See also: نفت

Arabic edit

Root
ن ق ب (n-q-b)

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نَقَبَ (naqaba) I, non-past يَنْقُبُ‎ (yanqubu)

  1. to dig, to grave, to bore into (literally, or as to find, or to rummage a territory, etc.)

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نَقِبَ (naqiba) I, non-past يَنْقَبُ‎ (yanqabu)

  1. to teem in holes, to be gappy

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نَقُبَ (naquba) I, non-past يَنْقُبُ‎ (yanqubu)

  1. to become a leader (نَقِيب (naqīb))

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نَقَّبَ (naqqaba) II, non-past يُنَقِّبُ‎ (yunaqqibu)

  1. to dig up, to rummage thoroughly, to drill
    Synonym: نَبَّثَ (nabbaṯa)

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نَقْب (naqbm (plural أَنْقَاب (ʔanqāb) or نِقَاب (niqāb))

  1. verbal noun of نَقَبَ (naqaba) (form I)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:96-97:
      آتُونِي زُبَرَ الْحَدِيدِ حَتَّىٰ إِذَا سَاوَىٰ بَيْنَ الصَّدَفَيْنِ قَالَ ٱنْفُخُوا حَتَّىٰ إِذَا جَعَلَهُ نَارًا قَالَ آتُونِي أُفْرِغْ عَلَيْهِ قِطْرًا ۝ فَمَا ٱسْطَاعُوا أَن يَظْهَرُوهُ وَمَا ٱسْتَطَاعُوا لَهُ نَقْبًا
      ʾātū-nī zubara l-ḥadīdi ḥattā ʾiḏā sāwā bayna ṣ-ṣadafayni qāla nfuḵū ḥattā ʾiḏā jaʿala-hū nāran qāla ʾātū-nī ʾufriḡ ʿalay-hi qiṭran. fa-mā sṭāʿū ʾan yaẓharū-hu wa-mā staṭāʿū la-hū naqban
      “Give me bits of iron.” Until he dumped equally high between the two mountain cuttings. He said: “Blow.” Till he made fire. He said: “Bring me molten copper I pour upon it.“ ۝ And they could neither scale nor penetrate it.
  2. passage, breach, tunnel
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 54:153:
      لَيْسَ مِنْ بَلَدٍ إِلَّا سَيَطَؤُهُ الدَّجَّالُ إِلَّا مَكَّةَ وَالْمَدِينَةَ وَلَيْسَ نَقْبٌ مِنْ أَنْقَابِهَا إِلَّا عَلَيْهِ الْمَلَائِكَةُ صَافِّينَ تَحْرُسُهَا
      laysa min baladin ʾillā sayaṭaʾu-hū d-dajjālu ʾillā makkata wa-al-madīnata wa-laysa naqbun min ʾanqābi-hā ʾillā ʿalay-hi l-malāʾikatu ṣāffīna taḥrusu-hā
      There is no land that the False Messiah will not walk on, save for Mecca and Medina. There is no pathway among its pathways that does not have angels in array who watch over it.

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نَقَب (naqabm

  1. verbal noun of نَقِبَ (naqiba) (form I)

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نُقُب (nuqubpl

  1. plural of نِقَاب (niqāb, veil)

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Etymology edit

From Arabic نَقْب (naqb).

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نقب (naqb)

  1. (archaic) tunnel
    • 12th Century, Sa'di Shirazi, "Golestan":
    • شیرمردان را به حکم ضرورت در نقب‌ها گرفته‌اند و کعب‌ها سفته.

References edit

Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “نقب”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press