Lane's Lexicon (Edward Lane, 1863)

نَخَبٌ ذ : see نَخِبٌ.

نَخِبٌ ذ (S, K) and ↓ نَخْبٌ and ↓ نَخْبَةٌ (so accord. to the TA: in the CK نُخْبَةٌ:) and ↓ نُخْبَةٌ (in the CK ↓ نُخَبَةٌ) and ↓ نِخَبٌّ and ↓ نِخِبٌّ (K) and ↓ نَخِيبٌ and ↓ مَنْخُوبٌ and ↓ مُنْتَخَبٌ (S, K) and ↓ يَنْخُوبٌ, (K,) to which the CK adds ↓ نَخَبٌ, A cowardly man; a coward; as though his heart were drawn out; (S;) i. e., having no heart. (TA.) ↓ قَلْبٌ نَخِيبٌ [ A cowardly heart ]: نخيب signifies a coward, who has no heart: or, accord. to some, one who acts corruptly. (TA.) Pl. (of ↓ نخيب, TA,) نُخُبٌ: (K:) of ↓ منخوب, مَنْخُوبُونَ, and sometimes, in poetry, accord. to IAth, مَنَاخِبُ: and Aboo-Bekr mentions نخبات as a pl. of نخبة. (TA.)

نَخْبَةٌ ذ : see نَخْبٌ and نَخِبٌ. -A2- نَخْبَةُ نَمْلَةٍ, and نَجْبَةُ نملة, q. v., A bite of an ant. Both these modes of writing the word are mentioned by IAth on the authority of Z.

نُخْبَةٌ ذ : see نَخِبٌ and نُخَبَةٌ.

نُخَبَةٌ ذ (As, S, K) and ↓ نُخْبَةٌ (AM, K), the former the more approved word, (TA,) Chosen; choice; select; preferred; excellent; best: or what is chosen, &c.: (K:) i. q. نُجَبَةٌ, q. v.: (S:) pl. of the former نُخَبٌ. (S.) Ex. جَاءَ فى نُخَبِ أَصْحَابِهِ He came with the best of his companions. (S.) نخبةُ المَتَاعِ The choice part of the goods, or utensils, &c.; what was drawn, or taken, out from them. (TA.) ― -b2- A company, or troop, chosen, or selected, and drawn out, from the men. Ex., from a trad., خَرَجْنَا فِى النُّخَبَةِ We went forth with the chosen band. (TA.) ― -b3- See نَخِبٌ.

نِخَبٌّ ذ and نِخِبٌّ and نَخِيبٌ: see نَخِبٌ.

نِخَابٌ ذ The skin of the heart. (TA.)

مَنْخَبَةٌ ذ : see نَخْبٌ.

مِنْخَابٌ ذ syn. with مِنْجَابٌ; (TA;) A weak man, in whom is no good: (K:) pl. مَنَاخِيبُ, and sometimes, in poetry, مَنَاخِبُ. (TA.)

مَنْخُوبٌ ذ Lean; meagre; emaciated. (K.) ― -b2- See نَخِبٌ.

مُنْتَخَبٌ ذ : see نَخِبٌ.

يَنْخُوبٌ ذ : see نَخِبٌ.

يَنْخُوبَةٌ ذ : see نَخْبٌ.

1 نَخَتَ ذ , inf. n. نَخْتٌ, He pecked, or picked up, and pulled off, or tore off, and snatched away, with his beak; syn. نَقَرَ and نَتَخَ, (K,) formed by transposition. (TA.) ― -b2- نَخَتَ, [aor. نَخُتَ ,] inf. n. نَخْتٌ, He took a date, or two dates, from a bag or other receptacle for travelling-provisions &c. (K.) ― -b3- نَخَتَ, [aor. نَخُتَ ,] inf. n. نَخْتٌ, He plucked out; syn. نَتَفَ. (IAth, L.) -A2- See 2.

2 نِخّت لِفُلَانٍ ذ , as also سخّت لَهُ, He went to the utmost length (استقصى) in speaking to such a one. So in the Nawádir. (Az, L.) [Accord. to the K, ↓ نَخَتَ, inf. n. نَخْتٌ.]

نَخْتَةٌ نَمْلَةٍ ذ A bite of an ant. So in a trad., accord. to one reading: accord. to another reading, it is نَجْبَةُ [q. v.]. (L.)

