نس

أ1 نَسَأَ, aor. ـَ (S, K,) inf. n. نَسْءٌ; (S;) and ↓ نسّأ, (S, K,) inf. n. تَنْسِئَةٌ, (S,) He chid (S, K) a camel (S) &c. (L) he urged, or drove, it. (S, K.) b2: نَسَأَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. نَسْءٌ (S, K) and مَنْسَأَةٌ (K) [and نَسُوْءٌ, mentioned in the TA, art. وضأ;] and ↓ انسأ; (S, K;) He postponed, or delayed, a thing. (S, K. Explained in the S, K by أَخَّرَ, and in the K by كَلَأَ, also, both of which words, accord. to the TA, are syn.) [See an ex. of the use of انسا, without a final ء, in art. عقب, voce عُقْبَة.] b3: نَسَأَ اللّٰهُ فى أَجَلِهِ, and اللّٰهُ أَجَلَهُ ↓ انسأ, God postponed the end of his life; i. e., prolonged his life: (so in the Fs:) accord. to IKtt, نسأ اللّٰهُ اجله, and انسأ ↓ فى اجله. (TA.) All of these four modes of expression are allowable: (MF:) as also نسّأ ↓ اللّٰه اجله: (Z:) and نَسَأَهُ اللّٰه فى اجله, and ↓ أَنْسَأَهُ اللّٰه أَجَلَهُ. (As, S.) b4: أُنْسِئَ لَهُ فِى عُمُرِهِ, His life was prolonged. (TA, from a trad.) b5: نَسَأَ الإِبِلَ, inf. n. نَسْءٌ, He delayed or deferred the watering of the camels; or kept them from water beyond the accustomed time. (L.) b6: نَسَأَ فِى

ظِمْءِ الإِبِلِ, (S, K,) inf. n. نَسْءٌ, (S,) He increased the time between the two drinkings, or waterings, of the camels, by a day: (A:) or by a day, or two days, or more. (A, L, K.) b7: نَسَأَ الإِبِلَ عَنِ الحَوْضِ He kept back, or put back, or drove back, the camels from the tank, or cistern. (S, L, K. *) b8: مَالَهُ نَسَأَهُ اللّٰهُ What aileth him! May God render him ignominious! (Kr, L,) or put him backward! (L.) Whom he puts backward, He renders ignominious. (L.) b9: نَسَأَ, inf. n. نَسْءٌ, He sold a thing with postponement of the payment; he sold it upon credit. (TA.) b10: نَسَأَهُ البَيْعَ, and البيع ↓ انسأَهُ, He made the sale to him to be on credit. (S, K.) المَبِيعَ ↓ انسأَهُ He postponed for him the period of the payment of the price of the thing sold. (A.) b11: نَسَأَ عَنْهُ دَيْنَهُ, inf. n. نَسَآءٌ; (Akh, S;) and دينه ↓ انسأهُ, (S, * K,) and انسأهُ ↓ الدَّيْنَ ; (Akh, S;) He postponed for him the period of the payment of his debt. (S, TA.) b12: نُسِئَتْ, a verb like عُنِىَ, [i. e., pass. in form, but neut. in sense,] aor. ـْ inf. n. نَسْءٌ, Her menstrual discharge was later than its usual time, and it was therefore hoped that she was pregnant: (Kh, S, K:) or her menstrual discharge was later than its usual time, and her pregnancy commenced: (TA:) or she began to be pregnant: (As, S:) or she conceived. (As.) A2: نَسَأَ اللَّبَنَ, (S, K, *) inf. n. نَسْءٌ, (TA,) He mixed the milk with water. (S, K. *) b2: نسأ لَهُ اللَّبَنَ, and نسأهُ اللّبن, He mixed the milk with water for him. (TA.) b3: نَسَأَهُ He gave him to drink نَسْء, q. v.; (K;) i. e. wine, or milk. (TA.) b4: نَسَأَتْ She (an antelope) licked her young one just after its birth. (K.) A3: نَسَأَ, (S, K,) inf. n. نَسْءٌ, (S,) It (a camel, sheep, &c.,) became fat: (TA:) or began to grow fat; when its soft hair (وَبَر), after falling off, began to grow again. (S, K.) 2 نَسَّاَ see 1.4 أَنْسَاَ see 1. b2: انسأهُ He granted him a delay of payment, or granted him credit, in a sale, or in the case of a debt. (A.) b3: أَنْسَأْتُ سُرْبَتِى I made my way to lead me far off. (S.) [See art. سرب.]5 تَنَسَّاَ see 8.8 انتسأ It was postponed, or delayed; syn. تَأَخَّرَ. (A.) b2: انتسأ He (a camel, S,) went far off in the pasture. (S, K.) b3: It (a party of people) went far off. (TA.) b4: انتسأ عَنْهُ He retired, or withdrew far off, from him or it. (S.) انْتَسُوا and تَنَسَّوا occur in two readings of a trad., for انْتَسِئُوا, (which is the correct reading,) in this sense. (TA.) [Hence it appears that ↓ تنسّأ, accord. to some, also signifies he retired, &c.]10 استنسأهُ He asked him to postpone or to grant him a delay in, the payment of his debt. (S, K.) [See also 1.] b2: استنسأهُ البَيْعَ He asked him to make the sale to be on credit, or for payment at a future period. (A.) b3: استنسأ غَرِيمَهُ He asked his creditor to grant him a delay in the payment of his debt. (A.) نَسْءٌ and ↓ نُسْءٌ and ↓ نِسْءٌ A woman who is supposed to be pregnant; (K;) as also ↓ نَسُوْءٌ (A, K) and ↓ نُسُوْءٌ: (A:) or in whom pregnancy has appeared: (K:) or, نَسْءٌ (K) and ↓ نَسُوْءٌ, (TA,) as also ↓ نَسِىْءٌ, accord. to J and IM, but this is rejected by F, (TA,) a woman whose menstrual discharge is later than its usual time, and who is therefore hoped to be pregnant: (S, K:) pl. [of نسء] أَنْسَآءٌ and نُسُوْءٌ: and نِسْوَةٌ نِسَآءٌ is also said; and sometimes the sing. (نَسْءٌ), being originally an inf. n., is used as a pl. (TA.) A2: نَسْءٌ and ↓ نَسِىْءٌ Thin, watery, milk: (K:) or milk mixed with water. (T, S.) [See 1.] b2: Also, both words, (TA,) or the former only; (K, MF;) but ↓ نِسِىْءٌ is quoted in this sense, from IAar, who is said to have pronounced it thus, erroneously, for نَسِىْءٌ; (TA;) Wine; (IAar;) drink that dispels the reason. (K.) A3: نَسْءٌ Fatness: or its commencement; (K;) its completeness, (consequent upon eating dry food, being called إِقْتِرَارٌ. (S.) b2: جَرَى النَّسْءُ فى

الدَّوَابِّ, (S,) or مَارَ, (TA,) [Fatness, or its commencement, ran through the beasts of carriage].

