Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

نَطَبَهُ (aor. ـُ {يَنْطُبُ}, inf. n. نَطْبٌ, TA,) He struck [or fillipped] his ear with his finger. (Ḳ.) انطب↓ أُذُنَهُ, and أَنْقَرَ, and بَلَّطَ, signify the same. (AA.)

نَاطَبَهُمْ, (inf. n. مُنَاطَبَةٌ, TA,) He incited them against each other, (Ḳ,) and acted in an evil or mischievous manner towards them. (TA.)

نَطْبَةٌ i. q. نَطْمَةٌ, i. e., A single act of piercing, or pecking, with the beak, of a cock, &c. (Az.)

نِطَابٌ The head. (Th, Ḳ.) Respecting the saying of El-Jo'eyd El-Murádee,

* نَحْنُ ضَرَبْنَاهُ على نِطَابِهِ *

ISk says, No one has explained it, and the reading better known is على تَطْيَابِهِ, meaning “notwithstanding the sweetness (طِيب) that was in him:” for the man spoken of was going in to a bride of the tribe of Murád: but accord. to some, نطاب here signifies The tendon of the neck; syn. حَبْلُ العُنُقِ; so in the Ḳ, on the authority of Aboo-ʼAdnán alone; or حبل العَاتِقِ, accord. to IAạr, who cites this verse:

* نَحْنُ ضَرَبْنَاهُ عَلَى نِطَابِهِ *

* قُلْنَا بِهِ قُلْنَا بِهِ قُلْنَا بِهِ *

[We smote him on the tendon of the upper part of his shoulders: we slew him: we slew him: we slew him]. قلنا به signifies قَتَلْنَاهُ. (TA.)

نَاطِبةٌ, and نَاطِبٌ, sing. of نَوَاطِبُ in the following sense: (TA:) The holes that are made in a thing with which one clears, or clarifies, [i. e. strains, or filters], and through which what is cleared [or strained] passes forth: (Ḳ:) the holes of a strainer for wine, &c. (TA.)

See مِنْطَبٌ.

مِنْطَبٌ and مِنْطَبَةٌ andنَاطِبٌ↓ A strainer; a colander. (Ḳ.)

مَنْطَبَةٌ Stupid; foolish; of little sense: (Ḳ:) an epithet applied to a man. (TA.)