1 نَخَجَ الدَّلْوَ ذ , (S, K,) and نَخَجَ بِهَا, (TA,) aor. نَخَجَ , inf. n. نَخْجٌ, (K,) He agitated, or moved about, the bucket; (S, K;) a dial. form of مَخَجَ; (S;) or, accord. to Yaakoob, its ن is substituted for م: he moved about the bucket in the well in order that it might fill. (TA.) ― -b2- نَخَجَ, (S, K,) aor. نَخَجَ (K) and نَخُجَ , (L,) inf. n. نَخْجٌ, (K,) Inivit feminam. (S, K.)

نَخِيجَةٌ ذ , (ISk, S, K,) or, accord. to some, نَجِيجٌ, without ة, (TA,) or, as some say, نَجِيخَةٌ, and (says J) I know not which is right, (S,) Thin butter which comes forth from the skin when it is carried on a camel, after the first butter has been taken forth. (S, K.)

1 نَخَرَ ذ , (S, A, Msb, K,) aor. نَخُرَ (S, Msb, K) and نَخِرَ , (S, K,) inf. n. نَخِيرٌ, (S, A, Msb, K,) and نَخْرٌ, (CK, but omitted in MS. copies of the K,) said of a horse, (As, TA,) and of an ass, (A, TA,) and of a man, (TA,) [ He snorted; and he snored; ] he made a sound, or noise, with the nose; (S;) he made a sound, or noise, from his nose; he prolonged the breath from the خَيَاشِيم [or air-passages of the nose ]; (Msb;) he made a sound, or noise, from his خياشيم, as though it were a musical note issuing convulsively; (TA;) he uttered a prolonged sound, or noise, from his خياشيم: (A, K:) the sound which horses make, termed نَخِيرٌ, is from the nostrils; that termed شَخِيرٌ, from the mouth; and that termed كَرِيرٌ, from the chest. (As, in TA, art. شخر.) You also say of a woman نَخَرَتْ, aor. نَخُرَ and نَخِرَ , (L,) or نَخَرَ , (so in the TA,) meaning, She made the same noise, [i. e., she snorted, ] in the act of concubitus, as though she were possessed. (L, TA.) -A2- نَخِرَ, (S, Msb, K,) aor. نَخَرَ , (Msb, K,) inf. n. نَخَرٌ, (Msb,) It (a thing, S, or a bone, Msb, TA, and wood, TA) became old and wasted and crumbling; (S, Msb, K;) it became old and wasted and soft, crumbling when touched. (TA.)

نَخِرٌ ذ (S, Msb, K) and ↓ نَاخِرٌ (Msb, K) A bone, (S, Msb,) and wood, (TA,) old and wasted and crumbling; (S, Msb, K;) old and wasted and soft, crumbling when touched: (TA:) fem. of each with ة: (K:) or the former signifies a bone old and wasted: (K:) and the latter, a hollow bone, having a hole passing through it, (K, TA,) whence comes, when the wind blows, a sound like that which is termed نَخِيرٌ; [see نَخَرَ;] (TA;) a bone into which the wind enters and whence it then issues with the sound so termed; (S;) a bone, and wood, in which the wind makes the sound so termed. (A.) Of the two readings, in the Kur, [lxxix. 11,] عِظَامًا نَاخِرَةً and عِظَامًا نَخِرَةً, Fr prefers the former, as agreeable in form with the words ending the other verses; and he says that نَاخِرَةٌ and نَخِرَةٌ are the same in meaning, like طَامِعٌ and طَمِعٌ. (TA.)

نُخْرَةٌ ذ (tropical:) A vehement blowing of the wind. (S, A, K.) -A2- Also, (S, A, K,) and ↓ نُخَرَةٌ, (S,) The fore part of the nose, (S, K,) i. e., the head thereof, [or the flexible part, ] of a man, (TA,) and of a horse, and of an ass, and of a pig, (S,) and of a sheep or goat, and of a she-camel: (TA:) or the hole thereof; (K;) i. q. ↓ مَنْخِرٌ: (A:) or the part between the two nostrils: or the end, or tip, of the nose: (K:) or, as some say, the nose itself: (A, TA:) whence the saying, (TA,) هشم نُخْرَتَهُ He broke his nose. (S, TA.)

نُخَرَةٌ ذ : see نُخْرَةٌ.

