ن ب ش

Arabic

Root

ن ب ش • (n-b-š)

1. related to digging up
2. Alternative form of ن ض ب (n ḍ b)

Derived terms

• Form I: نَبَشَ (nabaša, “to disinter, to dig up, to claw up, to unearth”)
  • Verbal noun: نَبْش (nabš)
  • Active participle: نَابِش (nābiš)
  • Passive participle: مَنْبُوش (manbūš)
• Form II: نَبَّشَ (nabbaša, “to scavenge, to rifle”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنْبِيش (tanbīš)
  • Active participle: مُنَبِّش (munabbiš)
  • Passive participle: مُنَبَّش (munabbaš)
• Form V: تَنَبَّشَ (tanabbaša, “to endeavour to unearth”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنَبُّش (tanabbuš)
  • Active participle: مُتَنَبِّش (mutanabbiš)
  • Passive participle: مُتَنَبَّش (mutanabbaš)
• Form VIII: اِنْتَبَشَ (intabaša, “to unearth”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْتِبَاش (intibāš)
  • Active participle: مُنْتَبِش (muntabiš)
  • Passive participle: مُنْتَبَش (muntabaš)

• نَبِيشَة (nabīša, “earth dug out”)
• نَبَّاش (nabbāš, “gravedigger”)
• أُنْبُوش (ʔunbūš, “the lower part of a plant that is drawn out”)
• نِبَاشَة (nibāša, “gravedigger trade”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ن ب ش”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 636
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن ب ش”, 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 231b
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ن ب ش”, 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, page 1184
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ن ب ش”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2758
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ن ب ش”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1102