ع ن ب

ع ن ب

Arabic

Root

ع ن ب • (ʿ-n-b)

1. lively shoot
2. related to berry-shapes

Derived terms

• Form I: عَنَبَ‎ (ʿanaba, “to drink wine”)
  • Active participle: عَانِب‎ (ʿānib)
• Form II: عَنَّبَ‎ (ʿannaba, “to produce raisins”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعْنِيب‎ (taʿnīb)
  • Active participle: مُعَنِّب‎ (muʿannib)

• عِنَب‎ (ʿinab, “grape”)
• عُنَّاب‎ (ʿunnāb, “jujube”)
• عُنَاب‎ (ʿunāb) and أَعْنَب‎ (ʾaʿnab, “large in the nose; sharp, high, isolated (of a mountain)”)
• عَنَّاب‎ (ʿannāb, “grape vendor”)
• عُنْبُب‎ (ʿunbub, “foremost portion of a torrent, abundance of water”) (compare also ع ب ب‎ (ʿ-b-b))
• عَنَبَان‎ (ʿanabān, “brisk, lively, sprightly”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ع ن ب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 178–179
• Freytag, Georg (1835), “ع ن ب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 227
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ع ن ب”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 378–379
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ع ن ب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2167–2168