نَاخِرٌ ذ Making the sound termed نَخِيرٌ: see 1. (TA.) ― -b2- مَا بِهَا نَاخِرٌ, (S, K,) i. e., بِالدَّارِ, (A,) (tropical:) There is not any one in it, (El-Báhilee, Yaakoob, S, K,) i. e., in the house. (A.) -A2- See also نَخِرٌ.

مَنْجَرٌ ذ , مُنْخُرٌ and مِنْخِرٌ: see مَنْخِرٌ.

مَنْخِرٌ ذ , [the most common form,] originally, The place of the sound termed نَخِيرٌ. See 1. (Msb.) ― -b2- And hence, (Msb,) The hold of the nose; the nostril; (S, Msb, K;) as also ↓ مِنْخِرٌ, (T, S, Msb, K,) with kesr to the م to agree with the vowel of the خ, like as they say مِنْتِنٌ [for مُنْتِنٌ], (S, Msb,) both of which words are extr., as مِفْعِلٌ is not one of the [regular] measures, (S,) and it is said that there is no word of this measure beside these two, (Msb,) or ↓ مِنْخِرٌ is for ↓ مِنْخِيرٌ, and in like manner مِنْتِنٌ is for مِنْتِينٌ, which is the original form, (T, TA,) and ↓ مِنْخَرٌ and ↓ مُنْخُرٌ (K) and ↓ مُنْخُورٌ, (S, Msb, K,) like عُصْفُورٌ (Msb) and مُلْمُولٌ, (K, [in the CK, erroneously, مَلْمُول]) which last is [said to be] of the dial. of Teiyi, (Msb,) and said to occur in a verse of Gheylán, but IB says that the right reading is مَنْحُور, with ح, syn. with نَحْرٌ: (Sgh, in art. نحر; and L, in the present art.) pl. مَنَاخِرُ and مَنَاخِيرُ; (Msb;) [the latter irreg., unless pl. of مِنْخِيرٌ or مُنْخُورٌ.]

مِنْخَارٌ ذ A man who makes the sound termed نَخِيرٌ [see نَخَرَ] in the act of concubitus: (TA:) and a woman who does so in that act, as though she were possessed. (K.)

مُنْخُورٌ ذ : see مَنْخِرٌ.

مِنْخِيرٌ ذ : see مَنْخِرٌ.

Q. 1 نَخْرَبَ أخرب نخرب خرب It (a canker-worm) pierced holes in, or eroded, a tree. (K.) IJ derives this verb from خَرَابٌ, (TA,) q. v.

نُخْرُوبٌ نخروب ; (S, K;) mentioned in the K without description of its measure because there is no Arabic word of the measure فَعْلُولْ; but some prefer it being written نَخْرُوبٌ, [as it is in the CK,] asserting its ن to be augmentative, so that its measure is نَفْعُولٌ, as IAar holds, asserting it to be derived from خَرَابٌ; (TA;) A fissure, or cleft, in a stone. (S, K.) ― -b2- Also, [so in the TA: in the CK and a MS. copy, or,] A hole, perforation, or bore, in anything. (K.) Pl. نَخَارِيبُ. (S.) ― -b3- Also, the pl., The holes, or cells, prepared with wax for the bees to deposit their honey therein: (K:) holes like the cells of wasps. (L.)

نَخْرَبُوتٌ ذ [ i. q. تَخْرَبُوتٌ] An excellent, nimble, or agile, she-camel. Some say that its ن is augmentative, and its radical letters are خرب; but its derivation from خَرَابٌ is not apparent; therefore its ن should be considered as radical. (AHei.)

شَجَرَةٌ مُنَخْرِبَةٌ ذ , and مُنَخْرَبَةٌ, A tree that is old and pierced with holes. (K.)

