نوب

خَيْرٌ نَائِبٌ ذ Abundant good, (K,) that comes again and again [ by turns ]. (A.) ― -b2- حُمَّى نَائِبَةٌ A quotidian fever. (S.) ― -b3- نَائِبَةٌ Guests coming time after time. (TA, from a trad.) ― -b4- See نُوبٌ. ― -b5- نَائِبٌ One who supplies the place of another; who acts in his place or stead, or as his substitute, lieutenant, deputy, factor, or agent: pl. نُوَّابٌ. (Msb.) ― -b6- نَائِبَةٌ What befalls, betides, or happens, that is afflictive, distressing, difficult, or unfortunate: pl. نَوَائِبُ and نُوَبٌ; the latter of which is extr.: (TA:) or rather this latter is pl. of نُوبَةٌ, which is syn. with نائبة, (MF,) a subst. from نَابَهُ أَمْرٌ, (S,) [and therefore signifying an accident, or a casualty, &c.; and as such this pl. is not extr., but analogous:] an evil accident; a misfortune; a disaster; a calamity; an affliction: pl. نَوَائِبُ: (S:) only signifying what is evil: (Msb:) or, accord. to some, an accident, whether good or evil: ex. Lebeed says, نَوَائِبُ مِنْ خَيْرٍ وَشَرٍّ كِلَاهُمَا فَلَا الخَيْرُ مَمْدُودٌ وَلَا الشَّرُّ لَازِبُ [ Accidents of a good nature, and of an evil, both of them; and neither is the good prolonged, nor the evil constant ]: or what befalls, betides, or happens, to a man, of difficult, arduous, distressing, or afflictive, events, or affairs, and accidents: [ a difficulty, or difficult affair ] in a trad. respecting Kheyber it is said, قَسَمَهَا نُصْفَيْنِ نُصْفًا لِنَوَائِبِهِ وَحَاجَاتِهِ وَنُصْفًا بَيْنَ المُسْلِمِينَ [ He divided it into two halves; half for his own difficulties, or difficult affairs, and wants, and half among the Muslims ]. (TA.)