نِسْءٌ One who mixes, or converses, with others: ex. هُوَ نِسْءُ نِسَآءٍ He is one who mixes, or converses, with women. (K.) b2: See نَسْءٌ.

نُسْءٌ and نَسُوْءٌ and نُسُوْءٌ and نَسِىْءٌ and نِسِىْءٌ: see نَسْءٌ.

نَسَآءٌ Length of life. (Akh, S, K.) b2: The Fakeeh of the Arabs [El-Hárith Ibn-Keledeh, as said in the Mz, close of 39th نوع, where the following is quoted,] says, مَنْ سَرَّهُ النَّسَآءُ وَلَا نَسَآءَ فَلْيُخَفِّفِ الرِّدَآءَ وَلْيُبَاكِرِ الغَدَآءَ وَلْيُؤَخِّرِ العَشَآءَ وَلْيُقِلَّ غِشْيَانَ النِّسَآءِ [Let him whom length of life rejoiceth (but there is no long endurance in life) lighten his debts, and make his morning-meal early, and delay his evening-meal, and take little enjoyment in women]: (S, * TA:) الرداء here means debt. (T, M, TA, in art. ردى, where this saying is cited with some variations.) نَسِىْءٌ, of the measure فَعِيلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ, (S,) A month which the Arabs, in the time of paganism, postponed: (K:) the doing of which is forbidden in the Kur, ix. 37. (S.) b2: Also, as an inf. n. of نَسَأَ, (which it is also said to be in the L,) The postponing of a month: i. e., the postponing of the sacredness of a month; transferring it to another month. When the Arabs returned from Mina, [after the accomplishment of the pilgrimage,] it was customary for a man of the tribe of Kináneh to arise and say, أَنَا الَّذِى لَا يُرَدُّ لِى قَضَآءٌ [“ I am he whose decree is not to be rejected ”]; (S;) or إِنِّى لَا أُحَابُ وَلَا أُعَابُ وَلَا يُرَدُّ قَوْلِى, or ولا يردّ مَا قَضَيْتُ بِهِ; [“ Verily I am not to be accused of a sin, nor am I to be charged with a fault, nor is my saying, (or decree,) to be rejected; ”] (TA;) whereupon they would say, أَنْسِئْنَا شَهْرًا [“ Postpone for us a month ”]; i. e., “ Postpone for us the sacredness of El-Mo- harram, and transfer it to Safar: ” for they disliked that three months during which they might not make predatory expeditions should come upon them consecutively, as their subsistence was obtained by such expeditions: so he made ElMoharram free from restriction to them. (S.) [But this, as appears from what is said in the Kur, ix. 37, was not done every year.] The tribes of Teiyi and Khath'am did not observe the sacred months; therefore the نَاسِئ (or postponer) proclaimed it lawful to slay them therein, when they were aggressors. (TA.) b3: [The term نَسِىْء appears also to have been applied to The postponement of the time of the pilgrimage; which was another custom of the Pagan Arabs, mentioned under this word in the TA.] The Arabs, liking that the day of their return from pilgrimage should always be at one season of the year, postponed it every year eleven days; at the same time keeping sacred the two months in which the pilgrimage took place, and the month next after those two, and also the month of Rejeb, at whatever season this fell. (TA.) [For the same purpose, at one time, they used to intercalate a month in the third and sixth and eight of every eight years. See Kur, ix. 36, where the prohibition of this custom is implied; and Sale's Prel. Disc., § vii.]. b4: See نَسْءٌ. b5: نَسِىْءٌ (K, TA) and ↓ نَسِيْئَةٌ and ↓ نُسْأَةٌ, (S, K,) like كُلْأَةٌ, (S,) A postponement, or delay, as to the time of the payment of a debt, or of the price of a thing sold, &c. (S, K, TA.) The first is a subst.; (K;) and also an inf. n.; (L;) [and each of the others seems to be sometimes used as such]. b6: ↓ بَاعَهُ بِنَسِيْئَةٍ, and ↓ بِنُسْأَةٍ, (as also بِكُلْأَةٍ, S,) He sold it on credit; for payment to be made at a future period. (S, K, TA.) نَسِيْئَةٌ: see نَسِىْءٌ. b2: Also, A debt of which the payment is deferred by the creditor to a future period. (TA.) b3: A sale upon credit, in which the payment is deferred to a certain, or definite, period. (TA.) نَاسِئٌ, pl. نَسَأَةٌ (S) and نَاسِئُونَ, (TA,) One whose office it was to perform the act called نَسِىْء; i. e., the postponing of a month: (S, TA:) he was also called قَلَمَّسٌ, pl. قَلَامِسُ. (TA.) A2: نَاسِئٌ Anything fat: or beginning to grow fat: in the K it is said, كُلُّ نَاسِئٍ سَمِينٌ: in the L, كلّ سمين ناسئ, which is more proper. (TA.) مَنْسَأَةٌ: see 1. b2: صِلَةُ الرَّحِمِ مَثْرَاةٌ فِى المَالِ مَنْسَأَةٌ فِى الأَثَرِ [Union with kindred is a means of multiplying wealth, a means of prolonging one's memorial]. (TA, from a trad.) A2: See مِنْسَأَةٌ.

مِنْسَأَةٌ (S, K) and ↓ مَنْسَأَةٌ, (K,) and also without ء, (S, K,) A staff, or stick: so called because a beast is urged or driven with it: (K:) a pastor's great staff. (TA.) For مِنْسَأَتَهُ, in the Kur, xxxiv. 13, some read مِنْ سَأَتِهِ; i. e. “ from, or of, the end of his staff; ” سأَة originally signifying the “ bent part at each end of a bow; ” (Fr, TA, &c.;) and being here used tropically. (TA.) This reading is disapproved by the author of the K. but is supported by good authorities. (TA.) مُنْتَسَأٌ An interval; a distance; a space. (S.) إِنَّ لِى عَنْكَ لَمُنْتَسَأٌ Verily I am far from thee. (S.)

