مُنْكَرٌ
Root: نكر
Full Definition
2 [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]; and مُسْتَنْكَرٌ signifies the same. For the pls. of مُنْكَرٌ, see نَكِرٌ.
3 [Denied, or disacknowledged.
4 Deemed strange, extraordinary, or improbable, ]
5 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]: or anything pronounced to be bad, evil, hateful, abominable, or foul, and forbidden, and disapproved, disliked, or hated, by the law: a saying, or an action, unapproved, not approved, unaccepted, or not accepted, by God: unbecoming, indecent, or indecorous. See مَعْرُوفٌ, voce عُرْفٌ. مُنْكَرٌ and نُكْرٌ and نُكُرٌ and نَكْرَآءُ are all syn., [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
def.2 The name of one of two angels, the other of whom is named نَكِيرٌ; who are the two triers of [the dead in] the graves.
def.3 See also نَكِرٌ.
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