نَقْدٌ

[properly a verbal noun used in the sense of a pass. particle n., and thus signifying “ paid, ” Cash, or ready money: or simply money]. You say نَقْدٌ جَيِّدٌ [Good cash, or ready money: or good money]: plural نُقُودٌ جِيَادٌ. (A.) التَّقْدَانِ signifies Silver and gold money; dirhems and deenárs. (TA in article عرض.)

نَقْدٌ Payment in cash, or ready money; opposite of نَسْييءَةٌ: (L, K:) the giving of نَقْد [i. e., cash, or ready money]: (K:) [a verbal noun: see 1].

الدِّرْهَمُ نَقْدٌ The piece of money is of full weight, (S, L, K, *) and good. (S, L.)

هٰذِهِ مِايءَةٌ نَقْدُ النَّاسِ [This is a hundred, ready money of the people] is a phrase used by the Arabs, in which ل is meant to be understood [before النّاس: i. e. الناس is for لِلنَّاسِ; and نَقْدُ for نَقْدٌ, as an epithet of مايءة; you may also say نَقْدَ النَاس, making نقد a denotative of state; but] the epithetic mode of construction is that which prevails in this case. (Sb, L.)

نَقْدٌ.

The saying of the poet,

لَتُنْتَجَنَّ وَلَدًا أَوْ نَقْدَا

means She will certainly bring forth a she-camel, which shall be a permanent acquisition for breeding, or a male, which shall be sold: for they seldom kept the male camels. (Th, L.)