مَنْكُوسٌ
Root: نكس
Full Definition
2 وِلَادٌ مَنْكُوسٌ [Preposterous childbirth] is when the feet come forth before the head; i. q. يَتْنُ.
3 طَوَافٌ مَنْكُوسٌ A circuiting of the Kaabeh performed in a way contrary to the prescribed custom, by saluting the black stone and then going towards the left.
4 قَرَأَ القُرَآنَ مَنْكُوسًا He read or recited, the Kur-án, beginning from the last part thereof, i. e. from [the commencement of the latter of] the مُعَوِّذَتَانِ [or last two chapters], and ending with the فَاتِحَة [or first chapter]; contrary to the prescribed mode: or beginning from the end of the chapter, and reading it, or reciting it, to its beginning, invertedly; a mode which A 'Obeyd thinks impossible; and therefore he holds the former explanation to be the right: each of these practices is disapproved, excepting the former in teaching children, [in which case it is generally adopted in the present day,] and [in teaching] the foreigner the [portion of the Kur-án called the] مُفَصَّل; an indulgence being granted to these two only because the long chapters are difficult to them: but if any one knows the Kur-án by heart, and intentionally recite it from the last part thereof to the first, this is forbidden: and if we disapprove this, still more is the reciting from the end of the chapter to the beginning disapproved, if the doing this be possible.
5 مَنْكُوسٌ also signifies
6 مَنْكُوسَةٌ applied to a bow: see نِكْسٌ.
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