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نَغَضَ

Root: نغض

Form: 1

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نَغَضَI , Present.T ـِ and ـُ Verbal.Noun نَغْضٌ and نُغُوضٌ and نَغَضَانٌ and نَغَضٌ, It was or became, in a state of motion, commotion, agitation, or convulsion; it shook; shook about; wabbled; tottered; wagged; nodded; syn. تَحَرَّكَ, and اِضْطَرَبَ, فِى ٱرْتِجَافٍ; as also and تنغّض : it is said of a man's head; and also, with نَغْضٌ and نَغَضَانٌ for its inf. ns., of a camel's saddle, and of the central incisor of a child, or of any tooth, as also ↓ the last of the verbs above mentioned; and of other things; نَغْضٌ signifying any moving in a shaking or tremulous or convulsive manner (فِى ٱرْتِجَافٍ); and نَغَضَتْ and , said of a tooth, being syn. with رَجَفَتْ.
2 Also, Verbal.Noun نَغَضَانٌ, He, or it, was, or became, disquieted, agitated, or violently agitated.
3 نَغَضُوا إِلَى العَدُوِّ They rose and hastened and went forth to, or towards, the enemy.
4 نَغَضَ also signifies It was, or became, dense: or much in quantity: or much in quantity, and dense. And It was, or became, dense, and then became ready to rain, and was seen to move about, one part into another, without its going along: or was seen to become ready to rain, without motion, not travel-ling along: or it travelled along. [See نَاغِضٌ, below.]
5 نَغَضَ أَمْرُهُ His affair, or case, was, or became, in a weak, or unsound, state; syn. وَهَى.

def.2 See also 4, in two places.
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