نصب

1 نَصَبَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. نَصْبٌ; (S, K;) and ↓ نصّب; (K;) He set up, put up, set upright, erected, a thing: (S:) he elevated, raised, reared, a thing. (K.) b2: He set up, a stone as a sign, or mark. (Msb.) b3: نَصَبَ رَأْسَهُ He raised his head. (TA.) b4: نَصِبَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. نَصَبٌ, He (a goat) had erect ears. (S: the inf. n. only mentioned.) b5: نَصَبْتُ فُلاَنًا لِكَذَا I set, or set up, such a one as an obstacle to such a thing, or as a butt for such a thing, like the butt of archers. (TA, art. عرض.) b6: نُصِبَ فُلَانٌ لِعِمَارَةِ البَلَدِ (tropical:) [Such a one was set up, or appointed, for the putting, or keeping, of the town, or district, in a flourishing or prosperous state, with respect to building, culture, population, &c.]. (A.) b7: نَصَبَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. نَصْبٌ, (S, K,) or نَصَبَ نَصْبَ العَرَبِ, (S,) (assumed tropical:) He sang, or chanted, a kind of song, or chant, peculiar to the Arabs, (S, K, &c.,) of the description termed حُدَاء, (K,) [by which camels are urged, or excited,] or a kind of song (K) resembling what is thus termed, (S,) but finer, or more delicate. (S, K.) What is termed نَصْبٌ is The kind of singing, or chanting, above described: (S, K:) or a kind of حُدَاء resembling singing: (AA:) or a kind of modulation: (Sh:) or a kind of song, or chant, of the Arabs: (ISd:) or, of the Arabs of the desert: (TA:) or poetry such as is commonly recited, well regulated and set to an air: (Nh:) so called because, in [singing or chanting] it, the voice is raised, or elevated. (The Fáïk.) b8: نَصَبَ الحَرْفَ, [aor. ـِ (not نَصُبَ,) inf. n. نَصْبٌ,] He wrote, or pronounced, the [final] letter with نَصْب; (S;) which is, in the case of the final inflection of a word, like فَتْح in the non-inflection: (S, K:) [i. e., he wrote it, or pronounced it, with Bً or نَصَبَ:) so called because the sound of a word of which the final letter is so pronounced rises to the highest cavity of the mouth. (Lth.) A conv. term of grammar. (S, K.) نَصَبَ الكَلِمَةَ [He wrote, or pronounced, the word with نَصْب, i. e., making its vowel of inflection Bً or نَصَبَ &c., according to the rules of grammar:] he made the word to have fet-hah as its vowel of inflection. (Msb.) b9: نَصَبَ لَه الحَرْبَ, (inf. n. نَصْبٌ, TA,) He made war upon him: syn. وَضَعَ. (K.) b10: Of anything that is raised, and with which one goes to meet, or encounter, a thing, one says نُصِبَ, and of the agent, نَصَبَ. (M, K.) b11: نَصَبَ لَهُ, aor. ـُ inf. n. نَصْبٌ, (tropical:) He acted with hostility, or enmity, towards him. (S, K.) See also 3. b12: نَصَبْتُ لَهُ رَأْيًا (tropical:) I gave him counsel from which he should not deviate. (A.) b13: نَصَبَ, aor. ـُ (inf. n. نَصْبٌ, TA,) He put down a thing: syn. وَضَعَ. Thus the verb bears two contr. significations. (K.) b14: [He set, or put, absolutely: often used in this sense.] b15: نَصَبَهُ, aor. ـِ and ↓ انصبه, (inf. n. إِنْصَابٌ, TA,) It (disease) pained him; occasioned him pain. (K.) b16: نَصَبَ السَّيْرَ, aor. ـُ (inf. n. نَصْبٌ, TA,) (assumed tropical:) He strove, or exerted himself, unusually in his pace: (K:) or نَصَبَ signifies he pursued his journey with diligence, or energy: (TA:) or he travelled on all the day, at a gentle pace: (S, K:) or he journeyed on all the night. (TA.) En-Nadr says, النَّصْبُ is the first pace; then, الدَّبَبُ, [but see وَسَجَ;] then, العَنَقُ; then, التَّزَيُّدُ; then, العَسْجُ; then, الرَّتْكُ; then, الوَخْدُ; then, الهَمْلَجَةُ. (TA.) A2: نَصِبَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. نَصَبٌ, He was fatigued, tired, or wearied, (S, K.) b2: نَصِبَ, inf. n. نَصَبٌ, He suffered difficulty, trouble, distress, or affliction. (TA.) b3: نَصِبَ He strove; laboured; or toiled. (K.) b4: فَإِذَا فَرَغْتَ فَانْصَبْ [Kur, xciv. 7,] signifies and when thou shalt have finished thy prescribed prayers, fatigue thyself in supplication: (Katádeh, Jel:) or when thou shalt have finished the obligatory prayers, fatigue thyself in the performance of the voluntary. (TA.) See نَاصِبٌ.2 نصّبت الخَيْلُ آذَانَهَا The horses erected their ears often, or exceedingly. The teshdeed is to render the signification frequentative or intensive. (S.) b2: See 1, and 3.3 ناصبه الشَّرَّ, (inf. n. مُنَاصَبَةٌ, TA,) (tropical:) He made an open show of evil conduct, mischief, or malevolence, to him; (K;) and in like manner, of enmity, (TA,) and of war; (S, TA;) as also ↓ نَصَبَهُ, (K,) unaugmented. (TA: in the CK, ↓ نصّبه.) See also نَصَبَ لَهُ.4 انصبه He fatigued, tired, or wearied, him: (S, K:) it (an affair) fatigued him, &c.: (TA:) it (grief, or anxiety,) fatigued, tired, or wearied, him; (CK, TA;) as also ↓ نَصِبَ لَهُ; (TA;) and perhaps ↓ نَصَبَهُ is also used in this sense, with reference to grief, or anxiety. (K.) See 1.

