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نقث

Root entry · 11 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to rapid or forceful action, often involving extraction, disturbance, or causing distress. It can describe speed, harming someone with words, mixing things, extracting marrow, digging, and a specific animal.

Derived headwords

نَقَثَverb
  1. 1.
    to hastenboth

    To move or act with great speed.

نَقْثnoun
  1. 1.
    speedclassical

    The quality or state of being fast or rapid.

انْتَقَثَverb
  1. 1.
    to hastenclassical

    To move or act with great speed, similar to the basic verb form.

  2. 2.
    to dig intoclassical

    To excavate or dig into something.

تَنَقَّثَverb
  1. 1.
    to mixclassical

    To blend or mix things together, like mixing food.

  2. 2.
    to dig intoclassical

    To excavate or dig into something, similar to انتقث.

نَقَثَ فُلَانًا بِالْكَلَامِverb
  1. 1.
    to harm with wordsclassical

    To cause distress or harm to someone through speech.

نَقَثَ حَدِيثَهُverb
  1. 1.
    to mix his speechclassical

    To confuse or jumble one's speech, making it incoherent.

نَقَثَ الْعِظَامَverb
  1. 1.
    to extract marrowclassical

    To remove the marrow from bones.

نَقَثَ الشَّيْءَverb
  1. 1.
    to dig intoclassical

    To excavate or dig into something.

نَقْثnoun
  1. 1.
    diggingclassical

    The act of excavating or digging into something.

ضَبُعٌnoun
  1. 1.
    hyenaclassical

    A specific type of wild animal, a hyena.

تَنَقَّثَتِ الْمَرْأَةُverb
  1. 1.
    to be coaxedclassical

    A woman being persuaded or softened through appeals to emotion.

Parallel reading

أسرع
He hastened.
كنقث
Like hastening.
وانتقث
And he hastened.
وفلانا بالكلام: آذاه
And he harmed someone with words.
وحديثه: خلطه كخلط الطعام
And his speech: he mixed it like mixing food.
والعظم: استخرج مخه
And the bone: he extracted its marrow.
والشيء: حفر عنه
And the thing: he dug into it.
كانتقث فيهما
Like digging into them.
وكقطام: الضبع
And like Qattām: the hyena.
وتنقث المرأة: استمالها واستعطفها
And the woman was coaxed: she was persuaded and softened.