نقب

نَقَبَ

To perforate, pierce, bore, or make a hole through or into something.

Includes making a hole in a wall, perforating an animal's navel to release fluid, performing the specialized operation of couching the eye, and piercing an animal's hoof to remove what has entered it.

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نَقَبَ

For a misfortune, evil accident, or calamity to befall and afflict someone.

Used in the construction نَقَبَتْهُ نَكْبَةٌ.

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نَقِبَ / نَقَبَ

Of a camel's feet or a person's feet, to become worn thin, perforated, or blistered through walking.

The usage may describe the animal, its hoof covering, or the feet themselves.

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نَقَبَ / نَقِبَ

To patch or repair a boot; also, for a boot to become thin, lacerated, or worn through in holes.

The transitive and intransitive boot usages are conventional applications of the perforation-and-wearing branch.

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نَقَبَ

Of a horse, to run with the feet brought together, in a leaping rather than spreading gait.

A specialized description of running form.

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نَقَبَ عَنْ

To scrutinize, investigate, search into, or inquire deeply into news or another matter.

The construction takes the matter investigated; it can extend to searching into what is hidden, including what is in people's hearts.

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نَقَبَ عَلَى قَوْمِهِ

To act as the representative or overseer of one's people, or to become such a representative.

The lexical distinction between already holding the office and becoming a naqib is grammatical and aspectual, not a separate public meaning.

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نَاقَبَ

To meet someone face to face or encounter someone unexpectedly; to come upon water without seeking it.

The accompanying expression may describe an unplanned or unintended encounter and may function as an adverbial description of state.

• Lane · entry 44283

أَنْقَبَ

Of a camel's feet, to become worn thin or perforated by walking.

This is the Form IV intransitive counterpart of the worn-feet usage.

• Lane · entry 44284

أَنْقَبَ

To become a doorkeeper or chamberlain, or to become a representative or overseer.

A conventional Form IV office-related usage.

• Lane · entry 44284

اِنْتَقَبَ

To veil the face with a niqab.

The definition concerns the act of putting on or wearing the face-veil and is not restricted to the illustrative subject in the source.

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نَقْبٌ

An ulcer arising in the side and penetrating inward into the body.

A specialized pathological usage; related terms may describe ulcers that emerge at the side and penetrate inward.

• Lane · entry 44287

نَقْبٌ

A road or narrow passage in a mountain, especially a way between two mountains.

The word may denote a pass or route through rugged elevated terrain.

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نُقْبٌ

Scab, especially the first patch of scab that appears and then spreads over the body.

The lexical image is connected with the scab's perforating the skin; the word can function as a collective designation.

• Lane · entry 44288

نُقْبٌ

In an idiom, to apply the remedy exactly where it is needed; hence, to be clever or skillful in doing or saying what is right.

This is a figurative expression based on putting tar on the places of scabs.

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نَقِبٌ

Describing a camel whose feet are worn through or thin from walking, or one afflicted with scab.

The two adjectival applications belong to the worn-through and scab branches respectively.

• Lane · entry 44289

نُقْبَةٌ

A mark, trace, or vestige; also a trace of rust on a sword, arrowhead, or spearhead.

The rust usage is a figurative specialization likening the marks to the first appearances of scab.

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نُقْبَةٌ

The face or the parts surrounding the face.

A nominal anatomical usage.

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نُقْبَةٌ

A garment like a loincloth or drawers, made with a waistband and without the upper turned-down section of ordinary trousers.

The term covers the described garment forms, including a legless pair of drawers.

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نُقْبَةٌ

The state, condition, quality, mode, external form, feature, or appearance of something.

Equivalent to a general expression for manner or appearance and used of things such as apparel or outward form.

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نُقْبَةٌ

Colour or complexion.

Used, for example, of an animal having a beautiful colour.

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نِقْبَةٌ

A mode or manner of veiling the face with a niqab.

This denotes the style or manner of veiling rather than the veil as an object.

• Lane · entry 44292

نِقَابٌ

A woman's face-veil that covers the soft part of the nose and reaches toward the eye, traditionally leaving the eye or its circuit visible according to the style.

The sources distinguish several degrees and styles of face covering; the definition is not reduced to one particular arrangement of the eyes or nose.

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نِقَابٌ

A road or pass through rugged ground.

The word can function as either a singular or plural in this geographic sense.

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نِقَابٌ

A person of great knowledge who investigates matters deeply; an intelligent and penetrating man.

A figurative epithet for someone knowledgeable about affairs and accustomed to examining them closely.

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نِقَابٌ

The belly or womb, especially in the proverb about two young birds being in one belly.

A rare idiomatic usage applied to things that resemble one another because they were in one belly.

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نَقِيبٌ

A thing that has been perforated, pierced, or bored through or into.

This is an adjectival or passive-participial application and is distinct from the office-holder noun used in the Quran.

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نَقِيبٌ

A musical reed or pipe.

A specialized noun for an instrument.

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نَقِيبٌ

The tongue or pointer of a balance or pair of scales.

A specialized instrumental or anatomical-like noun for the balancing pointer.

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نَقِيبٌ

A dog whose upper windpipe or throat has been perforated so that its cry is weakened.

A specialized description of a dog subjected to this operation.

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نِقَابَةٌ

The office or position of a naqib, representative, or overseer.

A noun denoting the office rather than the person who holds it.

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نَقِيبَةٌ

Mind, disposition, counsel, or penetrating judgment; hence, a fortunate or sagacious inner quality and conduct.

The expression مَيْمُونُ النَّقِيبَةِ describes someone fortunate in affairs, counsel, actions, or attainment; the related usages include acuteness and natural disposition.

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نَقِيبَةٌ

Colour, complexion, or a natural quality of appearance.

This colour usage is reported alongside the broader disposition sense and is kept distinct from it.

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نَقِيبَةٌ

A she-camel with a large or exceptionally full udder.

The report is lexically disputed in the source, which also records a proposed correction to a different root; it is retained as an attributed Classical usage.

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نَاقِبٌ / نَاقِبَةٌ

A disease caused by prolonged sluggishness or indolence; also an ulcer arising in the side.

The two descriptions are reported as alternative explanations of the specialized term.

• Lane · entry 44298

أَنْقَابٌ

The ears.

A rare plural form reported without an agreed singular, though one source connects it with نُقْبٌ.

• Lane · entry 44299

مَنْقَبٌ

The navel, or the place before it where a perforation is made to release yellow fluid.

Used especially of a beast of carriage in the veterinary procedure described by the sources.

• Lane · entry 44300

مِنْقَبٌ

An iron instrument used by a farrier to perforate an animal's navel.

An instrument noun associated with the veterinary operation.

• Lane · entry 44301

مَنْقَبَةٌ

A narrow way between two houses, a wall-like passage, or a road over elevated ground.

The sources explain the word in several closely related geographic and built-environment applications, including a way conceived as perforating from one side to another.

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مَنْقَبَةٌ

A virtue, excellence, generous action, or memorable quality deserving honour.

The word may denote either the distinguished deed itself or the good inner quality associated with it; its plural is مَنَاقِبُ.

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نَقَبَ

To make a piece of cloth into a نُقْبَة garment.

A specific transitive usage describing the manufacture of the garment called نُقْبَةٌ.

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