دَايءِرَةُ النَّاطِحِ

A certain circular or spiral curl of hair on a horse, which is deemed unlucky. (L.) [See نَطِيحٌ.]

نَاطِحٌ (tropical:) A difficulty; a distressing event; an affliction; a calamity: plural نَوَاطِحُ. (S, K.) Ex. أَصَابَهُ نَاطِحٌ A difficulty, or distressing event, befell him. (S.) نَوَاطِحُ الدَّهْرِ The difficulties, &c., of fortune. (S.)

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 إِذَا 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.)

مَا لَهُ نَاطِحٌ وَلَا خَابِطٌ He has neither sheep, or goat, nor camel. (S, K.)