the mind deliberates respecting the regarding it as such: and thus it is used in the Kur, ix. 113 [and other places]: (B, TA:) or anything pronounced to be bad, evil, hateful, abominable, or foul, and forbidden, and disapproved, disliked, or hated, by the law: (TA:) a saying, or an action, unapproved, not approved, unaccepted, or not accepted, by God: (KT:) unbecoming, indecent, or indecorous. (KL.) See مَعْرُوفٌ, voce عُرْفٌ. مُنْكَرٌ and ↓ نُكْرٌ and ↓ نُكُرٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and ↓ نَكْرَاآءُ (S, Msb K) are all syn., (S, A, Msb, K,) [and are used as epithets in which the quality of a subst. predominates,] signifying a bad, an evil, a hateful, an abominable, a foul, an unseemly, an ugly, or a hideous, [and a formidable, ] thing or affair [or action or saying or quality, &c.]: (Msb:) [in this sense, its pl. is مُنْكَرَاتٌ and مَنَاكِيرُ; as will be seen below:] ↓ نُكْرٌ is contr. of عُرْفٌ [which is syn. with مَعْرُوفٌ]. (TA.) You say فِيهِمُ ا@لْمَعْرُوفُ وَا@لْمُنْكَرُ, and العُرْفُ والنُّكْرُ, [ In them are good and evil qualities. ] And هُمْ يَرْكَبُونَ ا@لْمُنْكَرَاتِ, and المَنَاكِيرَ, [ They commit bad, evil, abominable, or foul, actions. ] (A.) And it is said in the Kur, [xviii. 73,] لَقَدْ جِئْتَ شَيْئًا نُكْرًا [ Verily thou hast done a bad, an evil, an abominable, or a foul, thing ]. (S.) -A2- The name of one of two angels, the other of whom is named نَكِيرٌ; (S;) who are the two triers of [the dead in] the graves. (ISd, K.) -A3- See also نَكِرٌ.

مَنْكُورٌ ذ : see مُنْكَرٌ, first signification. The pl. is مَنَاكِيرُ, [which is also a pl. of مُنْكَرٌ,] accord. to Sb, who mentions it because, accord. to rule, the pl. of a sing. of this class is formed by the addition of و and ن for the masc., and ا and ت for the fem. (Abu-l-Hasan, TA.)

خَرَجَ مُتَنَكِّرًّا ذ He went forth disguised; or changed in outward appearance, or state of apparel. (TA.)

مُسْتَنْكَرٌ ذ : see مُنْكَرٌ, first signification.

طَرِيقٌ يَنْكُورٌ ذ A road, or way, in a wrong direction. (S, K.)

