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نَاطَحَا , inf. n. نِطَاحٌ (L, Msb) and مُنَاطَحَةٌ , (Msb,) They two (rams or he-goats) smote each other with their horns. (L.) ― -b2- بَيْنَهُمَا نِطَاحٌ (tropical:) [Between them two is a contention like that of two rams]; said of two learned men, and of two merchants. (A.) ― -b3- جَرَى لَنَا فِى السُّوقِ نِطَاحٌ (tropical:) [There happened to us in the market a contention like that of two rams]. (A.) ― -b4- [ نَاطَحَهُ He, or it, faced, or was or came opposite to him, or it]: نِطَاحٌ is syn. with مُقَابَلَةٌ in the dial. of El-Hijáz. (TA.)

تَنَاْطَحَ see 8. ― -b2- تَنَاطَحَتِ الأَمْوَاجُ , and السُّيُولُ , (tropical:) [The waves, and the torrents, conflicted, or dashed together.] (A.)

انتطحتِ الكِبَاشُ , and ↓ تناطحت , (S, K,) The rams smote one another with their horns. (K.) ― -b2- لَا يَنْطِحُ فِيهَا عَنْزَانِ [Two she-goats will not, in it, smite each other with their horns]: i. e., two weak persons will not encounter each other in it: alluding to a case in which there will not happen any discord or contention. (L, from a trad.)

نَطُوحٌ : see نَطَّاحٌ .

نَطِيحٌ Smitten with the horn and so killed: fem. with ة : (L, K:) pl. نَطْحَى (L) and نَطَايءِحُ : (Lh, L:) you say also نَعْجَةٌ نَطِيحٌ , as well as نطيحة . (L.) ― -b2- Also نَطِيحَةٌ A sheep or goat (Az) smitten with the horn and so killed. (Az, S,) and of which the flesh is therefore unlawful to be eaten: (Az:) the ة is added because it is made a subst., not an epithet: (Az:) or because the quality of a subst. predominates in it, as in the case of فَرِيسَةٌ and أَكِيلَةٌ and رَمِيَّةٌ . (S.) ― -b3- نَطِيحٌ and ↓ نَاطِحٌ (tropical:) What comes to thee from before thee, (or faces thee, L,) of birds and wild animals (S, L, K) &c., which one rouses by throwing a stone or by crying out, and from the course of which one augurs evil or good: (L:) contr. of قَعِيدٌ . (S.) [The نطيح or ↓ ناطح is of evil omen.] ― -b4- Hence, (TA,) نَطِيحٌ (tropical:) An unfortunate, or unlucky, man. (K.) ― -b5- نَطِيحٌ A horse having a blaze, or white mark on his face, extending to one of his ears, which is deemed unlucky: (L:) or a horse having on his forehead two circular or spiral curls of hair ( دَايءِرَتَانِ ), which are disliked: (S, L, K:) if there be but one, it is called دَايءِرَةُ اللَّطَاةِ ; and this is not disliked; (S;) or it is called لَطْمَةٌ ; and the horse, لَطِيمٌ . (L.)

كَبْشٌ نَطَّاحٌ [A ram that smites much with his horn]: (S:) and ↓ نَطُوحٌ [signifies the same: and] is applied to a man [app. as meaning who pushes, thrusts, or repels, much, or vehemently]. (IAar, TA in art. ردس .)

دَايءِرَةُ النَّاطِحِ A certain circular or spiral curl of hair on a horse, which is deemed unlucky. (L.) [See نَطِيحٌ .] ― -b2- نَاطِحٌ (tropical:) A difficulty; a distressing event; an affliction; a calamity: pl. نَوَاطِحُ . (S, K.) Ex. أَصَابَهُ نَاطِحٌ A difficulty, or distressing event, befell him. (S.) نَوَاطِحُ الدَّهْرِ The difficulties, &c., of fortune. (S.) ― -b3- النَّطْحُ وَالنَّاطِحُ (tropical:) [The two stars called] الشَّرَطَانِ , [q. v.,] which are [the two stars in] the two horns of Aries: (S, K:) [the first of the Mansions of the Moon: the latter is b, and the former a:] ISd says, that ↓ النَّطْحُ is a star which is one of the Mansions of the Moon, and from [the auroral rising of] which one augurs evil: and IAar says, that one says, نَطْحٌ and النَّطْحُ , without and with ال ; and the like in the case of the name of any of the Mansions of the Moon. (TA.) The Arabs said اـِذَا طَلَعَ النَّطْحُ طَابَ السَّطْحُ (tropical:) [When En-Nat-h rises aurorally, the house-top becomes pleasant as a place on which to sit in the evening, or on which to sleep]. (A.) ― -b4- مَا لَهُ نَاطِحٌ وَلَا خَابِطٌ He has neither sheep, or goat, nor camel. (S, K.)