ن ب ء

Arabic

Root

ن ب ء • (n-b-ʔ)

1. news, information
2. prophecy

Derived terms

• Form I: نَبَأَ (nabaʔa, “to bark; to be exalted, to be elevated; to assault, to overwhelm; to revert, to turn away”)
  • Verbal noun: نَبْء (nabʔ), نُبُوء (nubūʔ)
  • Active participle: نَابِئ (nābiʔ)
  • Passive participle: مَنْبُوء (manbūʔ)
• Form II: نَبَّأَ (nabbaʔa)
  • Verbal noun: تَنْبِيء (tanbīʔ), تَنْبِئَة (tanbiʔa)
  • Active participle: مُنَبِّئ (munabbiʔ)
  • Passive participle: مُنَبَّأ (munabbaʔ)
• Form III: نَابَأَ (nābaʔa)
  • Verbal noun: مُنَابَأَة (munābaʔa)
  • Active participle: مُنَابِئ (munābiʔ)
  • Passive participle: مُنَابَأ (munābaʔ)
• Form IV: أَنْبَأَ (ʔanbaʔa)
  • Verbal noun: إِنْبَاء (ʔinbāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُنْبِئ (munbiʔ)
  • Passive participle: مُنْبَأ (munbaʔ)
• Form V: تَنَبَّأَ (tanabbaʔa)
  • Verbal noun: تَنَبُّؤ (tanabbuʔ)
  • Active participle: مُتَنَبِّئ (mutanabbiʔ)
  • Passive participle: مُتَنَبَّأ (mutanabbaʔ)
• Form X: اِسْتَنْبَأَ (istanbaʔa)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِنْبَاء (istinbāʔ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَنْبِئ (mustanbiʔ)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَنْبَأ (mustanbaʔ)

• نَبَأ (nabaʔ)
• نَبْأَة (nabʔa)
• نُبُوءَة (nubūʔa) / نُبُوَّة (nubuwwa)
• نَبِيّ (nabiyy)/ نَبِيء (nabīʔ)

References

• Baalbaki, Rohi (1995) “ن ب ء”, in Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary, 7th edition, Beirut: Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, →ISBN
• Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “ن ب ء”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1237
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ن ب ء”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 633
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن ب ء”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 228
• Golius, Jacob (1653) “ن ب ء”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum, contextum ex probatioribus orientis lexicographis‎^[3] (in Latin), Leiden: Bonaventura & Abraham Elzevir, column 2287
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ن ب ء”, 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^[4] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1178–1179
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ن ب ء”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[5], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2752–2753
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ن ب ء”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[6], London: W.H. Allen, page 1095
• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “ن ب ء”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache‎^[7] (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 974
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ن ب ء”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1100
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “ن ب ء”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 890–891