A2: انصب الحَدِيثَ إِلَى رَسُولِ اللّٰهِ He ascribed, or attributed, the tradition to the Apostle of God; syn. أَسْنَدَهُ إِلَيْهِ and رَفَعَهُ. (TA.) A3: انصبه He assigned him, or gave him, a نَصِيب; i. e., a lot, or portion. (K.) A4: انصب السِّكِّينَ He made, or put, a handle (نِصَاب) to the knife. (S, K.) 5 تنصّبتِ الأُتُنُ حَوْلَ الحِمَارِ The she-asses stood round the he-ass. (S, K.) b2: See 8.6 تناصبوه They divided it into lots, or portions, among themselves. (TA.) 8 انتصب and ↓ تنصّب, quasi-pass. of نَصَبَ and نَصَّبَ, He, or it, became set up, put up, set upright, or erected; stood up, or upright, or erect; became elevated, raised, or reared: (K:) became even and erect. (TA, art. نص.) b2: He stood erect, raising his head. (TA.) b3: [It was, or became, erect, vertical, or perpendicular.] b4: [انتصب شَعَرُهُ His hair, being full-grown, stood out: see مُنْتَصِبٌ.] b5: انتصب (TA) and ↓ تنصّب (K) (tropical:) It (dust) rose high. (K, TA.) b6: إِنْتَصِبْ Set up thy cooking-pot [upon the مِنْصَب, or trivet,] to cook, said to a cook. (IAar.) b7: انتصبت أَشْنَانُهُ إِلَى قُدَّامٍ [Its teeth stood out forwards: see مُنْتَصِبٌ:] said of a mouth. (TA, art. دفق.) b8: [اِنْتِصَابٌ is often used absolutely as meaning An erection of the penis.] b9: انتصب الحَرْفُ The letter [meaning the final letter of a word] was written, or pronounced, with نَصْب: [see نَصَبَ الحَرْفَ]. (S.) نَصْبٌ: see نَصَبَ, (of which it is the inf. n.,) throughout. b2: نَصْبٌ and ↓ نَصَبَ and ↓ نُصُبٌ and ↓ نَصِيبَةٌ A sign, or mark, set up to show the way; or a standard set up: syn. عَلَمٌ مَنْصُوبٌ: (K:) i. e., set up [as a sign] to a people: (TA:) or نُصُبٌ is pl. of نَصِيبَةٌ, like as سُفُنٌ is of سَفِينَةٌ. (Lth, TA.) Also, ↓ نُصْبَةٌ, A pole, or mast; syn. سَارِيَةٌ; (K;) set up to show the way: (TA:) also, ↓ أَنَاصِيبُ and ↓ تَنَاصِيبُ (pls. which have no sings., TA,) Signs, or marks, or stones, set up to show the way; syn. أَعْلَامٌ and صُوًى: (K:) stones set up on the tops of isolated small mountains, whereby travellers are to be directed: (TA:) also, ↓ يَنْصُوبٌ [pl. يَنَاصِيبُ] signifies A sign, or mark, set up to show the way in a desert. (Fr.) In the Kur, lxx., last verse but one, some read نَصْبٍ, meaning as above: others نُصُبٍ, meaning “ idols. ” (Zj.) b3: نَصْبٌ also signifies A goal; or limit; syn. غَايَةٌ: (K:) or rather, some say that it has this signification [in the verse of the Kur. above referred to]; but the former meaning, of “ a sign, &c.,” is the more correct. (TA.) b4: See also نُصْبٌ and نُصُبٌ, below. b5: نَصْبٌ, with respect to rhyme in a verse, is The being free from anything that would mar it, (Akh, K,) when the verse itself is not curtailed; for when the verse is curtailed, the term نصب is not applicable, though the rhyme be perfect: accord. to an explanation received from the Arabs: not one of the terms of Kh. (Akh.) Derived from الاِنْتِصَابُ, as signifying “ the standing erect; being tall; making one's self tall, by stretching the neck; ” and therefore not applied to verse that is curtailed. (IJ, ISd.) b6: نَصْبٌ One who is set, or set up, as an obstacle to a thing, or as a butt for a thing, like the butt of archers. (TA, art. عرض.) See 1. b7: نَصْبٌ [A peculiar mode of singing, or chanting: or a peculiar kind of song, or chant]: (See 1.) هٰذَا نُصْبُ عَيْنِى, and عينى ↓ نَصْبُ, or the latter is a barbarism, (K,) disallowed by KT; but it is allowed by Mtr; and said to have been heard from the Arabs [of the classical ages]; This is a conspicuous object of my eye; a thing in full view of my eye: said of a thing that is manifest, or conspicuous, [standing before one,] and even when it is lying, or thrown down. (TA.) b2: جَعَلْتُهُ نصبَ عينى I made him, or it, a conspicuous object, or a thing in full view, of my eye. (TA.) b3: Mtr says, that نَصْب, in this case, is an inf. n. used in the sense of a pass. part. n., and means an object [as it were set, or set up,] conspicuously seen of the eye, so as not to be forgotten, nor to be unheeded, nor to be placed behind the back, or uncared for, or disregarded. (MF.) b4: نُصْبٌ (S, K) and ↓ نَصْبٌ and ↓ نُصُبٌ (K) Evil; (S;) trial; affliction; misfortune: (S, K:) so in the Kur, xxxviii., 40: (S:) disease: (K:) affliction occasioned by disease. (Lth.) See also نَصَب.

نِصْبٌ: see نَصِيبٌ.

نَصَبٌ [as a subst.] Fatigue; weariness; toil. b2: Difficulty; trouble; distress; affliction. (TA.) See the verb: and see نَصْبٌ.

نَصِبٌ Diseased; sick; and in pain. (K.) نُصُبٌ: see نَصْبٌ. b2: نُصُبٌ (K, Msb) and ↓ نُصْبٌ (K: accord. to the S, the latter is sometimes written نُصُبٌ: [but it seems that نُصُبٌ is the more common of the two words:]) and ↓ نَصْبٌ (S, Msb) What is set up and worshipped to the exclusion of, or in preference to, the true God: (S:) or anything that is so worshipped: (K:) or a stone that is set up and so worshipped: (Msb:) the pl. of نُصُبٌ is أَنْصَابٌ: (S, Msb:) or نُصُبٌ is a pl. of نَصْبٌ, like as سُقُفٌ is of سَقْفٌ: (Msb:) or it is a pl. of which the sing. is نِصَابٌ; and it may be a sing., the pl. of which is أَنْصَابٌ: (Zj:) which last word, accord. to some, is syn. with

أَصْنَامٌ: but others deny this; because اصنام are figured and sculptured or painted; whereas انصاب are of an opposite description. (Msb.) [See a verse cited in art. مور.] b3: Also, الأَنْصَابُ Certain stones which were set up around the Kaabeh, over which it was customary for the name of some deity to be pronounced in the killing of animals (يُهَلُّ عَلَيْهَا), and upon which victims were slain in sacrifice to another, or others, than the true God: (ISd, K:) pl. of نُصُبٌ, as أَعْنَاقٌ is of عُنُقٌ; or of نُصْبق, as أَقْفَالٌ is of قُفْلٌ. (TA.) b4: نُصُبٌ, as occurring in the Kur, v. 4, signifies An idol; or a stone which the pagan Arabs set up, to sacrifice, or slay animals, before it, or by it, and which became red with the blood: (KT:) or pl. of نِصَابٌ, and signifying idols. (Jel.) b5: أَنْصَابُ الحَرَمِ The limits of the sacred territory [of Mekkeh]; (K;) i. e., signs, or marks, set up there, whereby it might be known. (TA.) See also نَصْبٌ.

نَصْبَةٌ A laying of a snare; meaning a plot, a stratagem, or an artifice. (TA.) نُصْبَةٌ: see نَصْبٌ.

نِصَابٌ The place of sun-set; مَغِيبُ الشَّمْسِ; (K;) the place to which it returns. (TA.) b2: See مَنْصِبٌ: and نُصُبٌ b3: نِصَابٌ The handle of a knife; (S, K;) in which the سِيلَان is set: (TA:) pl. نُصُبٌ. (K.) b4: نِصَابٌ, of property, (tropical:) The amount which renders it incumbent on the possessor to pay the alms, or tax, called الزَّكَاة: (S, K:) as two hundred dirhems, or five camels, (S,) [or twenty deenárs, or forty sheep or goats. (IbrD.)] So called as being the “ source ” whence the tax comes. (Msb.) نَصِيبٌ (S, K) and ↓ نِصْبٌ (K) (tropical:) A share, or portion, or lot, syn. حَظٌّ; (S, K;) of a thing; (S;) or of anything; (TA;) a set portion: (A:) [hence it appears to be in the sense of مَنْصُوبٌ what is set:] pl. of the former أَنْصِبَآءُ and أَنْصِبَةٌ (K, Msb) [the latter a pl. of pauc.], and نُصُبٌ. (Msb.) b2: نَصِيبٌ A tank, or cistern. (S, K.) b3: A snare, or fowler's net, set, or set up: (S, K:) thus in the sense of مَنْصُوبٌ. (TA.) See also مَنْصُوبَةٌ.

