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نَاقِدٌ

Root: نقد

Full Definition

نَاقِدٌ [One who picks, or separates, money, and puts forth the bad; who picks, or separates, good money from bad:] who examines money, to pick, or separate the good from the bad: [as also نَقَّادٌ :] pl. نُقَّادٌ [and نَقَدَةٌ].
2 [نَاقِدُ شِعْرٍ, and One who picks out the faults of poetry; and, the ↓ latter, one who is accustomed to do so.]
3 هُوَ مِنْ نَقَدَةِ الشِّعْرِ and مِنْ نُقَّادِهِ, [He is one of those who pick out the faults of poetry].
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