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نَكَثَ

Root: نكث

Form: 1

Full Definition

نَكَثَI , Present.T ـُ and ـِ Verbal.Noun نَكْثٌ, He undid [the threads of] a garment of the kind called كِسَاء, &c.: he undid, or untwisted, a rope.
2 نَكَثَ السِّوَاكَ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun نَكْثٌ; He, or it, made the head of the tooth-stick to be uncompacted, disintegrated, disunited, or seperated, in its fibres: and so the verb signifies with respect to other things. [See also 8.]
3 نَكَثَ, (Present.T ـُ and ـِ K, Verbal.Noun نَكْثٌ, TA,) He dissolved, violated, or broke, a covenant, or compact, or an act of inauguration, &c.
4 نَكَثَ عَنِ الأَمْرِ i. q. نَكَصَ (Aboo-Turáb, in TA, art. نكص.)
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