نَقَدٌ

[a coll. gen. n.] A kind of sheep, of ugly form; (K;) a kind of sheep of El-Bahreyn, having short legs and ugly faces: (S, L:) or a kind of small sheep of El-Hijáz: (L:) or, simply, lambs: (A, L:) [see an example in a prov. cited voce شَامَ in article شيم:] n. un. with ة: (S, L:) applied alike to the male and female: (L:) plural نِقَادٌ, and [quasi-plural n.] نِقَادَةٌ. (L, K.) As says, that the best of wool is that of نَقَد. And one says, أَذَلُّ مِنَ النَّقَدِ [More abject, or vile, than the sheep called نقد]. (S, L.)

Also, (assumed tropical:) The lower sort of people. (L.)

See نُقْدٌ and نَقِدٌ.