نبط

نَبَطٌ ذ 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 بَطَائِح [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.)