تنب

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily refers to a place name in the Levant, specifically a village or region near Aleppo and between Qinnasrin and al-'Awasim. It also denotes a type of large tree from which high-quality pitch is made.

Derived headwords

تَنَبname

1.
place nameclassical
A village or region located in Syria, near Aleppo, and situated between Qinnasrin and al-'Awasim.

التنبيname

1.
person's nameboth
A nisba (surname) indicating a person from the place named Tanab, or possibly related to the tree 'tanūb'. Several scholars bore this name.

التنوبnoun

1.
treeclassical
A type of large tree, described as growing very large, found in the region of Rum (Anatolia).

قطرانnoun

1.
pitchboth
A black, viscous substance obtained from the distillation of wood tar, particularly from the 'tanūb' tree, considered to be of excellent quality.

Parallel reading

أهمله الجوهري وصاحب اللسان

Al-Jawhari and the author of Al-Lisan omitted it.

وقال الصاغاني (: ع) وفي نسخة: ة (بالشام)

Al-Saghani said: 'Ain (a letter) and in a copy: Ta' (a letter) (in Sham).

إنها من قرى حلب

It is from the villages of Aleppo.

وقيل: هي ناحية بين قنسرين والعواصم

And it was said: it is a region between Qinnasrin and al-'Awasim.

فخر الدين (محمد بن محمد بن عقيل المحدث الكاتب الفائق) روى عن الموفق بن قدامة

Fakhr al-Din (Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Aqil, the excellent hadith scholar and scribe) narrated from Al-Muwaffaq ibn Qudamah.

وصالح التنبي، روى أيضا عن الصاحب كمال الدين بن العديم

And Salih al-Tanbi, he also narrated from Al-Sahib Kamal al-Din ibn al-'Adim.

وفاته الحسين بن زيد التنبي، روى عنه أبو طاهر الكرماني شيخ أبي سعد الماليني

And he missed Al-Husayn ibn Zayd al-Tanbi, Abu Tahir al-Kirmani, the teacher of Abu Sa'd al-Maylini, narrated from him.

التنوب (كالتنور: شجر عظام)

Al-Tanūb (like al-tanūr): large trees.

نص الدينوري: يعظم جدا

Al-Dinawari stated: it grows very large.

منابته (بالروم) ، اسم أعجمي

Its habitat is (in Rum), a foreign name.

منه يتخذ أجود (القطران)

From it is made the best (pitch).