نِكْثٌ
Root: نكث
Full Definition
نِكْثٌ
What is undone, to be spun again, of the garments called
أَكْسِيَة, and of the stuff of the tents called
أَخْبِيَة: pl. أَنْكَاثٌ: or threads of an old and worn-out stuff, of wool or hair, untwisted, and mixed with new wool [or hair], and beaten with
مَطاَرِق, and spun a second time: or old and worn-out thread of wool or common hair or the soft hair called
وَبَر; so called because it is untwisted, and twisted again: it is when the old and worn-out materials of the garments called اكسية (and of the tents called اخبية, S) are undone, to be spun again. [SM seems to have understood, from the expl. in the S and K, that نِكْثٌ is an Verbal.Noun; for he adds,] the subst. is
: [i. e., this last word has the signification assigned above to نِكْثٌ, from the A and Msb].
2 هَىِ تَغْزِلُ النِّكْثَ, and نَكِيثٌ, She spins what has been undone, to be spun again, &c.
3 حَبْلٌ نِكْثٌ, and نَكِيثٌ , and أَنْكَاثٌ, and مَنْكُوثٌ , A rope undone, or untwisted, at its end.
2 هَىِ تَغْزِلُ النِّكْثَ, and نَكِيثٌ, She spins what has been undone, to be spun again, &c.
3 حَبْلٌ نِكْثٌ, and نَكِيثٌ , and أَنْكَاثٌ, and مَنْكُوثٌ , A rope undone, or untwisted, at its end.
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