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نهبل

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root appears to relate to concepts of age, heaviness, and large size, particularly in relation to people and animals. It describes elderly individuals and a heavy, lumbering gait.

Derived headwords

نَهَبَلَverb
  1. 1.
    to be oldclassical

    To have reached an advanced age; to be elderly.

نَهْبَلadjective
  1. 1.
    elderly manclassical

    An old man.

شيخ نهبل — an old man
نَهْبَلَةadjective
  1. 1.
    elderly womanclassical

    An old woman.

عجوز نهبلة — an old woman
النَّهْبَلَةnoun
  1. 1.
    heavy gaitclassical

    A manner of walking characterized by heaviness and slowness.

  2. 2.
    large she-camelclassical

    A large, stout female camel.

Parallel reading

شيخ نهبل، وعجوز نهبلة.
An old man, and an old woman.
والنهبلة: مشية في ثقل، والناقة الضخمة.
And the nahbalah: a gait with heaviness, and a large she-camel.
وفي الترمذي في حديث الدجال: "فيطرحهم بالنهبل"
And in Tirmidhi, in the hadith of the Dajjal: 'He will cast them down with the nahbal.'