ناقشهُ

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ناقشهُIII , or ناقشهُ الحِسَابَ, and فِى الحِسَابِ, Verbal.Noun مُنَاقَشَةٌ and نِقَاشٌ, He did the utmost with him, or went to the utmost length with him, in reckoning, so as to omit nothing therein: A 'Obeyd thinks that نَقْشٌ signifying the “ extracting ” a thorn from the foot is from this; but others say the reverse; that the primary signification of مُنَاقَشَةٌ is the extracting a thorn from the body with difficulty; and that it then became [conventionally regarded as] a proper term in the sense of doing the utmost, or going to the utmost length, in reckoning; as observed by MF. It is said in a trad., مَنْ نُوقِشَ الحِسَابَ عُدِّبَ, or هَلَكَ, He with whom the utmost is done in reckoning is punished, or perishes. See also 4.
2 [Hence,] ناقش الكَلَامَ He picked out the faults of the language; syn. نَقَدَهُ. (TA, art. نقد.)

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