ن ق ب

Arabic

Root

ن ق ب • (n-q-b)

1. related to penetration

Derived terms

• Form I: نَقَبَ‎ (naqaba, “to dig, to grave, to bore into”)
  • Verbal noun: نَقْب‎ (naqb)
  • Active participle: نَاقِب‎ (nāqib)
  • Passive participle: مَنْقُوب‎ (manqūb)
• Form I: نَقِبَ‎ (naqiba, “to teem in holes, to be gappy”)
  • Verbal noun: نَقَب‎ (naqab)
  • Active participle: نَاقِب‎ (nāqib)
  • Passive participle: مَنْقُوب‎ (manqūb)
• Form I: نَقُبَ‎ (naquba, “to become a leader”)
  • Verbal noun: نَقَابَة‎ (naqāba)
  • Active participle: نَاقِب‎ (nāqib)
• Form II: نَقَّبَ‎ (naqqaba, “to dig up, to rummage thoroughly”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنْقِيب‎ (tanqīb)
  • Active participle: مُنَقِّب‎ (munaqqib)
  • Passive participle: مُنَقَّب‎ (munaqqab)
• Form III: نَاقَبَ‎ (nāqaba, “to come unexpected upon; to vie with in virtues”)
  • Verbal noun: مُنَاقَبَة‎ (munāqaba), نِقَاب‎ (niqāb)
  • Active participle: مُنَاقِب‎ (munāqib)
  • Passive participle: مُنَاقَب‎ (munāqab)
• Form V: تَنَقَّبَ‎ (tanaqqaba, “to investigate thoroughly, to scour; to veil oneself; to be gappy, to be full of holes”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنَقُّب‎ (tanaqqub)
  • Active participle: مُتَنَقِّب‎ (mutanaqqib)
  • Passive participle: مُتَنَقَّب‎ (mutanaqqab)
• Form VIII: اِنْتَقَبَ‎ (intaqaba, “to veil oneself”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْتِقَاب‎ (intiqāb)
  • Active participle: مُنْتَقِب‎ (muntaqib)

• نِقَاب‎ (niqāb, “veil”)
• نُقْبَة‎ (nuqba, “kilt”)
• نُقْبَة‎ (nuqba) or نَقْبَة‎ (naqba, “breach, aperture”)
• نِقْبَة‎ (niqba, “mode of covering the face”)
• نِقَابَة‎ (niqāba, “association”)
• مَنْقِب‎ (manqib) and مَنْقَب‎ (manqab) and مَنْقَبَة‎ (manqaba, “pass, mountain path, col; station where one stops”)
• مِنْقَب‎ (minqab) and مِنْقَبَة‎ (minqaba, “trephine, or a similar instrument for making holes”)
• مَنْقَبَة‎ (manqaba, “virtue”)
• نَاقِبَة‎ (nāqiba, “a kind of ulcerous disease”)
• نَقَّاب‎ (naqqāb, “anything that makes holes much; punch; miner”)
• نَقِيب‎ (naqīb, “leader, captain”)
• نَقِيبَة‎ (naqība, “mind, spirit, natural disposition”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ن ق ب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 707–708
• Freytag, Georg (1837), “ن ق ب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 318–319
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ن ق 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 (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1318–1320
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “ن ق ب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2833–2855
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ن ق ب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1302–1303