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1 نَكَسَهُ ذ , (S, A, Msb, K,) aor. نَكُسَ , inf. n. نَكْسٌ, (S, Msb,) He turned it over, or upside down; inverted it; reversed it; changed its manner of being, or state: (Sh, Msb: *) he turned it over upon its head: (S, A, K:) and he turned it fore part behind; made the first part of it to be last; or put the first part of it last: (Sh:) and ↓ نكّسهُ, (S, A, K) inf. n. تَنْكِيسٌ, (S,) signifies the same; (S, * A, K;) or has an intensive sense. (TA.) You say, نُكِسَ السَّهْمُ فِى الكِنَانَةِ The arrow was turned, or put, upside down in the quiver. (TA.) And it is said in the Kur, [xxxvi. 68,] وَمَنْ نُعَمِّرْهُ نَنْكُسْهُ فِى الخَلْقِ, or, accord. to the reading of 'Ásim and Hamzeh, ↓ نُنَكِّسْهُ; meaning, And him whom We cause to live long, We cause him to become in a state the reverse of that in which he was, in constitution; so that after strength, he becomes reduced to weakness; and after youthfulness, to extreme old age. (TA.) ― -b2- نَكَسْتُ فُلَانًا فِى ذٰلِكَ الأَمْرِ (assumed tropical:) I made such a one to enter again into that affair, or state, after he had got out of it. (ISh.) [Hence the saying in the Kur, xxi. 66,] ثُمَّ نُكِسُوا عَلَى رُؤُوسِهِمْ (assumed tropical:) Then they were made to return to their disbelief: (Jel:) or (tropical:) then they reverted to disputation, after they had taken the right course by means of consulting together; their return to falsity being likened to a thing's becoming upside down: and there are two other readings; ↓ نُكِّسُوا, and نَكَسُوا; the latter meaning نَكَسُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ: (Bd;) or (assumed tropical:) then they reverted from what they knew, of the evidence in favour of Abraham. (Fr.) ― -b3- [And hence,] نَكَسَهُ, and نَكَسَهُ اـِلَى مَرَضِهِ, (tropical:) It made him to fall back into his disease. ] (TA, in art. هيض.) And نُكِسَ, (S, Msb, K,) or نُكِسَ فِى مَرَضِهِ, (A, TA,) inf. n. نُكْسٌ (S, Msb, K) and نَكْسٌ (TA, [but see what is said of this below]) and نُكَاسٌ, (Sh, K,) (tropical:) He relapsed into his disease, after convalescence, or after recovery, but not complete, of health and strength: (S, A, K:) or the disease returned to him; [ he relapsed into the disease; ] as though he were made to turn back to it. (Msb.) You say, أَكَلَ كَذَا فَنُكِسَ (tropical:) [ He ate such a thing, and relapsed into his disease ]. (A, TA.) And تَعْسًا لَهُ وَنُكْسًا, and sometimes one says, نَكْسًا, (S, K,) in this case, (S,) for the sake of mutual resemblance, (S, K,) or because نَكْسًا is a dial form [of نُكْسًا], (S,) [meaning, (assumed tropical:) May he fall upon his face, or the like, (see art. تعس,) and relapse into disease: or] may he fall upon his face, and not rise after his fall until he fall a second time: and in like manner you say, ↓ تَعَسَ وَا@نْتَكَسَ. (Msb, art. تعس.) [See also 8.] You say also, نُكِسَ الجُرْحُ (assumed tropical:) [ The wound broke open again; or became recrudescent ]. (S, in arts. عرب and حبط, &c.) ― -b4- And نَكَسَ الطَّعَامُ وَغَيْرُهُ دَاآءَ المَرِيضِ (tropical:) The food, &c., made the disease of the sick man to return. (K.) And نَكَسَ الخِضَابَ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ (tropical:) He put the dye upon his head repeatedly, or several times. (A, TA. *) ― -b5- Also نَكَسَ [or more probably نُكِسَ] (assumed tropical:) He (a man) became weak and impotent. (Sh, in TA.) And نُكِسَ عَنْ نُظَرَائِهِ, like عُنِىَ, (assumed tropical:) He fell short of his fellows; was unable to attain to them. (TA.) ― -b6- نَكَسَ رَأْسَهُ, and ↓ نكّسهُ, (TA,) [and نَكَسَ alone, (see نَاكِسٌ,)] and ↓ نكّس, (L, TA, art. بقر,) and ↓ انتكس, (TA,) [and in like manner ↓ تنكّس, said of a flower-stalk in the M and K, voce قِشْبٌ,] He bent, or inclined, his head; (TA;) he lowered, or stooped, his head; bent, or hung, it down towards the ground; absolutely; or by reason of abasement. (So accord. to explanations of the act. part. n., below.)

2 نَكَّسَ see 1, throughout.

5 تَنَكَّسَ see 1, last sentence.

8 انتكس ذ quasi-pass. of نَكَسَهُ; (S, A, TA;) [and therefore signifying It became turned over, or upside down; became turned over upon its head; became inverted; became reversed; became changed in its manner of being, or state; it became turned fore part behind; its first part was made to be last, or was put last: ] he fell upon his head. (K.) This last signification [understood figuratively] it is said to have in the phrase تَعَسَ وَا@نْتَكَسَ, a form of imprecation, meaning, (assumed tropical:) May he be disappointed, or fail, of attaining his desire: for he who is overthrown in his affair (مَن ا@نْتَكَسَ فِى أَمْرِهِ) is disappointed of attaining his desire, and suffers loss. (TA.) [See also 1, where this form of imprecation is differently explained.] ― -b2- Also, i. q. نَكَّسَ رَأَسَهُ. (TA.) [See 1, last signification.]

