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انقض

Root: نقض

Form: 4

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انقضIV , and انقض عَنْهَا. He removed the crust of earth from over the truffles: or he extracted, or took forth, the truffles from the earth.

def.2 انقض الكَمْءُ The crusts of earth broke up (تَقَلْفَعَتْ) from over the truffle; as also نَقَّضَ . [See also 5.]
2 انقضت الأَرْضُ The earth showed [or put forth] its plants, or herbage.

def.3 انقض also signifies It produced, made, gave, emitted, or uttered, a sound, noise, voice, or cry: and [particularly] a slight sound like what is termed نَقْرٌ: said of a joint of a man, and of the fingers [when their joints are made to crack], and of the ribs, [see also 5,] and of a camel's saddle, and of a cupping-instrument when the cupper sucks it, [&c., (see نَقِيضٌ,)] and of an eagle, and of a hen on the occasion of her laying eggs, and of a chicken, and of an ostrich, and of a quail, and of a hawk, and of a scorpion, and of a frog, and of the [kind of lizard called] وَزَغ, and of the وَبْر [or Syrian hyrax], and of a young camel, the sounds of which are denoted by إِنْقَاضٌ and كَتِيتٌ, as those of a camel advanced in age are by قَرْقَرَةٌ and هَدِيرٌ: or إِنْقَاضٌ relates to animate things; and نَقْضٌ , Verbal.Noun of نَقضَ, Present.T ـُ and ـِ to inanimate things. [Accord. to the A, whether said of animate things or of inanimate, it is proper, not tropical, but accord. to what is said in the TA voce نَقِيض, it is properly said of animate things, and tropically of inanimate; though, if any such distinction exist, the reverse seems to me to be more probable.]
2 You say also, انقض بِالدَّابَّةِ, or بِالْحِمَارِ. or, as As says, بِالعَيْرِ, or بِالبَعِيرِ, and بِالفَرَسِ, He made a sound to the beast of carriage, or to the ass, or to the camel, and to the horse, at the two sides of his tongue, after making it cleave to the roof of his mouth, without removing its extremity from its place, in order to chide the beast: or انقض بِهِ signifies i. q. نَقَرَ بِهِ [q. v.]; the object being a [camel such as is called] قَعُود; or whatever be the object. And انقض بِالْمَعْزِ, or بِالعَنْزِ, He called the goats, or the she-goat; accord. to AZ, or Ks. And انقض بِهِ He made a sound to him like as when thou makest a smacking with the tongue to a sheep or goat, [in the TA, كما تنقر الشاة, for which I read كَمَا تَنْقُرُ بِالشَّاةِ,] deeming him ignorant. And He made a clapping to him with one of his hands upon the other, so as to cause a [sound such as is termed] نَقِيض to be heard.

def.4 انقض أَصَابِعَهُ He made a sound, or sounds, [app. a cracking of the joints,] with his fingers: [and so , Verbal.Noun تَنْقِيضٌ: (see فَرْقَعَ:)] or he struck with his fingers in order that they might make a sound, or sounds: if it mean cracking of the joints (فَرْقَعَة), it is disapproved; but if clapping, it is not. And انقض العِلْكَ He caused the [kind of gum called] علك to make a sound, or sounds; [i. e., in chewing it, as many women do;] the doing of which is disapproved. (S, L, K. [But in the S and L, it said that إِنْقَاضُ العِلْكَ signifies تَصْوِيتُهُ, which does not necessarily indicate that the former verb is transitive.])
2 Hence, انقض الحِمْلُ ظَهْرَهُ The load made his back to sound by reason of its weight: or pressed heavily upon him, so that his back was heard to make a sound such as is termed نَقِيض; or a slight sound, as when a man makes a smacking with his tongue (يُنْقِضُ) to his ass, in driving him: or oppressed his back by its weight: or rendered him lean, or emaciated; جَعَلَهُ نِقْضًا, i. e. مَهْزُولًا. Thus in the phrase الَّذِى أَنْقَضَ ظَهْرَكَ, in [xciv. 3, of] the Kur.
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