ثُمَّ نُكِسُوا۟ عَلَىٰ رُءُوسِهِمْ لَقَدْ عَلِمْتَ مَا هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ يَنطِقُونَ
Quran glossary · draft
نكس
reverse
To turn something downward and backward from its former orientation.
Lexical scope
Scope: curated segment set · Occurrences: 3
Roots: نكس
Lemmas: نكس · ناكسوا · ننكس
Forms: نُكِسُ · نَاكِسُوا۟ · نُنَكِّسْ
Occurrence examples (3 of 3)
Scoped occurrences shown in Quran order: 3.
وَلَوْ تَرَىٰٓ إِذِ ٱلْمُجْرِمُونَ نَاكِسُوا۟ رُءُوسِهِمْ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْ رَبَّنَآ أَبْصَرْنَا وَسَمِعْنَا فَٱرْجِعْنَا نَعْمَلْ صَٰلِحًا إِنَّا مُوقِنُونَ
وَمَن نُّعَمِّرْهُ نُنَكِّسْهُ فِى ٱلْخَلْقِ أَفَلَا يَعْقِلُونَ
Why this meaning was chosen
All three occurrences were inspected on one bounded page. One passive event turns speakers back upon their heads, the active participle lowers heads in shame, and form II reverses a long-lived person within creation. Voice, derived form, participant role, and bodily or life-course scale are compositional.