نَصِيبَةٌ, (S,) or نَصَائِبُ, (K,) which latter is the pl. of the former, (TA,) Stones which are set up around a tank, or cistern, and the interstices of which are filled up with kneaded clay. (S, K.) Dhu-r-Rummeh says, هَرَقْنَاهُ فِى بَادِى النَّشِيْئَةِ داثِرٍ

قَدِيمٍ بِعَهْدِ المَآءِ بُقْعٍ نَصَائِبُهْ [We poured it out into an old cistern of which the water was dried up and the bottom apparent, which for a long time had contained no water, the stones set up around which, having their interstices filled up mith kneaded clay, were black and white]. (S.) The pron. in هرقناه refers to a large bucket mentioned before. (TA.) b2: نَصَائِبُ is also explained by A'Obeyd as signifying Stones that are set up around a tank, or cistern, to mark the quantity of water with which the camels will be satisfied. (TA.) See نَصْبٌ.

هَمٌّ نَاصِبٌ i. q. مُنْصِبٌ, Grief, or anxiety, that fatigues, tires, or wearies: (K:) after the manner of a rel. n.: (Sb, K:) meaning ذُو نَصَبٍ; like تَامِرٌ and لَابِنٌ: or ناصب is here an act. part. n. used in the sense of the pass. part. n. [مَنْصُوبٌ] followed by فِيهِ; i. e. يُنْصَبُ فِيهِ, in which one is fatigued, tired, or wearied; like لَيْلٌ نَائِمٌ, meaning يُنَامُ فِيهِ, &c.: (S:) or the phrase نَصَبَهُ الهَمُّ, in the sense of أَتْعَبَهُ, has been heard; (K;) and ناصب is its act. part. n. (TA.) b2: نَصَبٌ نَاصِبٌ is also said to be a phrase of the same kind as مَوْتٌ مَائِتٌ, and شِعْرٌ شَاعِرٌ; [therefore meaning Severe fatigue, or difficulty, or trouble, and the like]. (TA.) b3: Also عَيْشٌ نَاصِبٌ, and ↓ ذُو مَنْصَبَةٍ, A fatiguing, laborious, or troublesome, life. (K.) b4: النَّوَاصِبُ, and ↓ النَّاصِبِيَّةُ, and أَهْلُ النَّصْبِ, Appellations of a sect who made it a matter of religious obligation to bear a violent hatred to 'Alee (K) the son of Aboo-Tálib: (TA:) [so called]

لِأَنَّهُمْ نَصَبُوا لَهُ because they acted with hostility, or enmity, towards him, (K,) and openly opposed him: they were a sect of the Khawárij, الخَوَارِجُ. (TA.) نَاصِبَةُ الشُّجَاعِ The eye of the serpent called شجاع, which it raises to look. (TA in art. شجع.) b2: By the expression كَنَاصِبَةِ الشُّجَاعِ in the following words of the poet, بَصَرٌ كَنَاصِبَةِ الشُّجَاعِ المُرْصِدِ is meant Like the eye of the brave man, which he raises (يَنْصُبُهَا) to look at, or see, something. (TA.) النَّاصِبِيَّةُ: see نَاصِبٌ.

أَنْصَبُ A goat having erect horns: (S, K:) fem. نَصْبَآءُ. (S.) b2: نَصْبَآءُ A she-camel having an elevated breast. (S, K.) b3: أَذُنٌ نَصْبَآءُ An ear that is erect, and approaches the other ear. (TA.) مَنْصِبٌ [so accord. to the copies of the S and K in my hands, and the Msb, which states it to be of the same measure as مَسْجِدٌ, and the TA: written by Golius and Freytag مَنْصَبٌ:] and ↓ نِصَابٌ (tropical:) Origin; source; (S, K, Msb;) of anything; (TA;) that to which a person or thing is referred, as his or its source; syn. مَرْجِعٌ; (K;) place where, or whence, a thing grows; (Msb;) place where a person or thing is set, or set up. (TA.) Pl. [of the former, مَنَاصِبُ, and] of the latter, نُصُبٌ and أَنْصِبَةٌ. (Az, Msb.) b2: لَهُ مَنْصِبُ صِدْقٍ He has an excellent origin. (Msb.) b3: هُوَ يرْجِع إِلَى منصبِ صِدْقٍ and ↓ نِصابِ صدق, He traces back his lineage to an excellent origin. (TA.) b4: مَنْصِبٌ (assumed tropical:) Rank, or quality, nobility, or eminence, and the like, absolutely, or derived from ancestry: syn. حَسَبٌ and شَرَفٌ: from the same word as signifying “ origin, source, &c. ” (Esh-Shiháb.) b5: لِفُلَانٍ مَنْصِبٌ To such a one pertains eminence of rank or station. (Msb.) b6: إِمْرَأَةٌ ذَاتُ منصبٍ A woman of rank or quality &c., (حَسَب,) and of beauty: or of beauty alone; because alone it exalts her. (Msb.) b7: مَنْصِبٌ, in the language of those of post-classical times, [and commonly pronounced, in the present day, مَنْصَبٌ,] (assumed tropical:) A post, an office, a function, or a magistracy; as though meaning the place in which a man is set, set up, or elevated; (Shifà el-Ghaleel;) or in which he is set, or set up, to see, or observe, [or supervise]: (MF:) pl. مَنَاصِبُ. (TA.) b8: [أَرْبَابُ المَنَاصِبِ (assumed tropical:) Functionaries; magistrates.] b9: See مِنْصَبٌ.

مِنْصَبٌ An iron thing (an iron trivet, TA,) upon which a cooking-pot is set up: (IAar, K:) as also ↓ مَنْصِبٌ. (MF.) مَنْصَبَةٌ Fatigue, labour, or trouble: [or a cause of fatigue, &c.]. (K.) See نَاصِبٌ.

مَنْصُوبَةٌ, as an epithet, applied to a شَبَكَة or حِبَالَة (A net or snare) set, or set up. and hence, as a subst., like دَابَّةٌ and عَجُوزٌ, (assumed tropical:) An artifice, a stratagem, a trick, a plot, a resource, or an expedient: or a stratagem in the game of chess. You say سَوَّى فُلَانٌ منصوبةً [Such a one framed a stratagem, or plot]. (Z.) مُنَصَّبٌ A horse of which the prevailing characteristic of his whole make is the erect position of his bones, so that he stands erect without needing to bend [his joints]. (TA.) b2: صَفِيحٌ مُنَصَّبٌ [Broad and thin stones] set up, one upon another. (S.) b3: ثَغْرٌ مُنَصَّبٌ Teeth, or fore teeth, of even growth; (K;) as though set up and made even. (TA.) [See an ex. in a verse cited voce شَنَبٌ.]

b4: ثَرًى مُنَصَّبٌ, accord. to the K, i. q. مُجَعَّدٌ; but this is a mistake; and the correct word is جَعْدٌ, Soft moist earth; as in other books. (TA.) مُنْتَصِبٌ (tropical:) Dust rising high. (S.) b2: (assumed tropical:) Hair full grown, and standing out. (TA, art. سبكر.) b3: أَــسْنَانٌ مُنْتَصِبَةٌ إِلَى خَارِجٍ (S in art. دفق) or الى قُدَّامٍ (JK in that art.) Teeth standing out or forwards].