1 نَخَسَهُ ذ , aor. نَخُسَ , (S, A, Msb, K,) and نَخَسَ , (Lh, S, A, Mgh, K,) and نَخِسَ , (Lh, TA,) inf. n. نَخْسٌ, (S, Mgh, Msb,) He goaded, or pricked, him, namely, a beast, (A, Mgh, Msb, K,) with a stick (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) or the like, (A, Mgh, Msb, K, in the hinder part, or the side, (A, K,) so that he became excited. (Msb.) ― -b2- نَخَسَ بِهِ He goaded his beast. (Mgh.) ― -b3- نَخَسُوا بِهِ, (A, L, TA,) or نَخَسُوهُ, (K,) They goaded his (a man's) beast, and drove him (the man) away; (A, L, TA;) they drove him away, goading his camel with him. (K.) ― -b4- And نَخَسَ بِالرَّجُلِ (assumed tropical:) He excited, or roused, the man, and disquieted, or disturbed, him. (L, TA.) ― -b5- You say also, بِهِ ↓ أَنْخَسَ, meaning, أَبْعَدَهُ (tropical:) [ He put him, or sent him, away, or far away ]. (A, TA.) [Or perhaps the right reading is اـِنْخَسْ بِهِ, meaning, أَبْعِدْهُ [ Put thou him, or send thou him, away, or far away: as seems to be indicated by what immediately follows in those two works and here.] And تَكَلَّمَ فَنَخَسُوا بِهِ (tropical:) [app. meaning He spoke, and they put him away ]. (A, TA.)

4 أَنْخَسَ see 1.

نِخَاسَةٌ ذ and نَخَاسَةٌ The trade of selling beasts: and the trade of selling slaves. (K.)

نَخَّاسٌ ذ A goader of beasts. (Msb.) — And hence, (S, * A, * Msb,) A seller of beasts; (K;) one who acts as a broker for the sale of beasts (Mgh, Msb) and the like: (Msb:) and a seller of slaves: (K;) sometimes used in the latter sense: (TA:) a genuine Arabic word. (IDrd.)

See Supplement

1 نَدَّ ذ , aor. نَدِ3َ , inf. n. نَدٌّ (S, M, A, &c.,) and نِدَادٌ and نُدُودٌ (S, M, L, K) and نَدِيدٌ; (M, L, Msb, K;) and ↓ تنادّ; (M, L;) He (a camel) took fright, or shied, and fled, or ran away at random, or became refractory, and went away at random; or ran away, or broke loose, and went hither and thither by reason of his sprightliness. (S, M, A, L, Msb, K.) See also 6, below. ― -b2- Also نَدَّ, contr., It (a people) assembled. ('Ináyeh, MF.) ― -b3- نَدَّ It (a word) deviated from the constant course of speech; like شَذَّ; as some say; as mentioned by El-Fárisee: but it is not of good authority, nor agreeable with the usage of Sb. (M, L.)

2 نَدَّ3َ see 4. -A2- ندّد, inf. n. تَنْدِيدٌ, He raised his voice. (L.) ― -b2- ندّد He raised his voice in saying of another that which he (the latter) disliked. (Lth, in L, art. شيد.) See 4 in art. شيد. ― -b3- ندّد بِهِ, (inf. n. تَنْدِيدٌ, L.) He declared, or exposed, his vices, or faults; (M, L, K;) in verse or prose; (M, L;) he rendered him notorious, or infamous. (AZ, S, L.) ― -b4- He made him to hear what was bad, evil, abominable, or foul: (AZ, T, M, L, K.) he reviled him. (AZ, T, L.)

3 نادّهُ ذ He opposed him, oppugned him. (L, K.)

4 اندّ ذ and ↓ ندّد He dispersed camels. (M, L, K.)

6 تنادّوا ذ They dispersed themselves, and betook themselves away. (K.) [See also 1.] Hence, يَوْمُ التَّنَادِّ (S, M, L, K,) [ The day of men's dispersing themselves, and betaking themselves in different directions ], applied to the day of resurrection: (M, L:) so in the Kur, [xl. 34,] accord. to the reading of some; (S, M, L, K;) namely El-'Abbás and others: (K:) Az says, accord. to the reading of Ed-Dahhák only: (L:) others read التَّنَادِ; which may also be from ندّ; one of the dáls being changed into ى, and being then elided: (T, L:) or this may be from النِّدَاآءُ: (M:) or يوم التنادّ may mean the day of men's assembling themselves together, from نَدَّ signifying “ it (a people) assembled. ” ('Ináyeh MF.)

