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نبش

Root entry · 6 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the act of digging, excavating, or unearthing something, often with the implication of disturbing what was buried. It extends to the idea of searching through or disturbing things, including dead bodies or plants.

Derived headwords

نَبَشَverb
  1. 1.
    meaning he extracted itboth

    meaning he extracted it

أَنْبَشُverb
  1. 1.
    to dig up (present tense)both

    The present tense form of the verb 'nabasha', indicating the ongoing action of digging up.

نَبْشًاnoun
  1. 1.
    digging upboth

    The verbal noun (masdar) of 'nabasha', referring to the act of excavating or unearthing.

النَّبَّاشnoun
  1. 1.
    the grave diggerboth

    the grave digger

الأُنْبُوشnoun
  1. 1.
    uprooted plantclassical

    A plant that has been dug up or uprooted from the ground.

  2. 2.
    root of a plantclassical

    The base or origin of a plant that has been unearthed.

الأَنَابِيشnoun
  1. 1.
    uprooted plantsclassical

    The plural of 'al-unbush', referring to multiple plants that have been dug up.

Parallel reading

نبشت البقل والميت أنبش بالضم نبشا.
I dug up the plants and the dead, I dig up with the damma, a digging up.
ومنه النباش.
And from this is the grave robber.
والأنبوش: أصل البقل المنبوش، والجمع الأنابيش.
And al-unbush: the origin of the dug-up plant, and the plural is al-anabeesh.
كأن السباع فيه غرقى عشية * بأرجائه القصوى أنابيش عنصل
As if the wild beasts in it were drowning in the evening * in its farthest reaches, uprooted wild onions.