مُنْكَرٌ
1.
opposite of مَعْرُوفٌ: (K:) [an explanation including several significations, here following.]
2.
[Ignored, or unknown; as also
مَنْكُورٌ, for مَنْكُورٌ is synonym with
مَجْهُولٌ [the pass. particle n. of the verb by which أَنْكَرَهُ is explained by Kr and in the K]; (TA;) and
مُسْتَنْكَرٌ signifies the same. (L.) For the pls. of مُنْكَرٌ, see نَكِرٌ.
3.
[Denied, or disacknowledged. (See the verb.)
4.
Deemed strange, extraordinary, or improbable, (See again the verb.)]
5.
Any action disapproved, or disallowed, by sound intellects; or deemed, or declared, thereby, to be bad, evil, hateful, abominable, foul, unseemly, ugly, or hideous; or pronounced to be so by the law because the mind deliberates respecting the regarding it as such: and thus it is used in the Qur'an, 9:113 [and other places]: (B, TA:) or anything pronounced to be bad, evil, hateful, abominable, or foul, and forbidden, and disapproved, disliked, or hated, by the law: (TA:) a saying, or an action, unapproved, not approved, unaccepted, or not accepted, by God: (KT:) unbecoming, indecent, or indecorous. (KL.) See مَعْرُوفٌ, voce عُرْفٌ. مُنْكَرٌ and
نُكْرٌ and
نُكُرٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and
نَكْرَاءُ (S, Msb K) are all synonym, (S, A, Msb, K,) [and are used as epithets in which the quality of a subst. predominates,] signifying a bad, an evil, a hateful, an abominable, a foul, an unseemly, an ugly, or a hideous, [and a formidable,] thing or
affair [or action or saying or quality, &c.]: (Msb:) [in this sense, its plural is مُنْكَرَاتٌ and مَنَاكِيرُ; as will be seen below:]
نُكْرٌ is opposite of
عُرْفٌ [which is synonym with مَعْرُوفٌ]. (TA.) You say فِيهِمُ
الْمَعْرُوفُ وَالْمُنْكَرُ, and العُرْفُ والنُّكْرُ, [In them are good and evil qualities.] And هُمْ يَرْكَبُونَ الْمُنْكَرَاتِ, and المَنَاكِيرَ, [They commit bad, evil, abominable, or foul, actions.] (A.) And it is said in the Qur'an, 18:73,] لَقَدْ جِيءْتَ شَيْيءًا نُكْرًا [Verily thou hast done a bad, an evil, an abominable, or a foul, thing]. (S.)
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See also نَكِرٌ.