نِكْسٌ ذ An arrow having its notch broken, and its top therefore made its bottom: (S, A, K:) pl. [of pauc.] أَنْكَاسٌ (A, TA) and [of mult.] نُكُسٌ. (A.) ― -b2- A head, or blade, of an arrow &c., having its tongue (سِنْخ) broken, and its point therefore made its tongue: (K:) pl. أَنْكَاسٌ. (TA.) ― -b3- A bow of which the foot is made [ of ] the head of the branch; as also ↓ مَنْكُوسَةٌ. This peculiarity is a fault. (K.) ― -b4- A child such as is termed يَتْنٌ [ born preposterously, feet foremost; but يَتْنٌ is an inf. n., and I have not found it used as an epithet anywhere but in this instance]; (K;) i. q. مَنْكُوسٌ; and mentioned by IDrd; but he says that it is not of established authority. (TA.) ― -b5- (tropical:) Low, or ignoble; base; vile; mean, or sordid: See a verse cited voce أَشَّعَلَ: (A:) (tropical:) one who falls short of the utmost point of generosity; (K;) or of courage and generosity: (TA:) (assumed tropical:) weak; (S, K;) applied to a man: (S:) (assumed tropical:) short: (AHn:) pl. أَنْكَاسٌ. (A, K.) ― -b6- See also مُنَكِّسٌ: ― -b7- and نُكُسٌ.

نُكَسٌ ذ , [app. pl. of نِكْسٌ,] (assumed tropical:) Old men tottering by reason of age (مُدْرَهِمُّونَ) after attaining to extreme old age. (K.)

نَاكِسٌ ذ Lowering his head; bending, or hanging, down his head towards the ground; [absolutely;] (S, K;) [or] by reason of abasement: (TA:) pl. [properly نَاكِسُونَ; (see Kur, xxxii. 12;) and sometimes] نَوَاكِسُ, (S, K,) used [only] in poetry, (S, TA,) by reason of necessity, (TA,) and anomalous, (S, K,) like فَوَارِسُ. (S.) ElFarezdak says, وَاـِذَا الرِّجَالُ رَأَوْا يَزِيدَ رَأَيْتَهُم خُضُعَ الرِّقَابِ نَوَاكِسَ الأَبْصَارِ [ And when the men see Yezeed, thou seest them depressed in the necks, lowering the eyes ]: (S:) thus the verse is related by Fr and Ks: Akh says, that it is allowable to say نَوَاكِسِ الأَبْصَارِ, after the manner of the phrase حُجْرُ ضَبٍّ خَرِبٍ; [see art. خرب;] and Ahmad Ibn-Yahyà adds ى in relating it; saying نَوَاكِسِى الأَبْصَارِ. (TA.) [See the remarks on فَوَارِسُ, pl. of فَارِسٌ.]

مُنَكِّسٌ ذ A horse that does not raise, or elevate, his head, (S, IF, K,) nor his neck, when running, by reason of weakness: (IF, K:) or that has not reached the other horses (Lth, K) in their heat, or single run to a goal; (Lth;) i. e., by reason of his weakness and impotence; as also ↓ نِكْسٌ. (TA.)

