نَحْسٌ
Root: نحس
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نَحْسٌ
Unprosperousness, unfortunateness, inauspiciousness, or unluckiness; contr. of
سَعْدٌ; of stars, and of other things: pl. [of pauc.] أَنْحُسٌ and [of mult.] نُحُوسٌ; and مَنَاحِسُ is an irreg. pl. of the same, syn. with مَشَائِمُ, which is in like manner an irreg. pl. of شُؤْمٌ. [In Har, p. 375 , a doubt is expressed respecting مَنَاحِسُ, as to its being a pl. of نَحْسٌ; but only from ignorance of their being any authority for its being so: it may, however, be pl. of مَنْحَسَةٌ, and not of نَحْسٌ.] In the Kur, [liv. 19,] some read, فى يَوْمِ نَحْسٍ [In a day of unprosperousness]: others read نحس as an epithet. See نَحِسٌ.
2 Also, Difficulty, distress, trouble, or fatigue; harm, injury, or evil state or condition; syn. جَهْدٌ and ضُرٌّ: pl. أَنْحُسٌ.
2 Also, Difficulty, distress, trouble, or fatigue; harm, injury, or evil state or condition; syn. جَهْدٌ and ضُرٌّ: pl. أَنْحُسٌ.
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