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نُحَاسٌ

Root: نحس

Full Definition

نُحَاسٌ and نِحَاسٌ and نَحَاسٌ , the last, or all, on the authority of Abu-l-'Abbás El-Kawáshee, a word of well-known meaning; Copper: and brass; syn. قِطْرٌ: or صُفْرٌ: or a species of صُفْر intensely red: a chaste Arabic word.

def.2 Also, Fire: and the sparks that fall from brass (صُفْر), or from iron, when it is beaten with the hammer: or نُحَاسٌ signifies smoke: so in the Kur, lv. 35: but some say that it is نِحَاسٌ signifies the smoke of صُفْر; and نُحَاسٌ signifies صُفْر itself: or the latter signifies smoke in which is no flame: or smoke that rises high, and of which the heat is weak, and which is free from flame: or molten صُفْر: and some read نُحُسٌ, which is the pl.

def.3 See also نِحَاسٌ.
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