نَاقوُسٌ

The thing which the Christians strike, or beat, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K,) to notify the times of prayer, (S, A, Mgh, K,) as a sign for commencing their prayer; (Msb;) being a piece of wood, long, (A, Mgh, K,) and large (K,) [suspended to two cords, (Golius,)] with another which is short, [with which the former is struck, or beaten,] and which is called وَبِيلٌ: (A, K:) plural نَوَاقِيسُ (S, TA) and نُقُسٌ, as though the ا in the singular were imagined to be suppressed in forming the latter plural (TA.)

[Hence, in the present day, applied to A bell: and particularly to the bell of a church or convent.]