انكرهُ
Root: نكر
Form: 4
Full Definition
[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]. And it is said in the Kur, [xi. 73,] وَأَوْجَسَ مِنْهُمْ خِيفَةٌ [He knew not what they were, and conceived a fear, or a kind of fear, of them]: نَكِرَهُمْ here signifies أَنْكَرَهُمْ: or it means أَنْكَرَ ذٰلِكَ مِنْهُمْ [q. v. infra].وَأَنْكَرَتْنِى وَمَا كَانَ الَّذِى نَكِرَتْ مِنَ الحَوَادِثِ إِلَّا الشَّيْبَ وَالصَّلَعَا
2 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] إِنْكَارٌ signifies i. q. جُحُودٌ, and so نُكْرَانٌ [which is an Verbal.Noun of نَكِرَهُ]. [In this sense it is doubly trans.:] you say, أَنْكَرْتُهُ حَقَّهُ, meaning, I denied, or disacknowledged, to him his right. The cause of إِنْكَار with the tongue is إِنْكَار 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 ٱللّٰهِ ثُمَّ يُنْكِرُونَهَا [They confess, or acknowledge, the favour of God; then they deny, or disacknowledge, it]. See also نَكِيرٌ.
def.2 Also, He deemed it strange, extraordinary, or improbable. (MF, voce عَجَبٌ.]
2 [Also He denied, or negatived, it.
3 He disbelieved it.
4 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]: and أَنْكَرَ and [of which last see an ex. voce تَهِمَ] signify the same. And you say, أَنْكَرْتُ عَلَيْهِ فِعْلَهُ, meaning, I blamed, or found fault with, his deed, and forbade it; I disapproved and disallowed his deed. [and I manifested, or showed, or declared, disapproval, or disallowance, of his
5 إِنْكَارٌ also signifies The changing [a thing; like تَنْكِيرٌ]: or the changing what is مُنْكَر [here app. meaning disapproved: see نَكِيرٌ, which is syn. with it, but is a simple subst.].
6 مَا أَنْكَرَهُ How great it his cunning! meaning both his intelligence, and craft, and forecast; and simply, his intelligence, or skill and knowledge. And مَا كَانَ أَنْكَرَهُ How great was his cunning, &c.
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