نهب

نَهْبٌ ذ Spoil; plunder; booty; (S, K;) as also ↓ نُهْبَةٌ: (TA, art. خلس:) ex. أَتَى لَهُ بِنَهْبٍ he came to him with, or brought to him, spoil: (TA:) pl. نِهَابٌ (S, K) and نُهُوب: (Nh, &c:) ↓ نُهْبَى also signifies the same; and thus is similar to نُحْلَى, meaning عَطِيَّةٌ: and also signifies what is allowed, or given, to be taken as spoil, plunder, or booty; and thus is similar to عُمْرَى and رُقْبَى; (IAth;) and so ↓ نُهْبَةٌ (Msb) [and ↓ نُهَيْبَى and ↓ نُهَّيْبَى:] a man, named Fizr, said of some goats which he drove forth, هِىَ النُّهَّيْبَى, or النُّهَيْبَى, accord. to different readings; meaning that it was not allowable to any one person to take of them more than one (TA:) or نَهْبٌ signifies what is taken as spoil, plunder, or booty; or so taken by whomsoever will, of what is allowed to be so taken: syn. مَا ا@نْتُهِبَ: (Lh, K:) and ↓ نُهْبَى, what is allowed to be so taken; syn. اـِسْمُ مَا أُنْهِبَ: (S:) or what is taken as spoil, plunder, or booty; syn. اـِسْمُ مَا نُهِبَ. (So in one copy of the S.) ― -b2- [Hence] نَهْبٌ An incursion made into an enemy's territory for the sake of acquiring spoil, plunder, or booty; and a spoiling, or plundering. (TA.) -A2- أَحْرَزْتُ نَهْبِى وَأَبْتَغِى النَّوَافِلَ, in a trad. of Aboo-Beker, means I have accomplished what I had to perform of the prayers termed الوِتْرُ before my sleeping, lest the occasion for my doing so should slip from me; and when I awake, I perform the prayers termed النوافل. (TA.) [He termed the وتر prayers نَهْبٌ because he performed them before the right time.] -A3- نَهْبٌ (tropical:) A kind of رَكْض [i. e., app., of running, with reference to a horse]. (Lh, K.)