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ن ب ط

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Morphology · Lane's Lexicon · CC BY-SA 3.0

From Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863–1893), under the root نبط. Digitised by the Perseus Project (Tufts); Arabic decoded from Perseus's transliteration.

نَبَطَ , aor. نَبُطَ and نَبِطَ , inf. n. نُبُوطٌ (S, K) and نَبْطٌ , (K,) It (water) welled, or issued forth. (S, K.) -A2- See also 4.

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نَبَّطَ see 4.

نَاْبَطَ see 10.

انبط He (a digger) reached the water: (AA, S:) or reached the first that appeared of the water of a well, (K, TA,) and produced it, or fetched it out, by his labour. (TA.) And انبط فِى عَضْرَا=ءَ He produced, or fetched out, by labour, water from good clay, or from clay containing no sand. (TA.) -A2- [It is also trans.: you say,] انبط الرَّكِيَّةَ ; and ↓ استنبطها ; (M, K;) and ↓ نبّطها ; (IAar, M, TA;) in the K ↓ تنبّطها ; (TA;) and ↓ نَبَطَهَا , (M, K [in the CK with teshdeed to the ب ]) aor. نَبِطَ , (TA,) inf. n. نَبْطٌ ; (M;) He produced, or fetched out, by his labour [in digging], the water of the well; syn. أَمَاهَهَا ; (M, K;) and of the first, (TA,) and last, (TA,) [or rather of all,] استخرج مَا=ءَهَا . (K, TA.) And انبط المَا=ءَ , inf. n. اـِنْبَاطٌ ; and ↓ استنبطهُ ; He (a digger [of a well]) produced, or fetched out, by his labour, or work, the water. (Msb.) ― -b2- See also 10, in five places. -A3- اـِنْبَاطٌ also signifies The producing an effect, or making an impression; syn. تَأثيرٌ . (Ibn-'Abbád, Sgh, K.)

تَنَبَّطَ see 4: ― -b2- and 10. -A2- تنبّط also signifies He affected to be like, or imitated, the نَبَط [or Nabathæans]: or he asserted himself to be related to them. (K, TA.) [Compare 10, in the last of the senses assigned to it below.]

اـِنْتَبَطَ see 10.

استنبط : see 4, in two places: its primary signification is [that mentioned above,] from نَبَطٌ signifying the “ water that comes forth from a well when it is first dug. ” (Zj.) ― -b2- And hence, (Zj,) He drew out, or forth; extracted; educed; produced; elicited; fetched out by labour or art; got out; or extorted; syn. اسْتَخْرَجَ ; (Zj, S;) a thing: (Zj:) and (assumed tropical:) He made anything to appear after occultation; as also ↓ انبط ; (B;) [i. e. he brought it to light:] and اُسْتُنْبِطَ (assumed tropical:) it (anything) was made apparent, after occultation; as also ↓ أُنْبِطَ : (K:) or the latter, [simply,] (assumed tropical:) it was made apparent. (L.) And [hence] (tropical:) He (a lawyer) elicited ( استخرج ) an occult, or esoteric, doctrine of law, by his intelligence, and his labour, or study: (K, TA:) or you say استنبطهُ , meaning (assumed tropical:) he elicited it ( استخرجهُ ), namely a judicial sentence, by labour, or study; as also ↓ انبطهُ , inf. n. اـِنْبَاطٌ : (Msb:) or (assumed tropical:) he searched out the knowledge of it. (Jel. iv. 85.) And استنبط مِنْهُ عِلْمًا , and خَيْرًا , and مَالًا , (tropical:) He drew forth, elicited, or extorted, ( استخرج ,) from him knowledge, and good, or wealth, and property. (TA.) And ↓ نِبَاطٌ [app. an inf. n. of نَابَطَ ] signifies the same as اـِسْتِنْبَاط حَدِيتٍ (assumed tropical:) The drawing forth, or eliciting, ( اـِسْتَخْرَاج ) of discourse. (TA.) And الكَلَامَ ↓ تنبّط , accord. to the K, or, accord. to Sgh, on the authority of Ibn-'Abbád, ↓ انتبطهُ , (TA,) (assumed tropical:) He drew forth, or elicited, ( استخرج ,) speech. (Ibn- 'Abbád, Sgh, K.) And العِلْمَ ↓ انبط (tropical:) He revealed knowledge, and spread it among men. (TA.) ― -b3- استنبط الفَرَسَ (assumed tropical:) He sought to obtain offspring from the mare: occurring in a trad.: but accord. to one relation, it is اـِسْتَبْطَنَهَا , meaning, “ he sought what was in her belly. ” (TA.) -A2- He (a man) became a [naturalized] نَبَطِىّ [or Nabathæan]. (S, * TA.) It is said by Eiyoob Ibn-El-Kirreeyeh, أَهْلُ عُمَانَ عَرَبٌ ا@سْتَنْبَطُوا وَأَهْلُ البَحْرَيْنِ نَبِيطٌ ا@سْتَعْرَبُوا [The people of 'Omán are Arabs who became naturalized Nabathæans, and the people of ElBahreyn are Nabathæans who became naturalized Arabs]. (S, TA.) [See also 5.]

