See also: جنت, جنب, حنت, and خنت

Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Root
خ ن ب (ḵ-n-b)

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈχanaba], [ˈχaniba]

Verb edit

خَنِبَ (ḵaniba) I, non-past يَخْنَبُ‎ (yaḵnabu)

  1. to suffer from a rheum
  2. to be weak, to be limp
  3. to perish
Conjugation edit
References edit

Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “خنب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[1], London: W.H. Allen

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

خَنَب (ḵanabm

  1. verbal noun of خَنِبَ (ḵaniba) (form I)
  2. weakness of the joints
References edit

Libyan Arabic edit

Verb edit

خنب (xnab)

  1. to steal