نهب
1 نَهَبَ النَّهْبَ
aor. ـَ and نَهُبَ; and نَهِبَهُ,
aor. ـَ (
inf. n. نَهْبٌ;
TA;) and ↓ انتهبه; [and ↓ ناهبه;] He took the spoil, plunder, or booty. (
K.) ↓ الاِنْتِهَابُ is The taking of spoil, plunder, or booty, by whomsoever will: you say ↓ أَنْهَبَ الرَّجُلُ مَالَهُ [the man allowed, or gave, his property to be taken as spoil], ↓ فَانْتَهَبُوهُ, and نَهَبُوهُ, and ↓ نَاهَبُوهُ, which all signify the same, [and they took it as spoil]. (
S.)
b2: نَهَبَهُ الكَلْبُ,
aor. ـَ The dog seized him (a man) by the tendon of his heel. (
S,
K.)
b3: نَهَبُوهُ; (
S,
K;) and ↓ ناهبوه, (
K,)
inf. n. مُنَاهَبَةٌ; (
TA;) (
tropical:) They carped at him in their speech, (
S,
K,) or, with their tongues, and spoke roughly, harshly, or coarsely, to him: [as though they plundered him of his good name]. (
A.) 3 نَاْهَبَ see 1.
b2: ناهب الفَرَسُ الفَرَسَ,
inf. n. مُنَاهَبَةٌ, (
tropical:) The [one] horse emulated, or contended with, the [other] horse in running. (
TA: and agreeably with this the
inf. n. is explained in the
S and
K.)
b3: Used not only with reference to a horse. The
Rájiz says, نَاهَبْتُهُمْ بِنَيْطَلٍ جَرُوفِ [I emulated them, or contended with them, with a bucket that took up much water]. (
S.) See also 6.
4 انهب الرَّجُلُ مَالَهُ (
S) The man allowed, or gave, his property to be taken as spoil, plunder, or booty. (
TA.) It is doubly
trans.: you say أَنْهَبْتُ زَبْدًا المَالَ [I allowed Zeyd to take the property as spoil]. (
Msb.) See 1. انهبهُ فُلَانًا He offered it, or exposed it, to such a one, [to be taken as spoil]. (
TA.) 6 تناهب الفَرَسَانِ (
tropical:) The two horses emulated, or contended with, each other. (
TA.) See also 3.
b2: تَنَاهَبَا المَآءَ
i. q. تَجَاشَعَاهُ,
q. v. (
TA, in art. جشع.)
b3: تَنَاهَبَتِ الإِبِلُ الأَرْضَ (
tropical:) The camels took much of the ground with their legs: (
K:) [
app. meaning, took wide strides over it: not, as rendered by Golius, “multum pulveris pedibus suis rapuerunt; ” nor, as rendered by Freytag, “ multum terræ pedibus abstulerunt ”].
b4: الإِبِلُ يَنْهَبْنَ السُّرَى, and يَتَنَاهَبْنَهُ, [The camels perform the night-journey with large strides]: and [in like manner] تناهبتِ الأَرْضَ. Camels that do so are termed إِبِلٌ نَوَاهِبُ. (
A.) 8 إِنْتَهَبَ see 1.
b2: انتهب الفَرَسُ الشَّوْطَ (
tropical:) The horse gained the winning-post; or won the race. (
K,
TA.) نَهْبٌ Spoil; plunder; booty; (
S,
K;) as also ↓ نُهْبَةٌ: (
TA, art. خلس:)
ex. أَتَى لَهُ بِنَهْبٍ he came to him with, or brought to him, spoil: (
TA:)
pl. نِهَابٌ (
S,
K) and نُهُوب: (
Nh, &c:) ↓ نُهْبَى also signifies the same; and thus is similar to نُحْلَى, meaning عَطِيَّةٌ: and also signifies what is allowed, or given, to be taken as spoil, plunder, or booty; and thus is similar to عُمْرَى and رُقْبَى; (
IAth;) and so ↓ نُهْبَةٌ (
Msb) [and ↓ نُهَيْبَى and ↓ نُهَّيْبَى:] a man, named Fizr, said of some goats which he drove forth, هِىَ النُّهَّيْبَى, or النُّهَيْبَى,
accord. to different readings; meaning that it was not allowable to any one person to take of them more than one (
TA:) or نَهْبٌ signifies what is taken as spoil, plunder, or booty; or so taken by whomsoever will, of what is allowed to be so taken:
syn. مَا انْتُهِبَ: (
Lh,
K:) and ↓ نُهْبَى, what is allowed to be so taken;
syn. إِسْمُ مَا أُنْهِبَ: (
S:) or what is taken as spoil, plunder, or booty;
syn. إِسْمُ مَا نُهِبَ. (So in one copy of the
S.)
b2: [Hence] نَهْبٌ An incursion made into an enemy's territory for the sake of acquiring spoil, plunder, or booty; and a spoiling, or plundering. (
TA.)
A2: أَحْرَزْتُ نَهْبِى وَأَبْتَغِى النَّوَافِلَ, in a
trad. of Aboo-Beker, means I have accomplished what I had to perform of the prayers termed الوِتْرُ before my sleeping, lest the occasion for my doing so should slip from me; and when I awake, I perform the prayers termed النوافل. (
TA.) [He termed the وتر prayers نَهْبٌ because he performed them before the right time.]
A3: نَهْبٌ (
tropical:) A kind of رَكْض [i. e.,
app., of running, with reference to a horse]. (
Lh,
K.) نُهْبَةٌ and ↓ نُهْبَى (
Lh,
Mgh,
Msb,
K) and ↓ نُهَيْبَى and نُهَّيْبَى (
K) Spoil, plunder, or booty; a thing taken as spoil: (
Mgh,
Msb:) and also Spoliation; a taking of spoil, plunder, or booty: (
Mgh:) substs. from نَهَبَ: (
K:) and substs. in the sense of اِنْتِهَابٌ: (
Lh,
Mgh:) ↓ نُهْبَى is explained in the Towsheeh as signifying the taking of a Muslim's property by force: it is said, [of Mohammad,] in a
trad., that he seattered some articles of property, and the people did not take them; so he asked them why they did not take; and they replied أَوَلَيْسَ قَدْ نَهَيْتَ عَنِ النُّهْبَى [Hast thou not forbidden spoliation?]; but he said إِنَّمَا نَهَيْتُ عَنْ نُهْبَى العَسَاكِرِ [I have only forbidden soldiers' spoliation]. (
TA.) See نَهْبٌ.
نُهْبَى: see نَهْبٌ and نُهْبَةٌ.
نُهَيْبَى: see نَهْبٌ and نُهْبَةٌ.
نُهَّنْبَى: see نَهْبٌ and نُهْبَةٌ.
إِبِلٌ نَوَاهِبُ [
pl. of نَاهِبٌ and نَاهِبَهٌ]: see 6.
مِنْهَبٌ A horse that excels in running: (
K:) and in like manner an ass. (
TA.) مَنْهُوبٌ What is sought, or sought after, quickly:
syn. مَطْلُوبٌ مُعَجَّلٌ. (
K.)