يَنْصُوبٌ: see نَصْبٌ.

أَنَاصِيبُ: see نَصْبٌ.

تَنَاصِيبُ: see نَصْبٌ.
نصب1 نَصَتَ, aor. ـِ (L, K,) inf. n. نَصْتٌ; (L;) and ↓ انصت, inf. n. إِنْصَاتٌ, (S, L, K) which latter is the more approved; (L;) and ↓ انتصت; (L, K;) He was silent: (L, K:) or he was silent and listened: (S:) or he was silent to listen: (L:) or he was silent as one listening: (Er-Rághib:) or he listened: (Msb:) or انتصب signifies he stood, or paused, listening. (Msb.) b2: ↓ أَنْصَتَهُ, and انصت لَهُ, (S, K,) and إِلَيْهِ, (Z,) and نَصَتَ لَهُ, (L,) He was silent, and listened to his speech. (S, K, &c.) 4 انصتهُ He made him silent; silenced him. (Sh, K.) b2: انصتهُ عَنِّى He made him to be silent, [and to abstain] from [speaking of, or to,] me. (As.) b3: See 1.

A2: انصت لِلَّهْوِ He inclined to play, or sport. (IAar, K.) 8 إِنْتَصَبَ see 1.10 استنصتةُ He asked him, or desired him, to be silent: (K:) or, to be silent and to listen to him. (TA.) نُصْتَةٌ Silence: [or silence and listening, &c.] (K.)

نقب

1 نَقَبَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. نَقْبٌ, He perforated, pierced, bored, or made a hole through, or in, or into, anything: like ثَقَبَ. (TA.) He made a hole through a wall. (S.) b2: نَقَبَ سُرَّةَ الدَّابَّةِ, aor. ـُ He (a farrier) perforated the navel of the beast in order that a yellow fluid might issue forth. (S.) See مَنْقَبٌ. b3: نَقَبَ العَيْنَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. نَقْبٌ, He performed, upon the eye, what is called القَدْحُ in the language of the physicians; i. e., a remedial operation for the black fluid that arises in the eye: from the phrase next following: (IAth:) [but this is not a good explanation: the meaning is he performed upon the eye the operation of couching, for the cataract: so in many Arabic works, ancient and modern: (IbrD:) the couching-needle is called مِقْدَحٌ, and إِبْرَةُ القَدْحِ, in the present day]. b4: نَقَبَ حَافِرَ الدَّابَّةِ He (a farrier) pierced a hole in the hoof of the beast, in order to extract what had entered into it. (IAth.) b5: نَقَبَتْهُ نَكْبَةٌ, (aor.

نَقُبَ, inf. n. نَقْبٌ, TA,) A misfortune, an evil accident, or a calamity befell him, (K,) and overcame him, or afflicted him; like نَكَبَتْهُ. (TA.) [In the CK, for أَصَابَتْهُ, is put اثابته.] b6: نَقَبَ فِى الأَرْضِ, aor. ـُ and ↓ انقب and ↓ نَقّب, He went, or went away, through the land, or country: (K:) [in the CK and some MS. copies of the K, we afterwards find نَقِبَ فِى البِلَادِ with kesr to the ق, explained as signifying he proceeded, or journeyed, through the lands:] ↓ انقب he proceeded, or journeyed, through the country: (IAar:) نقّبوا فِى البِلَادِ [Kur, l. 35,] they proceeded, or journeyed, through the lands, seeking for a place of refuge: (S:) or they traversed the lands, and journeyed through them, much, &c.: (Fr.:) or they went about and about, and searched, &c. (Zj.) فِى الآفَاقِ ↓ نَقَّبْتُ, in a verse of Imra-el-Keys, I journeyed through the tracts of the earth, and came and went. (TA.) b7: نَقِبَ البَعِيرُ, aor. ـَ or نَقِبَ حُفُّ البعيرِ, (L, TA,) and ↓ انقب, (L,) The camel walked barefooted, syn. حَفِىَ, (L, K,) until his feet became worn in holes: (TA:) or نَقِبَ البعير, (S, K,) and ↓ انقب, (K,) the camel's feet became thin, [or were worn thin; which is also a signification of حَفِىَ]. (S, K.) b8: نَقِبَتْ أَقْدَامُنَا Our feet became thin in the skin, and blistered, by reason of walking. (L.) b9: نَقَبَ الخُفَّ, aor. ـُ He patched the boot; repaired it by patching. (K.) Also, He made the boot thin: he made [or wore] holes in it. (Msb.) b10: نَقِبَ الخُفُّ, aor. ـَ (inf. n. نَقَبٌ, TA,) The boot became lacerated, or worn through, in holes. (S, K, TA.) [And in like manner The sole of the foot of a camel or of a man: see below: and see an ex. voce أَظَلُّ.] b11: نَقَبَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. نَقْبٌ, He (a horse) put his feet together in his running (فِى حُضْرِهِ, [ for which Golius and Freytag appear to have read فى خَصْرِهِ,] K,) not spreading his fore feet, his running being [a kind of] leaping. (TA.) A2: نَقَبَ عَنِ الأَخْبْارِ, aor. ـُ He scrutinized, investigated, searched into, examined into, or inquired into, the news; (K;) and, in like manner, anything else: (MF:) [as also ↓ نقّب: see the phrase نقّبوا فى البلاد, explained above:] or he told, announced, or related, the news. (K.) b2: إِنِّى لَمْ أُؤْمَرْ أَنْ أَنْقُبَ عَنْ قُلُوبِ النَّاسِ Verily I have not been commanded to scrutinize and reveal what is in the hearts of men. (TA, from a trad.) b3: نَقَبَ عَلَى قَوْمِهِ, aor. ـُ inf. n. نِقَابَةٌ, He acted as the نَقِيب over his people; was their نقيب: (S, K:) but of a man who was not نقيب, and has become so, you say نَقُبَ, with damm, aor. ـُ inf. n. نَقَابَةٌ, with fet-h, He became نقيب; (Fr., S, K;) as also نَقِبَ, aor. ـَ (IKtt, K:) or ـب with kesr is a subst.; and with fet-h, an inf. n.; (S, K;) like وِلَايَةٌ and وَلَايَةٌ: so says Sb. (S.) A3: نَقَبَ الثَّوْبَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. نَقْبٌ, He made the piece of cloth into a نُقْبَة. (S.) 2 نَقَّبَ see 1.3 نَاقَبْتُهُ, inf. n. نِقَابٌ; as also لَقِيتُهُ; I met him face to face: or without appointment, (K,) and unintentionally: (TA:) or unexpectedly. (S.) نقابًا is in the accus. case as an inf. n.; or as a word descriptive of state. (TA.) b2: وَرَدْتُ المَاءَ نِقَابًا, (S,) or لَقِيتُ الماء

نقابا, (K,) I came upon the water unexpectedly, without seeking for it. (S, K.) 4 أَنْقَبَ see 1. b2: انقب His camel's feet became thin; [or were worn thin;] (S, K;) or were worn in holes by walking. (TA.) A2: He became a door-keeper, or chamberlain; Arab.

