ن ب ش
Arabic
Root
ن ب ش • (n-b-š)
- related to digging up
- Alternative form of ن ض ب (n ḍ b)
Derived terms
- Form I: نَبَشَ (nabaša, “to disinter, to dig up, to claw up, to unearth”)
- Verbal noun: نَبْش (nabš)
- Active participle: نَابِش (nābiš)
- Passive participle: مَنْبُوش (manbūš)
- Form II: نَبَّشَ (nabbaša, “to scavenge, to rifle”)
- Verbal noun: تَنْبِيش (tanbīš)
- Active participle: مُنَبِّش (munabbiš)
- Passive participle: مُنَبَّش (munabbaš)
- Form V: تَنَبَّشَ (tanabbaša, “to endeavour to unearth”)
- Verbal noun: تَنَبُّش (tanabbuš)
- Active participle: مُتَنَبِّش (mutanabbiš)
- Passive participle: مُتَنَبَّش (mutanabbaš)
- Form VIII: اِنْتَبَشَ (intabaša, “to unearth”)
- Verbal noun: اِنْتِبَاش (intibāš)
- Active participle: مُنْتَبِش (muntabiš)
- Passive participle: مُنْتَبَش (muntabaš)
- نَبِيشَة (nabīša, “earth dug out”)
- نَبَّاش (nabbāš, “gravedigger”)
- أُنْبُوش (ʾunbūš, “the lower part of a plant that is drawn out”)
- نِبَاشَة (nibāša, “gravedigger trade”)
References
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ن ب ش”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 636
- Freytag, Georg (1837), “ن ب ش”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 231b
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ن ب ش”, 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 Cie, page 1184
- Lane, Edward William (1863), “ن ب ش”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2758
- Wehr, Hans (1979), “ن ب ش”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1102