Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

انتكث

Root: نكث

Form: 8

Full Definition

انتكثVIII It (a garment of the kind called كِسَاء, &c., Msb, or a rope, S, K) was undone, or untwisted.
2 انتكث السِّوَاكُ [so accord. to the TA: in the K, نَكَثَ :] and تنكّث , (TA, in art. شعث,) The head of the tooth-stick became uncompacted, disunited, or separated, in its fibres.
3 انتكث [He was, or became, emaciated, or lean; he became lean after having been fat. See 4, in art. رأى.]
4 انتكث It was dissolved, violated, or broken.
5 انتكث مِنْ حَاجَةٍ إِلَى أُخْرَى, or لِأُخْرَى, He turned from a thing that he wanted to another thing, having desired, or sought, the former.


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