نَدٌّ ذ (and ↓ نِدٌّ, M, L,) A certain kind of perfume, (S, M, L, K,) well known, (K,) with which one fumigates: (Lth, M, L:) a certain wood with which one fumigates: (Msb:) or, as some say, i. q. غَالِيَةٌ: or, as Z says, in the Rabeea el-Abrár, a compound of aloes-wood aromatized with musk and ambergris and نان: (TA:) or (accord. to Aboo-'Amr Ibn-El-'Alà, T, L) ambergris, عَنْبَرٌ: (T, L:) or عَبِيرٌ [i. e., either saffron, or a certain mixture of perfumes: so in the copy of the T used by the author of the TT, if correctly transcribed by him:] it is not Arabic: (S:) or is thought by IDrd to be not genuine Arabic: (M, L,) many of the lexicologists, however, hold it to be genuine Arabic; and it occurs in verses of old poets; (MF;) but this does not prove that it is not an arabicized word. (TA.) -A2- نَدٌّ A high hill; (K;) a hill rising high into the sky: (S, L:) of the dial. of El-Yemen: (L:) a great hill (أَكَمَة) of clay or loam. (K.)

نِدٌّ ذ and ↓ نَدِيدٌ and ↓ نَدِيدَةٌ A like (S, L, K) of a person or thing: (L:) or a like of a thing by participation of substance; a more special term than مِثْلٌ, which signifies “ a like by participation of anything: ” (the kádee Zekereeyà, MF:) or a thing which does, or may, supply, the place of another thing: (TA:) or a like that is contrary, or opposed, to another thing; (Msb;) that opposes it (يُنَحادُّهُ, i. e., يُخَالِفُهُ,) in its circumstances; (L;) syn. with ضِدٌّ and شِبْهٌ: (Akh:) and hence the first is applied to an idol; a thing taken as an object of worship instead of the true God: (L:) pl. of the first, أَنْدَادٌ; (L, Msb, K;) and of the second, نُدَدَاآءُ; and of the third, نَدَائِدُ. (K.) You say, هُوَ نِدُّ فُلَانٍ, and نَدِيدُهُ, and نَديِدَتْهُ, He is the like of such a one: (L:) and هِىَ نِدُّ فُلَانَةَ, (ISh, L, K,) She is the like of such a female; (ISh, L;) but not نِدُّ فُلَانٍ. (ISh, L, K.) You also say هُوَ نِدِّى, and نَدِيدِى, meaning He is my opponent with respect to the course that I would pursue, contending with me for a different course. (AHeyth, T, L.) -A2- See نَدٌّ.

نَدُودٌ ذ A she-camel wont to take fright, or shy, and run away, at random; &c.: see 1. (M, L.)

نَدِيدٌ ذ and نَدِيدَةٌ: see نِدٌّ.

نَادٌّ ذ , act. part. n. of نَدَّ, A camel taking fright, or shying, and running away, at random; &c.: pl. نِدَادٌ: (Msb, TA:) and quasi pl. n. نَدَدٌ; (L;) signifying camels in a state of dispersion. (L, K.) -A2- لَيْسَ لَهُ نَادٌّ He has not any means of subsistence: (K:) app. meaning live stock; from نَدَّ, said of a camel. (TA.) ― -b2- [See also شَاذٌّ, and اَشَذَّهُ.]

طَيْرٌ أَنَادِيدُ ذ , and يَنَادِيدُ, Birds in a state of dispersion: (M, L:) [like أَبَادِيدُ and يَبَادِيدُ or تَبَادِيدُ: see an ex. in art. بد]. ― -b2- ذَهَبُوا أَنَادِيدَ, and يَنَادِيدُ, (L, and some copies of the K,) or تَنَادِيدَ, (as in other copies of the K,) They (a people, L) became dispersed in every direction. (L, K.)

مُنَدَّ ذ A voice raised high in calling. (L.)

1 نَدَأَ ذ , aor. نَدَاَ , He hated a thing: or it is a mistake for نَذَأَ. (As, S, K.) -A2- نَدَأَ, (S, K,) aor. نَدَاَ , inf. n. نَدْءٌ (TA) He cast flesh-meat into the fire: (K:) or he buried it, (S, K,) or a cake of bread, (S,) in hot ashes, (S, K, TA,) that it might become thoroughly cooked, or baked. (S.) -A3- نَدَأَ, (K,) inf. n. نَدْءٌ, (TA,) He frightened. (K.) -A4- نَدَأَ He cast a person upon the ground. (K.) -A5- نَدَأَ عَلَيْهِمْ He came forth upon them. (K.) -A6- نَدَأَ المَلَّةَ He made, or prepared, the kind of fire called ملّة. (K.)