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نَكِدَ

Root: نكد

Form: 1

Full Definition

نَكِدَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun نَكَدٌ, It was, or became, hard, or strait, and difficult.
2 نَكِدَ It became deficient.
3 نَكِدَ It became exhausted.
4 نَكِدَتِ الرَّكِيَّةُ The well came to have little water.
5 نَكِدَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun نَكَدٌ, He was, or became, unpropitious, and mean: he became hard, or difficult: he gave little: or gave not at all: you say also نَكِدَ بِحَاجَتِنَا he was niggardly of that which we wanted.
6 نَكَدَ حَاجَتَهُ, Present.T ـُ; or نَكَدَهُ حَاجَتَهُ, He withheld from him, or refused him, his want.
7 نَكَدَهُ, Present.T ـُ He withheld from him, or refused him, what he asked: or [in the CK, and] the same, or نَكَدَهُ مَا سَأَلَهُ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun نَكْدٌ, he gave him not save the least of what he asked.
8 نُكِدَ, [in measure] like عُنِىَ, He had many askers and gave little.
9 نَكَدَ, Present.T ـُ He croaked with his utmost force; as though vomiting; as also تنكّد .
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