نَكَصَ
Root: نكص
Form: 1
Full Definition
نَكَصَI
, [Present.T
ـِ and sometimes
ـُ as will be shown below,] Verbal.Noun نُكُوصٌ and نَكُصٌ and مَنْكَصٌ and نَكَصَانٌ, He receded, retired, or drew back from the thing, or affair, refrained, forbore, abstained, or desisted, from it; recoiled from it, shrank from it, or drew back from it in awe or fear; as also نَكَثَ
عَنْهُ. You say also, نَكَصَ
عَلَى عَقِبَيْهِ, or على عَقِبِهِ, Present.T
ـُ and
ـِ or the latter only, or the former is allowable, He turned back from a thing to which he had applied himself; meaning a good thing; and sometimes an evil thing; or meaning particularly a good thing; or extr. with respect to an evil thing. [See the Kur, xxiii. 68.] Hence
[as syn. with نكص], though we have not heard it.
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