ع ن ب

Arabic

Root

ع ن ب • (ʕ-n-b)

1. lively shoot
2. related to berry-shapes

Derived terms

• Form I: عَنَبَ (ʕanaba, “to drink wine”)
  • Active participle: عَانِب (ʕānib)
• Form II: عَنَّبَ (ʕannaba, “to produce raisins”)
  • Verbal noun: تَعْنِيب (taʕnīb)
  • Active participle: مُعَنِّب (muʕannib)

• عِنَب (ʕinab, “grape”)
• عُنَّاب (ʕunnāb, “jujube”)
• عُنَاب (ʕunāb) and أَعْنَب (ʔaʕnab, “large in the nose; sharp, high, isolated (of a mountain)”)
• عَنَّاب (ʕannāb, “grape vendor”)
• عُنْبُب (ʕunbub, “foremost portion of a torrent, abundance of water”) (compare also ع ب ب (ʕ-b-b))
• عَنَبَان (ʕanabān, “brisk, lively, sprightly”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ع ن ب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 178–179
• Freytag, Georg (1835) “ع ن ب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 227
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ع ن ب”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 378–379
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ع ن ب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2167–2168