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نَقِيضٌ

Root: نقض

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نَقِيضٌ A contradictor: applied to a man: fem. with ة. You say [also], ذَا نقيضُ ذَاكَ This is a contradictor [i. e. the contrary] of that: [or this is inconsistent with that: for] النَّقِيضَانِ لَا يَجْتَمِعَانِ وَلَا يَرْتَفِعَانِ [what are termed نقيضان cannot be coëxistent in the same thing, nor simultaneously nonexistent in the same thing]; as existence itself and nonexistence, and motion and rest. You say also, هٰذِهِ قَصِيدَةٌ نَقِيضُ قَصِيدَةِ فُلَانٍ [This poem is a contradictor of the poem of such a one]. And النَّقِيضَةُ in poetry is That by which one undoes or annuls or contradicts [what another poet has said]: or نَقِيضَةُ الشِّعْرِ consists in a poet's putting forth poetry, and another poet's undoing or annulling or contradicting it, by putting forth what is different therefrom: the subst is نَقِيضٌ: [or rather this seems to be an epithet in which the quality of a subst. is predominant, and syn. with نَقِيضَةٌ:] and the act of the two is termed مُنَاقَضَةٌ : the pl. of نَقِيضَةٌ is نَقَائِضُ: you speak of the نَقَائِض of Jereer and El-Farezdak.

def.2 A sound, noise, voice, or cry; as also نِقْضٌ accord to the K; but this is an enormous error: the former, of the joints of a man, [a meaning also assigned to نِقْضٌ in the K,] and of the fingers, and of the ribs, and of camels' saddles, or of a camel's saddle, (M, O, K, [but in CK, for الرَّحْل, we find الرِّجْل, the foot,]) and of camels' litters, and of tanned skins, or of a tanned skin, and of a bow-string, and of نِسْع [q. v.] when new, and of the sucking of a cupping-instrument; [in all these senses said in the TA to be tropical; but see 4;] and also the former, in the K, erroneously, the latter word, of an eagle, and of chickens, and of an ostrich, and of a quail, and of a hawk, and of a scorpion, and of a frog, and of the [kind of lizard called] وَزَغ, and of the وَبْر [or Syrian hyrax; &c., see 4]
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