Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

نَبَّ, aor. ـِ {يَنْبِبُ}, inf. n. نَبِيبٌ (Ṣ, Ḳ) and نَبٌّ and نُبَابٌ; andنَبْنَبَ↓; He (a goat) uttered a sound, or cry, [or rattled,] and was excited by desire of the female: (Ṣ:) or uttered a sound, or cry, [or rattled,] when excited by desire of the female, (Ḳ,) or at rutting-time. (TA.) لَا تَنِبُّوا عِنْدِى نَبِيبَ التُّيُوسِ † Do not cry out [in my presence like as he-goats rattle at rutting-time]. Said by ʼOmar to some persons who had come to make a complaint to him. (TA.)

[Hence,] نَبَّ † He desired sexual intercourse. (TA.)

نَبَّ عَتُودُهُ † He was proud, or behaved proudly, and magnified himself. (Ḳ.)

نبّب, inf. n. تَنْبِيبٌ, It (a plant) produced a knotted stem. (Ḳ.)

إِنِّى أَرَى الشَّرَّ نَبَّبَ † [Verily I see evil, or the evil, to have grown, like a plant producing knotted stems]. (TA.)

انببهُ طُولُ العُزْبَةِ † [Length of celibacy made him to be desirous of sexual intercourse]. (TA.)

انبّ, inf. n. إِنْبَابٌ, if not a mistake for انبت, inf. n. انبات, meaning “he became pubescent,” probably signifies He was excited, and uttered libidinous sounds, with the desire of sexual intercourse. (TA.) See R. Q. 1.

تنبّب It (water) was made to flow; or was set a flowing. (Ḳ.)

see 1.

نَبْنَبَ ‡ He (a man, TA) talked nonsense, (and uttered libidinous sounds, TA,) in concubitu: (Ḳ:) implying his acting like a he-goat at rutting-time. (TA.)

He prolonged his work, to do it well. (Ḳ.)

نَبَّةٌ A disagreeable, or abominable, smell. (Ḳ.) Probably a mistake for بَنَّةٌ; and therefore not mentioned by the leading lexicographers. (TA.)

نُبِّىٌّ A table (مَائِدَة) made of palm-leaves. (Ḳ, voce بَتِّىٌ, q. v.)

أَنْبُبٌ or أُنْبُبٌ: see أُنْبُوبٌ and أُنْبُوبَةٌ.

أُنْبُوبٌ see أُنبُوبَةٌ.

أُنْبُوبُ قَرْنٍ † That part of a horn that is above the knotty portion, to the extremity: [i. e., the smooth part]. (TA:)

أُنْبُوبٌ ‡ The spout, or tube, of a jug. (TA.)

† A pipe of a tank, or cistern, through which the water flows: either from تَنَبَّبَ, or from أُنْبُوبٌ as signifying “an internodal portion” of a reed, or cane. (TA.)

أَنَابِيبُ الرِّئَةِ ‡ The [bronchi, or] air-passages of the lungs. (Ḳ.) أَنْبُبٌ↓ or أُنْبُبٌ is said to signify the same, in an instance mentioned by IAạr, in which a poet speaks of the substance resembling lights which a camel in heat protrudes from his mouth, and which is called غِيلَة, as coming forth بَيْنَ الأَنْبُبِ: in which case, the word, if أَنْبُب, may be a pl., regularly أَنُبّ, of which the sing. is نَبٌّ; or, if with ḍammeh to the hemzeh, it may be a contraction of أُنْبُوب, used as a coll. gen. n., in a pl. sense. (TA.)

أُنْبُوبٌ A way, or road. (Ḳ.) [Ex.] إِلْزَمِ الأُنْبُوبَ Keep to the way, or road. (Aṣ.)

أُنْبُوبُ جَبَلٍ ‡ A track, or streak, (طَرِيقَةٌ,) in a mountain, (Ḳ,) appearing distinctly therein: of the dial. of Hudheyl: (TA:) Ex. ذَهَبَ فِى كُلِّ انبوبٍ [He went along every track of the mountain, or mountains]. (TA.) [As a coll. gen. n., used in the pl. sense: ex.] Málik Ibn-Khalid El-Khuzá'ee says,

* فِى رَأْسِ شَاهِقَةٍ أُنْبُوبُهَا خُضْرٌ *

[On the top of a lofty mountain, the streaks of which are green]. (TA.)

أُنْبُوبٌ ‡ A row of trees (Ḳ), &c. (TA.) [See أُسْكُوبٌ.]

أُنْبُوبٌ An elevated tract of land: (Ḳ:) one that is fine (رقيق) and elevated: pl. أَنَابِيبُ. (TA.)

أُنْبُوبَةٌ An internodal portion of a reed or cane; such a portion thereof as intervenes between two joints, or knots: (Lth, Ṣ:) i. q. كَعْبٌ, [which signifies as above, and also a joint, or knot,] with reference to a reed, or cane, or a spear-shaft: (Ḳ:) as alsoأُنْبُوبٌ↓ (Lth, Ḳ) andأُنْبُبٌ↓, which latter is probably a contraction: (Ḳ:) [see below:] or the pl. of انبوبة is أُنْبُوبٌ and أَنَابِيبُ: (Ṣ:) [or انبوب is a coll. gen. n., of which the n. un. is انبوبة, and the pl. انابيب: see also art. انب].

[Hence,] اِجْعَلِ الأَمْرَ أُنْبُوبَةً وَاحِدَةً Make thou the affair, or case, [uniform, or] one uniform thing. (Fr. in TA in art. بأج.)

[Also, A sheath of a plant. See أُمْصُوخَةٌ.]

[And Any kind of tube. See قَصَبٌ.]