نُحَاس

nuHaAsN * (S, K, &c.) and ↓ niHaAsN (Fr, K) and ↓ naHaAsN , (K,) the last, (TA,) or all, (K,) on the authority of Abu-l-'Abbás El-Kawáshee, (K,) a word of well-known meaning; (S;) Copper: and brass; syn. qiTorN : (K:) or SuforN : (Ibn-Buzurj:) or a species of Sufor intensely red: (TA:) a chaste Arabic word. (TA.) -A2- Also, Fire: (IF, K:) and the sparks that fall from brass ( Sufor ), or from iron, when it is beaten (AO, K) with the hammer: (TA:) or nuHaAsN signifies smoke: so in the Kur, lv. 35: (Fr, Az, Bd, and others; accord. to Az, all the interpreters of the Kur.; and it is wonderful that the author of the K has omitted this signification: TA:) but some say that it is ↓ niHaAsN signifies the smoke of Sufor ; and nuHaAsN signifies Sufor itself: (Ibn-Buzurj:) or the latter signifies smoke in which is no flame: (S, Jel:) or smoke that rises high, and of which the heat is weak, and which is free from flame: (AHn:) or molten Sufor : (Bd:) and some read nuHusN , which is the pl. (Bd.) -A3- See also niHaAsN .

niHaAsN * (S, A, K) and ↓ nuHaAsN (S, K) and ↓ naHaAsN (K, but excluded by the TA) Nature; natural, or native, disposition or temper or other quality or property: (S, A, K, TA:) and origin: (S, A, TA:) or that to which the origin of a thing reaches. (IAar, K.) You say, fulaAnN kariymu Aln~iHaAsi , (S, A,) and ↓ Aln~uHaAsi , (S,) Such a one is generous of nature, &c., and origin. (S, A.) -A2- See also nuHaAsN , in two places.