وَلَدٌ مَنْكُوسٌ ذ A child [ preposterously brought forth; whose feet come forth before his head. (A, Msb, and so in a copy of the S.) See also نِكْسٌ. ― -b2- وِلَادٌ مَنْكُوسٌ [ Preposterous childbirth ] is when the feet come forth before the head; (K, and so in a copy of the S, [and that this is what was meant by the author of the S seems to be indicated by what immediately follows]) i. q. يَتْنُ. (S.) ― -b3- طَوَافٌ مَنْكُوسٌ A circuiting of the Kaabeh performed in a way contrary to the prescribed custom, by saluting the black stone and then going towards the left. (Mgh.) ― -b4- قَرَأَ القُرَاآنَ مَنْكُوسًا He read or recited, the Kur-án, beginning from the last part thereof, (K,) i. e. from [ the commencement of the latter of ] the مُعَوِّذَتَانِ [or last two chapters ], (TA,) and ending with the فَاتِحَة [or first chapter ]; contrary to the prescribed mode: (TA:) or beginning from the end of the chapter, and reading it, or reciting it, to its beginning, invertedly; (K;) a mode which A 'Obeyd thinks impossible; and therefore he holds the former explanation to be the right: (TA:) each of these practices is disapproved, excepting the former in teaching children, [in which case it is generally adopted in the present day,] (K,) and [in teaching] the foreigner the [portion of the Kur-án called the] مُفَصَّل; an indulgence being granted to these two only because the long chapters are difficult to them: but if any one knows the Kur-án by heart, and intentionally recite it from the last part thereof to the first, this is forbidden: and if we disapprove this, still more is the reciting from the end of the chapter to the beginning disapproved, if the doing this be possible. (TA.) ― -b5- مَنْكُوسٌ also signifies (tropical:) Suffering a relapse into disease, after convalescence; or after recovery, but not complete, of health and strength. (K.) ― -b6- مَنْكُوسَةٌ applied to a bow: see نِكْسٌ.

1 نَكَشَ البِئْرَ ذ , (S, A,) or الرَّكِيَّةَ, (K,) aor. نَكِشَ (Az, S, ISd, K) and نَكُشَ , (IDrd, K,) inf. n. نَكْشٌ, (A,) He entirely exhausted the water of the well: (Az, S, A:) and (A) he extracted what was in the well, of black fetid mud (حَمْأَة [in some of the copies of the K, خَبِيْئَة, which is a mistranscription,]) and of clay: (A, K;) as also ↓ اـِنْتَكَشَهَا (Sgh, K.) Hence the saying, فَلَانٌ بَحْرٌ لَا يُنْكَشُ (S, K *) (assumed tropical:) [ Such a one is ] a sea, or great river, which will not be entirely exhausted, nor will diminish. (K.) And عِنْدَهُ شَجَاعَةٌ لَا تُنْكَشُ (S, TA.) (tropical:) He has courage which will not be exhausted: said of 'Alee, by a man of Kureysh. (TA.) ― -b2- And نَكَشَ الشَّىْءَ He consumed the thing; made it come to an end, fail, cease, perish, or come to nought: (A, K:) and the same, (ISd, A,) aor. and inf. n. as above, (M,) or نَكَشَ مِنْهُ, (Lth, K,) he made an end of the thing; or ceased from it, having finished it. (Lth, ISd, A, K; but in [some of] the copies of the K, فَزِعَ is put by mistake for فَرَغَ, in this explanation. TA.) One says, اـِنْتَهَوْا اـِلَى عُشْبٍ فَنَكَشُوهُ They came at last to herbage, and consumed it. (S, * TA.) And لُمْعَةٌ مَا تُنْكَشُ [ A piece of herbage beginning to dry up ] that is not extirpated, or cut off entirely with its roots. (K.) ― -b3- نَكْشٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) The scrutinizing or investigating, or searching or examining or inquiring into, affairs. (TA.) [You say, app., نَكَشَ عَنِ الأُمُورِ, meaning, He scrutinized, &c., affairs. ] ― -b4- And نَكَشَانٌ is like نَكْشٌ [but in what sense is not said]. (TA.)

8 اـِنْتَكَشَ see 1, first sentence.

نَكَّاشٌ ذ (assumed tropical:) A man who scrutinizes or investigates, or searches or examines or inquires into, affairs; (TA;) as also ↓ مِنْكَشٌ. (IDrd, K.)

مِنْكَشٌ ذ : see نَكَّاشٌ.

مِنْكَاشٌ ذ a dial. form of مِنْقَاشٌ, but of weak authority. (TA.)

مَنْكُوشٌ ذ A receptacle of the kind called سَفَط of which the contents have been taken out. (TA.) ― -b2- هُوَ مَنْكُوشٌ مِنَ المَنَاكِيشِ (assumed tropical:) [ He is one of those who are empty, or devoid of good ]: a phrase denoting vituperation. (TA.)

