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هنبق

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to musical instruments, specifically wind instruments like flutes or pipes. It also has a secondary meaning related to a passage or channel, possibly derived from the hollow nature of a pipe.

Derived headwords

الهنبوقةnoun
  1. 1.
    fluteclassical

    A type of wind instrument, often a pipe or a flute.

  2. 2.
    vessel's passageclassical

    The passage or channel of a large vein or artery (al-wadj).

هنابيقnoun
  1. 1.
    flutesclassical

    The plural of al-hanbūqah, referring to flutes or pipes.

هنابيقهnoun
  1. 1.
    its flutesclassical

    A possessive form of the plural 'hanābiq', referring to the flutes belonging to something.

الزنبقnoun
  1. 1.
    fluteclassical

    Another term for a musical pipe or flute.

Parallel reading

الهنبوقة: المزمار، وهو أيضا مجرى الودج.
Al-hanbūqah: the flute, and it is also the passage of the jugular vein.
أبو مالك الهنبوق المزمار، وجمعه هنابيق؛
Abu Malik said al-hanbūq is the flute, and its plural is hanābīq;
قال كثير عزة: يرجع في حيزومه، غير باغم، ... يراعا من الأحشاء جوفا هنابقه
Kuthayyir 'Azzah said: It returns in its belly, not bleating, ... a pipe from the innards, a hollow of its flutes.
أراد هنابيقه، فحذف الياء.
He intended hanābīqahu (its flutes), and omitted the ya'.
والزنبق المزمار.
And al-zanbaq is the flute.