Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

نَقَخَ, aor. ـَ {يَنْقَخُ}, (Ṣ, L, Ḳ,) inf. n. نَقْخٌ (Ṣ, L) and نُقَاخٌ, (L,) He struck, smote, or beat. (Ḳ.) نَقَخَ رَأْسَهُ He struck his head with a staff, or sword, or some other hard thing: or he struck his head so that the brain came forth: (L:) or he broke his head so as to disclose the brain; as also نَقَفَ. (Ṣ, L.) نَقَخَ دِمَاغَهُ He broke his brain. (Ḳ.)

Also, نَقَخَ (L) andانتقخ↓ (L, Ḳ) He extracted marrow (L, Ḳ) from a bone. (L.)

نَقَحَ العَطَشَ بِبَرْدِهِ † It (sweet water) broke, [or abated, or allayed,] thirst, by its coolness, or coldness. (L, from a trad.)

نُقَاخٌ Sweet water; that has no saltness; (AO, Th, Ṣ;) that strikes (يَنْقَخُ) the heart (or almost does so, L) by its coldness: (Ṣ:) or cold, or cool, and sweet, and clear, water: (Ḳ:) or sweet water, that breaks [or abates or allays] (يَنْقَحُ, i. e. يَكْسِرُ,) thirst by its coolness, or coldness: (L, from a trad.:) or abundant water which a man makes to well forth in a place where was no water. (ISh.)

Also, Pure, mere, unadulterated, or genuine. (T, Ḳ.)

هٰذَا نُقَاخُ العَرَبِيَّةِ (Fr) ‡ This is pure Arabic; or the purest, choicest, best, or most excellent, of Arabic. (Fr, A.)

Also نُقَاخٌ Sleep in health and safety. (Abu-l-ʼAbbás, Ḳ.)