1 نَكَصَ عَنِ الأَمْرِ ذ , (A, K,) [aor. نَكِصَ , and sometimes نَكُصَ , as will be shown below,] inf. n. نُكُوصٌ (S, IF, A, Msb, K) and نَكُصٌ (A, K) and مَنْكَصٌ (K) and نَكَصَانٌ, (MA,) He receded, retired, or drew back from the thing, or affair, refrained, forbore, abstained, or desisted, from it; recoiled from it, shrank from it, or drew back from it in awe or fear; (S, IF, A, Msb, K;) as also نَكَثَ عَنْهُ. (Aboo-Turáb, TA.) You say also, نَكَصَ عَلَى عَقِبَيْهِ, (S, Msb, K,) or على عَقِبِهِ, (A,) aor. نَكُصَ (S, Msb) and نَكِصَ , (S,) or the latter only, (Sgh, TA,) or the former is allowable, (Zj, TA,) He turned back from a thing to which he had applied himself; (IDrd, S, * A, * Msb, * K, TA;) meaning a good thing; and sometimes an evil thing; (IDrd, TA;) or meaning particularly a good thing; or extr. with respect to an evil thing. (K.) [See the Kur, xxiii. 68.] Hence ↓ انتكص [as syn. with نكص], though we have not heard it. (Mgh.)

8 اـِنْتَكَصَ see above.

حَظُّهُ نَاقِصٌ وَجَدُّهُ نَاكصٌ ذ (tropical:) [ His lot, or portion, is decreasing, or deficient, and his good fortune is receding ]. (A, TA.)

مَنْكَصٌ ذ , (O, B, K,) like مَقْعَدٌ, (TA,) [in the CK, erroneously, مُنَكَّص,] A place to which one removes, withdraws, or retires afar off, syn. مُتَنَحًّى. (O, B, K.) El-Aashà says, praising 'Alkamah Ibn-'Olátheh, أَعَلْقَمُ قَدْ جَبَرَتْنِى الأُمُورُ اـِلَيْكَ وَمَا كَانَ لِى مَنْكَصُ [ O 'Alkamah, affairs have compelled me to have recourse to thee, and there was not for me any place to which to retire. (TA.)

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نَمَأٌ ذ and نَمْءٌ Little live. (Kr, K.) [See also نِمَّةٌ.]

نَمْتٌ ذ A certain plant, having a fruit that is eaten. (L, K.) The only explanation given by several lexicographers. (TA.)

نَمُوذَجٌ ذ (K, Msb &c.) and أَنْمُوذَجٌ; which latter is said to be a corruption in the TS and the K; but this is denied by El-Khafájee and by Mtr; and learned men, in early and in late times, have constantly used the word انموذج without any expression of disapproval; Z and El-Hasan Ibn-Rasheek El-Keyrawánee, two leading lexicologists, having even named thereby books written by them; (MF;) vulgo نَمُونَه [which is a Persian word]; (TA;) A model, an exemplar, a pattern, or a likeness of a thing, after the similitude of which a thing is made: (Msb:) a model, or likeness, of a thing; (K;) i. e., a thing that is made in the form, or after the fashion, of another thing, that the mode of the latter may be known thereby: (TA:) a thing which shows the mode, or quality, or qualities, of another thing: (Msb:) an arabicized word, (K,) from [the Persian] نَمُودَهْ.

1 نَمِرَ ذ , aor. -, (S, K,) inf. n. نَمَرٌ, (S,) [ It was, or became, spotted like a leopard or panther: see also 5:] it (a cloud, or collection of clouds,) became of the colour of the نَمِر [ leopard or panther ], (S, K,) spots being seen in their interstices. (S.) -A2- See also 5, in three places.

2 نمّر ذ , inf. n. تَنْمِيرٌ, (assumed tropical:) He, or it, changed, or altered, and rendered morose, his face. (T.) -A2- See also 5, in two places.

