Quranic root
نبذ
n · b · dh
The root centers on casting, throwing, or putting something away.
From physical casting or throwing, the lexicon develops uses for disregarding a covenant, withdrawing apart, describing what has been cast out, designating a small amount, and naming a beverage made by casting ingredients into water.
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- Quran-attested forms
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- Quran senses
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
نَبَذَ
nabadha
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 10 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To cast, throw, or fling something away, to a distance, or into a place.
Used for physical casting, including casting from the hand, behind oneself, into water or wilderness, and being cast into a place of punishment; the passive forms retain the same lexical sense.
- Lane · entry 43072
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 20:96word 12
“then threw it”
Quran 28:40word 3
“and We threw them”
Quran 37:145word 1
“But We cast him”
Quran 51:40word 3
“and threw them”
Quran 68:49word 7
“surely he would have been thrown”
Quran 104:4word 2
“Surely he will be thrown”
To cast aside, reject, or disregard a covenant, scripture, or binding commitment; in a treaty context, to repudiate the agreement and declare it dissolved to the other party.
Quranic uses include treating a covenant or revealed book as of little account and formally notifying the other party that a peace agreement has been dissolved.
- Lane · entry 43072
- Lane · entry 43074
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:100word 4
“threw it away”
Quran 2:101word 10
“threw away”
Quran 3:187word 12
“Then they threw it”
Quran 8:58word 6
“throw back”
اِنْتَبَذَ
āintabadha
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form VIII
- Form
- VIII
- Quran occurrences
- 2 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To withdraw, retire, or set oneself apart from others.
The Quranic construction describes deliberate withdrawal to a place apart or remote from one's people.
- Lane · entry 43077
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 19:16word 6
“she withdrew”
Quran 19:22word 2
“and she withdrew”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:100نَّبَذَهُۥthrew it away
- 2:101نَبَذَthrew away
- 3:187فَنَبَذُوهُThen they threw it
- 8:58فَٱنۢبِذْthrow back
- 19:16ٱنتَبَذَتْshe withdrew
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 25 Classical meanings
نَبَذَ
To neglect an affair or fail to carry it out.
A figurative construction for treating an affair as disregarded or leaving it unperformed.
- Lane · entry 43072
نَبَذَ
To utter or put forth a saying.
A figurative use for producing a spoken expression, including a pleasing or well-formed saying.
- Lane · entry 43072
نَبَذَ
To convey or offer a salutation or greeting to someone.
Used with a salutation or greeting as the thing cast or sent to another.
- Lane · entry 43072
نُبِذَ
To have something offered, presented, or placed in one's way.
A passive construction describing receipt of something as though it had been thrown to the recipient.
- Lane · entry 43072
نَبَذَ بِكَ
In an idiomatic expression, to praise the excellence of the mother who bore someone.
Restricted to the reported idiomatic phrase and not a general additional physical meaning.
- Lane · entry 43072
نَبَذَ
To prepare nabīdh by steeping dates, raisins, or similar ingredients in water.
The liquid may be left to ferment and become intoxicating, but the preparation is also called nabīdh before fermentation reaches that stage.
- Lane · entry 43072
يَنْبِذُ
To seethe or chafe against someone, figuratively likened to nabīdh boiling.
An idiomatic comparison involving the beverage nabīdh.
- Lane · entry 43072
نَبَذَ
To pulsate, of a vein.
A dialectal form recorded as a variant of نَبَضَ, distinct from the casting root sense.
- Lane · entry 43072
نَابَذَ
To conclude a sale through a throwing-based bargain, making the sale binding when one party throws the commodity, cloth, or a pebble.
The conventional transaction is called bayʿ al-munābadha and is described as a prohibited form of bargaining.
- Lane · entry 43074
نَابَذَ
To withdraw apart in war or openly undertake hostilities against another party.
The construction can describe opposing parties retiring apart for war or declaring hostile intentions openly and equitably.
- Lane · entry 43074
نَابَذَ
To act contrary, differently, or adversely to someone.
Equivalent to opposing or differing from the other party.
- Lane · entry 43074
نَبْذٌ
A small quantity, small number, or piece of something.
Used of a little amount or portion; the cited objects include property, herbage, rain, grey hair, and perfume, without restricting the meaning to those classes.
- Lane · entry 43078
أَنْبَاذٌ
People of the baser sort; a mixed rabble or refuse of the people.
A plural social description derived from the notion of something cast aside.
- Lane · entry 43078
نَبْذَةٌ
A position or place apart; by extension, sitting aside or apart.
Attested in the construction جَلَسَ نَبْذَةً, ‘he sat apart.’
- Lane · entry 43079
نَبِيذٌ
Cast, thrown, or flung; something cast out.
A lexical equivalent of مَنْبُوذٌ in the reported usage.
- Lane · entry 43081
نَبِيذٌ
Earth or dust thrown out from a hole or other excavation.
A specialized noun for the material removed and cast forth during digging.
- Lane · entry 43081
نَبِيذٌ
A beverage made by steeping dates, raisins, honey, wheat, barley, or similar ingredients in water.
The term applies whether or not the drink has been left long enough to become intoxicating; its feminine noun نَبِيذَةٌ denotes a portion of it.
- Lane · entry 43081
نَبِيذٌ
A cast-out child or foundling.
This use is recorded alongside the equivalent adjective مَنْبُوذٌ, with the naming motivated by being cast out.
- Lane · entry 43081
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نَبَّاذٌ
One who throws things away often or quickly.
An agent noun describing repeated or rapid casting away.
- Lane · entry 43083
نَبَّاذٌ
One who makes or sells nabīdh.
A separate occupational use of the same agent noun.
- Lane · entry 43083
مِنْبَذَةٌ
A pillow or cushion thrown onto the ground for sitting or reclining.
The object is named for being thrown or placed down for use; its plural is مَنَابِذُ.
- Lane · entry 43084
مَنْبُوذٌ
A child cast out in the road at birth and taken up and maintained by another; a foundling.
The term may also be extended to a bastard because such a child is imagined as cast away, though a foundling is not necessarily illegitimate.
- Lane · entry 43085
مَنْبُوذَةٌ
A ewe or other animal rejected as unfit for eating because of extreme leanness.
The designation is motivated by the animal being cast aside.
- Lane · entry 43085
مَنْبُوذٌ
Apart or distant from other graves.
Attested in an alternative reading of a reported phrase about praying at a grave; the interpretation is spatial rather than the foundling sense.
- Lane · entry 43085
مُنْتَبِذٌ
Far from home or set apart and separate from others.
An adjectival or participial use describing a person located remotely or apart.
- Lane · entry 43086
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Historical Lane Quran citations are not converted directly into modern verse keys; modern locations used here are independently supplied by QAC, with Quranic interpretation also supported by the supplied Mufradat evidence.
Lane discusses a Form III construction at the Quranic treaty passage, while QAC assigns the attested Quran word to Form I; the construction is therefore retained as evidence for the Form I covenant-dissolution sense and its distinct Form III war usage is kept under Classical meanings.