حَاجِب: (K:) or he became a نَقِيب. (L, K, &c.) 5 تَنَقَّبَ see 8.8 انتقبت (S, K, Msb) and ↓ تنقّبت (Msb) She (a woman) veiled her face with a نِقَاب (S, K, Msb.) b2: بعمَامَته ↓ تنقب: see تختّم.

نَقْبٌ (S, K) and ↓ نُقْبَةٌ (S) A hole, perforation, or bore, (K,) in, or through, a wall, (S,) or anything whatever: (TA:) or a large hole, perforation, or bore, passing through a thing; such as is small being termed ثَقْبٌ, with ث: (Mgh, in art. ثقب:) pl. of the former نُقُوبٌ (Msb) and أَنْقَابٌ and نِقَابٌ. (TA, and some copies of the K.) b2: نَقْبٌ (K) and ↓ نَاقِبَةٌ (S) An ulcer that arises in the side, (S, ISd, K,) attacking the inside of the body, (S, ISd,) and having its head inwards; (ISd;) [as also ↓ نَقَّابَةٌ, for] نَقَّابَاتٌ signifies ulcers that come forth in the side and penetrate into the inside. (TA voce ذُبَالٌ.) See نُقْبٌ. b3: نَقْبٌ (S, K) and ↓ نُقْبٌ (K) and ↓ مَنْقَبٌ and ↓ مَنْقَبَةٌ (S, K) A road (or narrow road, TA,) in a mountain: (ISk, S, K:) a road between two mountains: (IAth:) pl. (of the first and second, TA,) أَنْقَابٌ (a pl. of pauc., TA,) and نِقَابٌ; (K;) and of the third and fourth, مَنَاقِبُ. (TA.) See also مَنْقَبَةٌ.

نُقْبٌ (S, K,) and ↓ نَقْبٌ (K: but the former is the more common: TA) and ↓ نُقَبٌ (K) [the first is a coll. gen. n., of which the n. un. is نُقْبَةٌ [q. v.], of which it is called in the S the pl.: but نُقَبٌ is the pl. of نُقْبَةٌ:] Scab, [or scabs,] (K,) absolutely: (TA:) or scattered scabs (S, K,) when they first appear: (S:) النُّقْبَةُ is the first that appears of the scab; and is so called because the scabs perforate the skin: you say, of a camel, بِهِ نُقْبَةٌ: (As:) the first that appears of the scab, in a patch like the palm of the hand, in the side of a camel, or on his haunch, or his lip: then it spreads over him until it covers him entirely. (ISh.) Mohammad, denying that any disease was transmitted from one thing to another, and being asked how it was that a نُقْبَة spread in camels, asked what transmitted the disease to the first camel. (TA.) b2: فُلَانٌ يَضَعُ الهِنَآءَ مَوَاضِعَ النُّقْبِ (tropical:) [Such a one puts the tar upon the places of the scabs]: said of one who is clever, or skilful, and who does or says what is right. (A.) [See also قَالَبٌ]

نَقِبٌ, and, as a fem. epithet, ↓ نَقْبَاءُ, A camel whose feet have become worn in holes, [or worn thin,] by walking. (TA.) See the verb. b2: The former may also signify Having the scab, or what first appears thereof. (TA.) See نُقْبٌ.

نُقَبٌ: see نُقْبٌ.

نُقْبَةٌ A mark, trace, or vestige: ex. عَلَيْه نُقْبَةٌ Upon him, or it, is a mark, &c. (T.) b2: See نَقْبٌ. b3: نُقْبَةٌ (assumed tropical:) Rust, (K.) upon a sword or the head of an arrow or a spear: (M:) or نَقب [i. e.

↓ نُقْبٌ, q. v., a coll. gen. n., of which نُقْبَةٌ is the n. un.; or نُقَبٌ, pl. of نُقْبَةٌ;] signifies (tropical:) traces of rust upon a sword or an arrow head or a spear-head, likened to the first appearances of the scab. (A.) A2: نُقْبَةٌ The face: (S, K:) or the parts surrounding the face. (L:) pl. نُقَبٌ. (TA.) b2: نُقْبَةٌ A garment resembling an إِزار, having a sewed waistband or string, (حُجْزَةٌ مَخِيطَةٌ: so in the S, M, L: whence it appears that the reading in the K, حجزة مُطيفَةٌ, is erroneous: TA: [F having, it seems, found مُحِيطَةٌ written in the place of مُحِيطَةٌ:]) without a نَيْفَق which is the part turned down at the top, and sewed, through which the waistband passes], (S, K,) tied as trousers, or drawers, are tied: (S:) or a pair of trousers, or drawers, having a waistband, but without a part turned down at the top, and sewed, for the waistband to pass through: if it have this, (i. e, a. نيفق,) it is called سَراوِيلُ: (TA;) or a piece of rag of which the upper part is made like drawers, or trousers: (L;) or a pair of drawers, or trousers, without legs. (M, voce إِنْبٌ, TA,) A3: نُقْبَةٌ The state, or condition; quality, mode, or manner; state with regard to apparel &c.; external form, figure, feature, or appearance; of any thing: syn. هَيْئَةٌ. (T.) A4: نُقْبَةٌ Colour. (S, K.) b2: فَرَسٌ حَسَنُ النَّقْبَةِ A horse of beautiful colour. (TA.) b3: See also نَقِيبَةٌ.

نِقْبَةٌ A mode of veiling the face with the نِقَاب: (K:) pl. نِقَبٌ. (TA.) b2: إِنَّهَا لَحَسَنَةُ النِّقْبَةِ (S) Verily she has a comely mode of veiling her face with the نقاب. (TA.) نِقَابٌ [A woman's face-veil;] (S, K;) a veil that is upon [or covers] the soft, or pliable, part of the nose; (Az;) [not extending higher:] a woman's veil that extends as high as the circuit of the eye: (Msb:) it is of different modes: Fr says, When a woman lowers her نقاب to her eye, it [the action] is termed وَصْوَصَةٌ; and when she lowers it further, to [the lower part of] the circuit of the eye, it [the veil] is called نقاب; and if it is on the extremity of the nose, it is [properly] called لِفَامٌ: (T:) the نقاب, with the Arabs, is that [kind of veil] from out of which appears the circuit of the eye: and the meaning of the saying in a trad. النِّقَابُ مُحْدَثٌ is, that women's shewing the circuits of the eyes is an innovation; not that they used not to veil their faces: the [kind of]

