نَكَسَهُ

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نَكَسَهُI , Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun نَكْسٌ, He turned it over, or upside down; inverted it; reversed it; changed its manner of being, or state: he turned it over upon its head: and he turned it fore part behind; made the first part of it to be last; or put the first part of it last: and نكّسهُ , Verbal.Noun تَنْكِيسٌ, signifies the same; or has an intensive sense. You say, نُكِسَ السَّهْمُ فِى الكِنَانَةِ The arrow was turned, or put, upside down in the quiver. And it is said in the Kur, [xxxvi. 68,] وَمَنْ نُعَمِّرْهُ نَنْكُسْهُ فِى الخَلْقِ, or, accord. to the reading of 'Ásim and Hamzeh, ; meaning, And him whom We cause to live long, We cause him to become in a state the reverse of that in which he was, in constitution; so that after strength, he becomes reduced to weakness; and after youthfulness, to extreme old age.
2 نَكَسْتُ فُلَانًا فِى ذٰلِكَ الأَمْرِ I made such a one to enter again into that affair, or state, after he had got out of it. [Hence the saying in the Kur, xxi. 66,] ثُمَّ نُكِسُوا عَلَى رُؤُوسِهِمْ Then they were made to return to their disbelief: or then they reverted to disputation, after they had taken the right course by means of consulting together; their return to falsity being likened to a thing's becoming upside down: and there are two other readings; , and نَكَسُوا; the latter meaning نَكَسُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ: or then they reverted from what they knew, of the evidence in favour of Abraham.
3 [And hence,] نَكَسَهُ, and نَكَسَهُ إِلَى مَرَضِهِ, It made him to fall back into his disease.] (TA, in art. هيض.) And نُكِسَ, or نُكِسَ فِى مَرَضِهِ, Verbal.Noun نُكْسٌ and نَكْسٌ and نُكَاسٌ, He relapsed into his disease, after convalescence, or after recovery, but not complete, of health and strength: or the disease returned to him; [he relapsed into the disease;] as though he were made to turn back to it. You say, أَكَلَ كَذَا فَنُكِسَ [He ate such a thing, and relapsed into his disease]. And تَعْسًا لَهُ وَنُكْسًا, and sometimes one says, نَكْسًا, in this case, for the sake of mutual resemblance, or because نَكْسًا is a dial form [of نُكْسًا], [meaning, May he fall upon his face, or the like, (see art. تعس,) and relapse into disease: or] may he fall upon his face, and not rise after his fall until he fall a second time: and in like manner you say, تَعَسَ . (Msb, art. تعس.) [See also 8.] You say also, نُكِسَ الجُرْحُ [The wound broke open again; or became recrudescent]. (S, in arts. عرب and حبط, &c.)
4 And نَكَسَ الطَّعَامُ وَغَيْرُهُ دَآءَ المَرِيضِ The food, &c., made the disease of the sick man to return. And نَكَسَ الخِضَابَ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ He put the dye upon his head repeatedly, or several times.
5 Also نَكَسَ [or more probably نُكِسَ] He became weak and impotent. And نُكِسَ عَنْ نُظَرَائِهِ, like عُنِىَ, He fell short of his fellows; was unable to attain to them.
6 نَكَسَ رَأْسَهُ, and نكّسهُ , [and نَكَسَ alone, (see نَاكِسٌ,)] and نكّس , (L, TA, art. بقر,) and انتكس , [and in like manner تنكّس , said of a flower-stalk in the M and K, voce قِشْبٌ,] He bent, or inclined, his head; he lowered, or stooped, his head; bent, or hung, it down towards the ground; absolutely; or by reason of abasement.

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