نَقَشَ
Root: نقش
Form: 1
Full Definition
2 نَقَشَ فى خَاتَمِهِ كَذَا, and عَلَى فَصِّ خَاتَمِهِ, Verbal.Noun as above, [He engraved upon his signet-ring such a thing, and upon the stone of his signet-ring: and نَقَشَ also signifies he marked with a cutting or a pointed instrument: he sculptured a thing in any manner.]
3 نَقَشَ الرَّحَا
4 نَقَشَ, Verbal.Noun as above, also signifies He, or it, scratched, lacerated, or wounded in the outer skin. They said, كَأَنَّ وَجْهَهُ نُقِشَ بِقَتَادَةٍ [As though his face were scratched, or lacerated, by a tragacanth-bush]; syn. خُدِشَ: relating to hatefulness, and austerity or moroseness of countenance, and anger.
5 نَقْشُ العِذْقِ signifies The striking the raceme of dates with thorns, in order that the dates may ripen: or and their consequently ripening. And one says, نُقِشَ العِذْقُ, meaning, The raceme of dates had specks apparent in it, in consequence of ripening.
6 And [hence, perhaps,] نَقْشٌ is used as
def.2 Also نَقَشَ, Present.T as above, and so the Verbal.Noun, He extracted, or drew, or pulled, out, or forth, a thorn from his foot, with the مِنْقَش or مِنْقَاش; as also انتقش : thought by A 'Obeyd to be from المُنَاقَشَةُ; but others say the reverse: and in like manner, bones from a wound in the head: and he plucked out hair, with the مِنْقَاش; as also انتقش . A certain poet says, (namely, Yezeed Ibn-Maksam [?] EthThakafee, O in art. شوك,)
[Do not thou by any means extract from the foot of another a thorn, and so preserve, by thy foot, the foot of him who has pierced himself therewith]: the [former] ب is put in the place of عَنْ: he says, do not thou extract from the foot of another a thorn and put it in thy foot: or مَنْ شَاكَهَا means who has entered among the thorns. (S and O, in art. شوك.) And it is said in a trad. of Aboo-Hureyreh, عَثَرَ فَلَا ٱنْتَعَشَ وَشِيكَ فَلَا ٱنْتَقَشَ [May he stumble, and not rise again; and may he be pierced with a thorn, and not extract the thorn]: the words meaning an imprecation. See also 8, below.لَا تَنْقُشَنَّ بِرِجْلِ غَيْرِكَ شَوْكَةً فَتَقِى بِرِجْلِكَ رِجْلَ مَنْ قَدْ شَاكَهَا
2 [Hence,] نَقَشَ, Present.T as above, and so the Verbal.Noun, He cleared the nightly resting-place of sheep or goats from thorns and the like, or from what might hurt them, of stones and thorns and the like.
3 Hence also, نَقَشَ عَنِ الشَّىْءِ, Verbal.Noun as above, He explored the thing to the utmost.
4 [Hence also,] مَا نَقَشَ مِنْهُ شَيْئًا
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