نَكِدٌ

[Hard, strait, or difficult; applied to a man's life; (see 1;) and to fortune, as in an example voce إِبِدٌ.]

Water little in quantity. (L.)

لَا يَخْرُجُ إِلَّا نَكِدًا, in the Qur'an, 7:56,] according to the common reading, or ↓ نَكَدًا, according to the reading of the people of El-Medeeneh, or, as it may be read, according to Zj, ↓ نَكْدًا and ↓ نُكْدًا, means, according to Fr, It [the herbage] will not come forth save with difficulty: (L:) or, scantily and unprofitably. (Beyd.)

نَكِدٌ (S, A, L, Msb, K,) and ↓ نَكَدٌ and ↓ نَكْدٌ and ↓ أَنْكَدُ (L, K) A man who is unpropitious, (L, K,) and mean, (L,) and hard, or difficult: (S, A, L, Msb, K:) and a people you term أَنْكَادٌ and مَنَاكِيدُ (S, L, K) and نُكُدٌ and نُكْدٌ. (A.)

نَكِدٌ and ↓ أَنْكَدُ A man that brings evil upon others. (L.)