نَكَثَ

, (S, K,) aorist نَكُثَ , (K, Msb,) and نَكِثَ , (K,) verbal noun نَكْثٌ, (TA,) He undid [the threads of] a garment of the kind called كِسَاء, &c.: (Msb:) he undid, or untwisted, a rope. (S, K.)

نَكَثَ السِّوَاكَ, aorist نَكُثَ , verbal noun نَكْثٌ; He, or it, made the head of the tooth-stick to be uncompacted, disintegrated, disunited, or seperated, in its fibres: and so the verb signifies with respect to other things. (TA.) [See also 8.]

نَكَثَ, (aorist نَكُثَ , and نَكِثَ , K, verbal noun نَكْثٌ, TA,) (tropical:) He dissolved, violated, or broke, a covenant, or compact, (S, K,) or an act of inauguration, &c. (TA.)

نَكَثَ عَنِ الأَمْرِ i. q. نَكَصَ (Aboo-Turáb, in TA, article نكص.)