Does "nikah" mean "sex"?

In another question, we have this quote:

I heard that the word "nikah" has a disgusting meaning to it? All this time I thought "nikah" meant marriage, but apparently it means to have sex or f***. -- Iram Ahmed, 2012

I'm skeptical, but I'll ask for a definitive answer here. It's not contested in the comments, but perhaps because they're deleted.

Question: Does "nikah" mean "sex"?

Perhaps there is some way this may be considered true. E.g. the Islam-critical site WikiIslam gives the description "Literally the act of sexual intercourse, nikah is the term by which marriage is referred to in the Qur'an" attributing it to Cyril Glasse, The New Encyclopedia of Islam: Third Edition, Altamira, 2001.

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