5 تنمّر ذ [ He made himself like a leopard or panther, in diversity of colours: see also 1]. 'Amr Ibn-Maadee-Kerib says, قَوْمٌ اـِذَا لَبِسُوا الحَدِي دَ تَنَمَّرُوا حَلَقًا وَقِدَّا [ A people who, when they put on armour of iron mail,] make themselves like the leopard or panther (نَمِر) in the diversity of colours of the iron [ rings ] and the thongs. (S.) ― -b2- (assumed tropical:) He made himself like the leopard or panther (نَمِر, K, TA) in ill-nature: (TA:) (tropical:) he became angry; as also ↓ نَمِرَ, (M,) aor. نَمَرَ , inf. n. ↓ نَمَرٌ; (TA;) and ↓ نمّر: (M:) (tropical:) he became evil in disposition; as also ↓ نَمِرَ: (T:) (tropical:) he became angry and evil in disposition; as also ↓ نَمِرَ and ↓ نمّر; (IKtt, Sgh, K;) like the نَمِر: (TA:) (tropical:) he strained the voice in threatening: (Sgh, K:) and تنمّر لَهُ (assumed tropical:) he became ill-natured and altered to him, and threatened him; because the نَمِر is never met otherwise than angry and illnatured. (As, S, K.)

نِمْرٌ ذ : see نَمِرٌ.

نَمِرٌ ذ : see أَنْمَرُ, throughout. ― -b2- نَمِرٌ (S, A, Msb, K, &c.) and نِمْرٌ, (M, A, Msb, K,) which is a contraction of the former, (Msb,) or a dial. form, (TA,) [The leopard; ] a certain wild beast, (S, A, Msb, K, &c.) well known, (A, K,) more malignant than the lion, (T, M, Mgh, Msb,) and bolder, (Msb,) so called because of his نُمَر [or spots ], (M, K,) being of divers colours, (M,) called in Persian Pَلَنْكْ: (Mgh:) fem. with ة: (S, Msb:) pl. [of pauc.] أَنْمُرٌ (M, K) and أَنْمَارٌ, (M, Msb, K,) and [of mult.] نُمُورٌ, (S, M, Msb, K,) held by Th to be pl. of نِمْرٌ, (M,) and نُمُورَةٌ (Msb, and so in some copies of the K) and نُمُرٌ, (S, M, K,) which occurs in poetry, and is anomalous, perhaps a contraction of نُمُورٌ, (S,) and not mentioned by Sb, (M,) and نُمْرٌ, (M, K,) which is the most common in occurrence, but, accord. to Th, he who uses it makes the sing. أَنْمَرُ, (M,) and نِمَارٌ, (M, K,) held by Th to be pl. of نِمْرٌ, (M,) and نِمَارَةٌ. (K.) As the نَمِر is one of the most abominable and malignant of wild beasts, one says, لَبِسَ فُلَانٌ لِفُلَانٍ جِلْدَ النَّمِرِ, meaning, (tropical:) Such a one became changed, or altered, to such a one; or met him in a morose manner: (IB:) or became very rancourous, or malicious, towards him. (TA.) The kings of the Arabs, when they sat [in judgment] to slay a man, used to attire themselves in skins of the نَمِر, and then give orders for the slaying of him whom they desired to slay. (IB.) -A2- See also نَمِيرٌ, throughout.

نُمْرَةٌ ذ A spot, or speck, of any colour whatever: pl. نُمَرٌ. (M, K.)

نَمِرَةٌ ذ A garment of the kind called بُرْدَة, of wool, (S, K, TA,) striped, (TA,) worn by the Arabs of the desert: (S, K, TA:) or a garment of the kind called شَمْلَة, (M, K,) or كِسَاآء, (A, Mgh, Msb,) having white and black stripes, or lines, (M, Mgh, Msb, K,) worn by the Arabs of the desert: (A, Msb:) and a garment of the kind called حِبَرَة; (M, K;) so called because of the diversity of the colours of its stripes: (M:) or any مئْزَر, of those worn by the Arabs of the desert, that is a striped شَمْلَة: (IAth:) or a striped اـِزَار of wool; (TA;) pl. نِمَارٌ: (IAth, Msb:) it is an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates. (TA.) It is said in a trad. of Saad, نَبَطِىٌّ فِى حُبْوَتِهِ أَعْرَابىٌّ فِى نَمِرَتِهِ أَسَدٌ فِى تَأْمُورَتِهِ [ A Nabathean in his hubweh (a long piece of cloth, or the like, wound round the back and legs of a person sitting with his thighs against his belly); an Arab of the desert in his nemireh; a lion in his den ]. (S.) ― -b2- See also أَنْمَرُ.