نَبَطٌ What first appears of the water of a well (IDrd, K) when it is dug; (IDrd;) as also ↓ نُبْطَةٌ : (K:) or the water that comes forth from a well when it is first dug: (Zj:) or the water that issues forth from the bottom of a well when it is dug; (S, accord. to one copy;) or this is termed ↓ نَبِيطٌ : (S, accord. to another copy; and TA:) pl. [of pauc.] أَنْبَاطٌ and [of mult.] نُبُوطٌ . (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence the saying,] فُلَانٌ قَرِيبُ الثَّرَى بَعِيدُ النَّبَطِ (assumed tropical:) Such a one's promising is near, [but] his fulfilling is remote: i. e. he promises, but does not fulfil. (IAar.) And فلان لَا يُدْرَكُ نَبَطُهُ , (TA,) and لَا يُدْرَكُ لَهُ نَبَطٌ , (ISd, TA,) (tropical:) Such a one's depth is not known, (K, * TA,) and the extent of his knowledge: (TA:) or such a one's depth is not known; meaning that he is cunning, or possessing intelligence mixed with craft and forecast. (ISd, TA.) And فُلَانٌ لَا يُنَالُ نَبَطُهُ (assumed tropical:) Such a one is invincible, and inaccessible to his enemy. (TA.) ― -b3- نَبَطٌ also signifies A well of which the water has been produced, or fetched out, by labour [of the digger]. (S, TA.) ― -b4- And What oozes, or exudes, from a mountain, as though it were sweat, coming forth from the sides of the rock. (TA.) -A2- النَّبَطُ , (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) and ↓ النَّبِيطُ , (S, Msb, K,) and الأَنْبَاطُ , (K,) the last is a pl. (AAF, S, Msb) of the first, (AAF,) and the second is [a quasi-pl. n.] like كَلِيبٌ , (AAF, L,) [The Nabathæans;] a people who alight and abide in the بَطَايءِح [see أَبْطَحُ ] between the two 'Iráks: (S, K:) or a people (T, M, Mgh, Msb) who alight and abide, (T, TA,) or who used to alight and abide, (Msb,) in the سَوَاد (T, M, Mgh, Msb) of El- 'Irák:) (M, Mgh, Msb:) afterwards applied to mixed people; or people of the lowest or basest or meanest sort; or the refuse of men; and the vulgar sort thereof: (Msb:) the people to whom these appellations properly apply were called نَبَط because of their fetching out by labour ( لِا@سْتِنْبَاطِهِمْ ) what comes forth from the lands: (TA:) [for they were distinguished for agriculture; and hence their proper appellations are used as equivalent to “ clowns, ” or “ boors: ” but a derivation commonly obtaining with us is that from Nebaioth the son of Ishmael:] the n. un. is ↓ نُبَاطِىٌّ , (Yaakoob, IAar, S, Mgh, Msb, K,) and ↓ نَبَاطِىٌّ , (IAar, S, Msb, K,) like يَمَانِىٌّ , (S,) and ↓ نِبَاطِىٌّ , (K,) and ↓ نَبَاطٍ , (S, K,) like يَمَانٍ , (S,) and ↓ نَبَطِىٌّ , (S, K,) like يَمَنِىٌّ , (S,) but this is disallowed by IAar, (Mgh, TA,) and, accord. to Lth, ↓ نَبَطَانِىٌّ , but this [also] is disallowed by IAar. (Msb.)

نُبْطَةٌ : see نَبَطٌ .

نَبَطِىٌّ : see نَبَطٌ .

نَبَطَانِىٌّ : see نَبَطٌ .

نَبَاطٌ : see نَبَطٌ .

نَبِيطٌ : and النَّبِيطٌ : see نَبَطٌ .

نَبَاطِىٌّ and نُبَاطِىٌّ and نِبَاطِىٌّ : see نَبَطٌ .

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