نجب

8 انتجبهُ ذ He selected him; chose him; (S;) preferred him above others. (TA.) See also انتخب. ― -b2- See 1. ― -b3- ذَهَبَ يَنْتَجِبُ He went to collect [ the kind of bark called ] نَجَبٌ. (TA.) ― -b4- A poet says, يَا أَيُّهَا الزَّاعِمُ أَنِّى أَجْتَلِبْ وَأَنَّنِى غَيْرَ عِضَاهِى أَنْتَجِبْ meaning, O thou who assertest that I take the verses of other poets and appropriate them to myself, and, and as it were, take the bark of other trees than my own 'idáh, to tan therewith... (TA.) [See عِضَاهُ.]