نخت doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has 2 entries for it, distinguished by diacritics. Select one below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• نَخَتَ Form 1

  1 نَخَتَ ذ , inf. n. نَخْتٌ, He pecked, or picked up, and pulled off, or tore off, and snatched away, with his beak; syn. نَقَرَ and نَتَخَ, (K,) formed by transposition. (TA.) -b2- نَخَتَ, [aor. نَخُتَ ,] inf. n. نَخْتٌ…

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• نِخّت Form 2

  2 نِخّت لِفُلَانٍ ذ , as also سخّت لَهُ, He went to the utmost length (استقصى) in speaking to such a one. So in the Nawádir. (Az, L.) [Accord. to the K, , inf. n. نَخْتٌ.]…

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