نَكَشَ

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نَكَشَI , or الرَّكِيَّةَ, Present.T ـِ and ـُ Verbal.Noun نَكْشٌ, He entirely exhausted the water of the well: and he extracted what was in the well, of black fetid mud (حَمْأَة [in some of the copies of the K, خَبِيْئَة, which is a mistranscription,]) and of clay: as also Hence the saying, فَلَانٌ بَحْرٌ لَا يُنْكَشُ [Such a one is] a sea, or great river, which will not be entirely exhausted, nor will diminish. And عِنْدَهُ شَجَاعَةٌ لَا تُنْكَشُ He has courage which will not be exhausted: said of 'Alee, by a man of Kureysh.
2 And نَكَشَ الشَّىْءَ He consumed the thing; made it come to an end, fail, cease, perish, or come to nought: and the same, Present.T and Verbal.Noun as above, or نَكَشَ مِنْهُ, he made an end of the thing; or ceased from it, having finished it. (Lth, ISd, A, K; but in [some of] the copies of the K, فَزِعَ is put by mistake for فَرَغَ, in this explanation. TA.) One says, إِنْتَهَوْا إِلَى عُشْبٍ فَنَكَشُوهُ They came at last to herbage, and consumed it. And لُمْعَةٌ مَا تُنْكَشُ [A piece of herbage beginning to dry up] that is not extirpated, or cut off entirely with its roots.
3 نَكْشٌ also signifies The scrutinizing or investigating, or searching or examining or inquiring into, affairs. [You say, app., نَكَشَ عَنِ الأُمُورِ, meaning, He scrutinized, &c., affairs.]
4 And نَكَشَانٌ is like نَكْشٌ [but in what sense is not said].

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