Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَنْكَرُ

Root: نكر

Full Definition

أَنْكَرُ Worse, and worst; more, and most, evil, abominable, or foul. So it is explained as occurring in the Kur. [xxxi. 18,] إِنّ أَنْكَرَ ٱلْأَصْوَاتِ لَصَوْتُ الحَمِيرِ [Verily the most abominable of voices is the voice of asses].
2 See also نَكِرٌ: and the fem., نَكْرَآءُ, see above.


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