نَاكِسٌ
Root: نكس
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نَاكِسٌ
Lowering his head; bending, or hanging, down his head towards the ground; [absolutely;] [or] by reason of abasement: pl. [properly نَاكِسُونَ; and sometimes] نَوَاكِسُ, used [only] in poetry, by reason of necessity, and anomalous, like فَوَارِسُ. ElFarezdak says,
[And when the men see Yezeed, thou seest them depressed in the necks, lowering the eyes]: thus the verse is related by Fr and Ks: Akh says, that it is allowable to say نَوَاكِسِ الأَبْصَارِ, after the manner of the phrase حُجْرُ ضَبٍّ خَرِبٍ; [see art. خرب;] and Ahmad Ibn-Yahyà addsوَإِذَا الرِّجَالُ رَأَوْا يَزِيدَ رَأَيْتَهُم خُضُعَ الرِّقَابِ نَوَاكِسَ الأَبْصَارِ
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