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نَكَّسَ see 1, throughout.

تَنَكَّسَ see 1, last sentence.

انتكس quasi-pass. of نَكَسَهُ ; (S, A, TA;) [and therefore signifying It became turned over, or upside down; became turned over upon its head; became inverted; became reversed; became changed in its manner of being, or state; it became turned fore part behind; its first part was made to be last, or was put last:] he fell upon his head. (K.) This last signification [understood figuratively] it is said to have in the phrase تَعَسَ وَا@نْتَكَسَ , a form of imprecation, meaning, (assumed tropical:) May he be disappointed, or fail, of attaining his desire: for he who is overthrown in his affair ( مَن ا@نْتَكَسَ فِى أَمْرِهِ ) is disappointed of attaining his desire, and suffers loss. (TA.) [See also 1, where this form of imprecation is differently explained.] ― -b2- Also, i. q. نَكَّسَ رَأَسَهُ . (TA.) [See 1, last signification.]

نِكْسٌ An arrow having its notch broken, and its top therefore made its bottom: (S, A, K:) pl. [of pauc.] أَنْكَاسٌ (A, TA) and [of mult.] نُكُسٌ . (A.) ― -b2- A head, or blade, of an arrow &c., having its tongue ( سِنْخ ) broken, and its point therefore made its tongue: (K:) pl. أَنْكَاسٌ . (TA.) ― -b3- A bow of which the foot is made [of] the head of the branch; as also ↓ مَنْكُوسَةٌ . This peculiarity is a fault. (K.) ― -b4- A child such as is termed يَتْنٌ [born preposterously, feet foremost; but يَتْنٌ is an inf. n., and I have not found it used as an epithet anywhere but in this instance]; (K;) i. q. مَنْكُوسٌ ; and mentioned by IDrd; but he says that it is not of established authority. (TA.) ― -b5- (tropical:) Low, or ignoble; base; vile; mean, or sordid: See a verse cited voce أَشَّعَلَ : (A:) (tropical:) one who falls short of the utmost point of generosity; (K;) or of courage and generosity: (TA:) (assumed tropical:) weak; (S, K;) applied to a man: (S:) (assumed tropical:) short: (AHn:) pl. أَنْكَاسٌ . (A, K.) ― -b6- See also مُنَكِّسٌ : ― -b7- and نُكُسٌ .

نُكَسٌ , [app. pl. of نِكْسٌ ,] (assumed tropical:) Old men tottering by reason of age ( مُدْرَهِمُّونَ ) after attaining to extreme old age. (K.)

نَاكِسٌ Lowering his head; bending, or hanging, down his head towards the ground; [absolutely;] (S, K;) [or] by reason of abasement: (TA:) pl. [properly نَاكِسُونَ ; (see Kur, xxxii. 12;) and sometimes] نَوَاكِسُ , (S, K,) used [only] in poetry, (S, TA,) by reason of necessity, (TA,) and anomalous, (S, K,) like فَوَارِسُ . (S.) ElFarezdak says, وَاـِذَا الرِّجَالُ رَأَوْا يَزِيدَ رَأَيْتَهُم خُضُعَ الرِّقَابِ نَوَاكِسَ الأَبْصَارِ [And when the men see Yezeed, thou seest them depressed in the necks, lowering the eyes]: (S:) thus the verse is related by Fr and Ks: Akh says, that it is allowable to say نَوَاكِسِ الأَبْصَارِ , after the manner of the phrase حُجْرُ ضَبٍّ خَرِبٍ ; [see art. خرب ;] and Ahmad Ibn-Yahyà adds ى in relating it; saying نَوَاكِسِى الأَبْصَارِ . (TA.) [See the remarks on فَوَارِسُ , pl. of فَارِسٌ .]

مُنَكِّسٌ A horse that does not raise, or elevate, his head, (S, IF, K,) nor his neck, when running, by reason of weakness: (IF, K:) or that has not reached the other horses (Lth, K) in their heat, or single run to a goal; (Lth;) i. e., by reason of his weakness and impotence; as also ↓ نِكْسٌ . (TA.)

وَلَدٌ مَنْكُوسٌ A child [preposterously brought forth; whose feet come forth before his head. (A, Msb, and so in a copy of the S.) See also نِكْسٌ . ― -b2- وِلَادٌ مَنْكُوسٌ [Preposterous childbirth] is when the feet come forth before the head; (K, and so in a copy of the S, [and that this is what was meant by the author of the S seems to be indicated by what immediately follows]) i. q. يَتْنُ . (S.) ― -b3- طَوَافٌ مَنْكُوسٌ A circuiting of the Kaabeh performed in a way contrary to the prescribed custom, by saluting the black stone and then going towards the left. (Mgh.) ― -b4- قَرَأَ القُرَا=نَ مَنْكُوسًا He read or recited, the Kur-án, beginning from the last part thereof, (K,) i. e. from [the commencement of the latter of] the مُعَوِّذَتَانِ [or last two chapters], (TA,) and ending with the فَاتِحَة [or first chapter]; contrary to the prescribed mode: (TA:) or beginning from the end of the chapter, and reading it, or reciting it, to its beginning, invertedly; (K;) a mode which A 'Obeyd thinks impossible; and therefore he holds the former explanation to be the right: (TA:) each of these practices is disapproved, excepting the former in teaching children, [in which case it is generally adopted in the present day,] (K,) and [in teaching] the foreigner the [portion of the Kur-án called the] مُفَصَّل ; an indulgence being granted to these two only because the long chapters are difficult to them: but if any one knows the Kur-án by heart, and intentionally recite it from the last part thereof to the first, this is forbidden: and if we disapprove this, still more is the reciting from the end of the chapter to the beginning disapproved, if the doing this be possible. (TA.) ― -b5- مَنْكُوسٌ also signifies (tropical:) Suffering a relapse into disease, after convalescence; or after recovery, but not complete, of health and strength. (K.) ― -b6- مَنْكُوسَةٌ applied to a bow: see نِكْسٌ .