مَاآءٌ نَمِير ذ (T, S, M, A, K) and ↓ نَمِرٌ, (M, K,) Wholesome water, whether sweet or not sweet: (S, K:) or sweet and wholesome water: (T, A:) or wholesome in satiety: (TA:) or copious: (Ibn-Keyrán, M, K:) or increasing in quantity, syn. نَامٍ, (As, T, TA,) or زَاكٍ, (K,) whether sweet or not sweet: (T, TA:) or increasing in quantity in the beasts [app. meaning while they drink], (زَاكٍ فِى المَاشِيَة نَامٍ, T, M,) whether sweet or not sweet. (M.) [As زَاكٍ is coupled with نَامٍ, app. as an explicative adjunct, in the T and M, I think that I have here rendered it correctly: otherwise I should have supposed it to mean, perhaps, pure. ] ― -b2- حَسَبٌ نَمِيرٌ, (S, M, A, K,) and ↓ نَمِرٌ, (M, K,) (tropical:) i. q. زَاكٍ [see above]: (S, M, A, K:) pl. أَنْمَارٌ. (M.)

أَنْمَرُ ذ Spotted white and black: (M, K:) or in which is black and white; applied to a wild beast; as also ↓ نَمِرٌ: (A:) fem. نَمْرَاآءُ; (M, A, K;) applied to a ewe or she-goat: (A:) pl. نُمْرٌ: (A:) also أَنْمَرُ a horse, (S, K,) and an ostrich, (K,) variegated like the نَمِر, (S, K, TA,) having one spot white and another of any colour: (S, TA:) pl. as above: (TA:) or, applied to an ostrich, in which is blackness and whiteness: pl. as above: (S:) and a lion in which is dust-colour and blackness: and ↓ مُنَمَّرٌ a bird having black spots; also sometimes applied as an epithet to a horse such as is termed بِرْذَوْن. (TA.) Also, A collection of clouds of the colour of the نَمِر, spots being seen in their interstices: (S:) or having black and white spots: (TA:) and ↓ نَمِرٌ signifies a collection of clouds having marks like those of the نَمِر: or small portions near together: n. un. with ة: (M:) or ↓ نَمِرَةٌ signifies a small portion of a cloud: and its pl. [or rather the coll. gen. n.] is نَمِرٌ. (K.) It is said in a proverb, أَرِنِيهَا نَمِرَةً أُرِكَهَا مَطِرَةً [ Show thou it to me spotted like the leopard, I will show it to thee raining ]: (S, K:) alluding to an event which one certainly knows will happen when the symptoms thereof appear: (Meyd, K, TA:) originally said by Aboo-Dhueyb El-Hudhalee: (TA:) نَمِرَة is here like خَضِرًا in the Kur, vi. 99, for أَخْضَرَ: (Akh, S:) by rule, it should be نَمْرَاآءَ, (K, TA,) fem. of أَنْمَرُ. (TA.) ― -b2- See also نَمِرٌ.

مُنَمَّرٌ ذ : see أَنْمَرُ. [In the TA, voce حِبَرَةٌ, it is applied as an epithet to a garment of the kind called بُرْد: and in the K, voce حَبِيرٌ, to a cloud, or collection of clouds: in the former case, it app. signifies striped, (see نَمِرَةٌ,) or, as in the latter case, spotted. ]