نقاب which they used reached close to the eye, and they showed one eye while the other was concealed; whereas the [kind of] نقاب, which only shows both the eyes [without their circuits] was called by them وَصْوَصَةٌ [a mistake for وَصْوَاصٌ] and تُرْقُعٌ: [in the original, والنقاب لا يبدومنه الّا العينان وكان اسمه الخ: but the و before كان is erroneously introduced, and perverts the sense, which is otherwise plain, and agreeable with what is said before:] then they innovated the [veil] properly called] نقاب: (A'Obeyd:) pl. نَقُبٌ. (Msb.) A2: نِقَابٌ and ↓ مِنَقَبٌ A road through a rugged tract of ground: (K:) the former word used both as a sing and a pl. (TA.) A3: نِقَابٌ (a strange form of epithet, MF,) (tropical:) A man of great knowledge; very knowing: (S, K:) or possessing a knowledge of things, or affairs: or, as also ↓ مِنعقَبٌ, mentioned by I Ath and Z, a man possessing a knowledge of things, who scrutinizes or investigates them much; who is intelligent, and enters deeply into things. (TA.) A4: نقَابٌ The bello, Hence the proverb, فَرْخَانِ فِى نِقَابٍ [Two young birds in one belly]: applied to two things that resemble one another, (K.) In like manner one says كَانَا فِى نقاب وَاحد [They were in one belly]; meaning they were like each other, (A.) نَقِيبٌ i. q. مَنْقُوبٌ, A thing perforated, pierced, bored. or having a hole made through, or in. or into it. (TA.) b2: نَقِيبٌ A musical reed, or pipe. (K.) b3: The tongue of a pair of scales, or balance (K.) b4: A dog having the upper part of his mindpipe (غَلْصَمَتُهُ: so in the S, K or having his windpipe, حَنْجَرَتُهُ: so in the A) perforated, (S, K,) in order that his cry may be weak: a base man performs this operation on his dog, in order that guests may not hear its cry. (S: and the like is said in the L.) A2: نَقِيبُ قُوْمٍ The intendant, superintendent, overseer, or inspector, of a people; he who takes notice, or cognisance, of their actions, and is responsible for them; i. q. عَرِيفُهُمْ and شَاهِدُهُمْ and ضَمِيُهُمْ: (S, K:) like أَمِينٌ and كَفِيلٌ: (Zj:) their head, or chief: (TA:) like عَرِيفٌ [q. v.]; i. e., one who is set over a people, and investigates their affairs: (L:) or, as some say, the greatest, or supreme, chief of a people: so called [from نَقَبَ “ he scrutinized, or investigated,”] because he is acquainted with the secret affairs of the people, and knows their virtues, or generous actions, and is the way by which one obtains knowledge of their affairs: (TA:) pl. نُقَبَاءُ. (S.) نِقَابَةٌ The office of نَقِيب. (Sb: see 1.) نَقِيبَةٌ Mind: syn. نَفْسٌ. (S, K,) You say فُلَانٌ مَيْمُونُ النقيبةِ Such a one is of a fortunate mind, (A'Obeyd, S,) when the person referred to is fortunate in his affairs, succeeding in what he seeks after, or strives to accomplish: (ISk, S:) or when he is fortunate in his counsel, or advice: (Th, S:) or the phrase signifies such a one is fortunate in his actions, and in gaining what he seeks. (TA.) See also what follows. نَقِيبَةٌ is also said, in the K, to signify the same as عَقْلٌ (understanding, intellect, or intelligence); but, says SM, I have not found this in any other lexicon: only I have found the word explained in the L as signifying يُمْنُ الفِعْلِ (good fortune attending, or resulting from, an action): so probably عَقْلٌ is a mistake for فِعْلٌ. (TA.) b2: Also, Counsel, or advice. (K.) See above. b3: Also, Penetration of judgment; acuteness; sagacity. (Ibn-Buzurj, K.) b4: Also, Nature; or natural, or native, disposition, temper, or other quality: (K:) i. q. نَقِيمَةٌ and عَرِيكَةٌ and طَبِيعَةٌ. (T, art. عرك.) Agreeably with this explanation, the phrase above mentioned is rendered in the T, in art. عرك, Such a one is of a fortunate nature, or natural disposition: (TA:) or it signifies, in this phrase, as also نقيمة, i. q. لَوْنٌ, Colour, complexion, species, &c. (IAar.) Also هُوَ حَسَنُ النَّقِيبَةِ He is of a good nature, or natural disposition: and in like manner, جَمِيلَةٍ ↓ فُلَانٌ فِى مَنَاقِبَ Such a one is a person of good dispositions, or natural qualities. (L.) A2: نَقِيبَةٌ A she-camel having a large udder: (ISd, K:) having her udder bound up with a cloth or the like, on account of its greatness and excellence: but AM says this is a corruption, and that the correct word is ثقيبة, with ث, meaning a she-camel “ abounding with milk. ” (TA.) نَقَّابَةٌ: see نَقْبٌ.

نَاقِب and نَاقِبَةٌ [the former omitted in some copies of the K] A disease that befalls a man in consequence of long sluggishness, or indolence: (K:) or, as some say, the ulcer that arises in the side. (TA.) See نَقْبٌ.

أَنْقَابٌ, a pl. without a sing., The ears: (M, K,) or, accord. to some, its sing. is نُقْبٌ. (TA.) El-Katámee says, كَانَتْ خُدُودُ هِجَانِهِنَّ مُمَالَةً

أَنْقَابُهُنَّ إِلَى حُدَآءِ السُّوَّقِ [The cheeks of their white camels were with their ears inclined to the singing of the drivers]. But

أَنَقًا بِهِنَّ, “by reason of their pleasure,” is also read, for أَنْقَابُهُنَّ: (TA:) [so that the meaning is The cheeks of their white camels were inclined, by reason of their pleasure. to the singing of the drivers].

مَنْقَبٌ The navel: or [a place] before it: (K:) where the farrier makes a perforation in order that a yellow fluid may issue forth: (S:) so in a horse. (TA.) b2: See نَقْبٌ.

مِنْقَبٌ An iron instrument with which a farrier perforates the navel of a beast of carriage (S, K) in order that a yellow fluid may issue forth. (S.) See مَنْقَبٌ, and نِقَابٌ.

مَنْقَبَةٌ: see نَقْبٌ. b2: A narrow way between two houses, (L, K,) along which one cannot pass. (L.) It is said in a trad., that one does not possess the right of pre-emption (الشُّفْعَة) with respect to a منقبة; and this word is explained as signifying a wall: syn. حَائِطٌ: [and so in the K:] or a way between two houses, as though it were perforated from one to the other: or a road, or way, over an elevated piece of ground. (L.) A2: مَنْقَبَةٌ A virtue; an excellence; contr. of مَثْلَبَةٌ: (S:) a cause of glorying: (K:) generosity of action, or conduct: (L:) a [good disposition, or natural quality: [see نَقِيبَةٌ:] (TA:) a memorable, or generous action, and [good] internal quality: (A:) pl. مَنَاقِبُ: (TA:) رجُلٌ ذُو مَنَاقِبَ A man of memorable, or generous, actions, and [good] internal qualities. (A.)