Arabic edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Persian [script needed] (nʾmk' /⁠nāmag⁠/), which gave the productive root ن م ق (n-m-q). Compare Persian نامه (nâme).

Noun edit

نَمْق (namqm (obsolete)

  1. verbal noun of نَمَقَ (namaqa) (form I)
  2. book

Declension edit

Verb edit

نَمَقَ (namaqa) I, non-past يَنْمُقُ‎ (yanmuqu) (obsolete)

  1. to write, to compose (a book)

Conjugation edit

Verb edit

نَمَّقَ (nammaqa) II, non-past يُنَمِّقُ‎ (yunammiqu)

  1. to embellish, to stylize, to embroider, to refine, to adorn

Conjugation edit

References edit

  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نمق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 339
  • ابن منظور. «نمق»، لسان العرب.
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “نمق”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1317