1 نَمَسَهُ ذ , aor. نَمُسَ , inf. n.نَمْسٌ, He concealed it; namely, a secret. (S.) See also 2. ― -b2- He spoke, or discoursed, secretly to him, or with him; he acquainted him with a secret; (S;) as also ↓ نَامسَهُ, (S, M, A, K,) inf. n. مُنَامَسَةٌ (M, A) and نِمَاسٌ. (M.) You say, مَا أَشْوَقَنِى اـِلَى مُنَامَسَتِكَ [ How great is my desire, or longing, for thy secret discourse! ] (A, TA.) -A2- [And it seems to be indicated in the M, that نَمَسَ, aor. and inf. n. as above, signifies He became a confidant, or acquainted with another's secrets. ] -A3- [Hence, perhaps,] نَمَسَ بَيْنَهُمْ, inf. n. as above; (IAar:) and بينهم ↓ أَنْمَسَ, (IAar, K,) inf. n. اـِنْماسٌ; (IAar;) He created discord, or dissension, among them, (IAar, K,) and incited them one against another, or went about among them with calumnies. (IAar.) See also 2. -A4- نَمِسَ, aor. نَمَسَ , inf. n. نَمَسٌ, It (clarified butter, S, A, K, or oil, M, and perfume, and the like, A, and anything sweet or good, M) became bad, or corrupt, (S, A, K,) so as to be slimy, ropy, or viscous; (TA;) became altered (M, TA) and bad, in the manner described above: (TA:) and ↓ نَمَّسَ, said of [the preparation made of churned milk called] أَقِط, it became stinking, or fetid. (TA.) See also 2, below.

2 نمّس عَلَيْهِ الأَمْرَ ذ , (A, * TA,) inf. n. تَنْمِيسٌ, (A, K,) He concealed from him the thing, or affair; or made it dubious, or confused, to him; syn. لَبَّسَهُ. (A, K, * TA.) See also 1, first signification. -A2- نمّس بِصَاحِبِهِ He calumniated his companion; syn. نَمَّ بِهِ. (A.) See also 1. -A3- نمّس شَعَرُهُ His hair became befouled by oil. (M) See also 1, last sentence.

3 نَامس ذ He (a hunter) entered a نَامُوس. i. e., lurking-place, or covert. (K.) See also 7. -A2- نامسهُ: see نَمَسَهُ.

4 انمس بَيْنَهُمْ ذ : see لَمَسَ بينهم.

5 تنمّس ذ He (a hunter) made for himself a نَامُوس, i. e., lurking-place, or covert. (A.) ― -b2- تُنُمِّسَ بِهِ: see نَامُوسٌ.

7 اـِنَّمَسَ ذ , of the measure اـِنْفَعَلَ, (S, CK [in some copies of the K, افتعل, which is a mistake.]) He concealed himself: (S, K:) or انّمس فِى الشَّىْءِ signifies he entered into the thing (M, IKtt) and concealed himself. (IKtt.) See also one of the explanations of نَامُوسٌ, in which this verb occurs. and see 3.

نِمْسٌ ذ [The ichneumon; so called in the present day;] a certain small beast. (IKt, El-Fárábee, S, M, Msb, K,) broad, as though it were a piece of قَدِيد [or salted or sun-dried flesh-meat ]. (S) found in the land of Egypt, (S, K, *) one of the most malignant of wild animals, (M,) that kills the [ kind of serpent called ] ثُعْبَان: (IKt. ElFárábee, S, M, Msb, K:) the keeper of vines or palm-trees or seed-produce (النَّاظِرٌ) takes it for his use, when he is in vehement fear of serpents of the kind above mentioned: for it attacks them, making itself thin and slender as though it were a piece of rope; and when it winds itself upon them, they draw back their breath vehemently, and it take their breath; thus the serpent becomes inflated in its inside, and is cut asunder: (TA.) or i. g. اِبْنُ عِرْسٍ [the weasel ]: (IKt, TA:) or a certain small beast, resembling the cat, generally frequenting gardens; accord. to IF, also called دَلَقٌ [q. v.]; (Msb;) the beast called دَلَهْ [the Persian original of دَلَقٌ]; [see اِبْنُ مِقْرَضٍ, in art. قرض;] called نمس from نَمَّسَ in the first of the senses explained above: (A;) or i. q. ظَرِبَانٌ: (El-Mufaddal Ibn-Selemeh, TA:) from these various sayings, it appears that several species are called by this name: (TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَنْمَاسٌ (TA) and [of mult.] نُمُوسٌ. (Msb.) You say, فِى النَّاسِ أَنْمَاسٌ [app. meaning, Among men are some that are malignant as the animals called انماس]. (A. TA.)

نَمَسٌ ذ The odour of milk, and of grease or gravy; as also نَسَمٌ. (M.)