نزب

Root entry · 7 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the sounds made by certain animals, particularly deer and goats. It also extends to terms for male animals of these species and, metaphorically, to insults or nicknames.

Derived headwords

نَزَبَ الظبي، يَنْزِبُverb

1.
to make a soundboth
The sound made by a deer, whether male or female.

نَزْبًاnoun

1.
soundboth
The sound made by a deer, whether male or female.

نَزِيبًاnoun

1.
soundboth
The sound made by a deer, whether male or female.

نَزَابًاnoun

1.
soundboth
The sound made by a deer, whether male or female.

النَّيْزَبnoun

1.
male deerclassical
A male deer or a male bovine animal.
2.
male goatclassical
A male goat, especially when making sounds during mating.

وظبية للوحش كالمغاضب في دولج ناء عن النيازب — And a wild doe like one angered in a journey far from the male deer.

النَّزَبnoun

1.
nicknameboth
A nickname or epithet, similar to 'nabz'.

تَنَازَبُواverb

1.
to insult each otherclassical
To call each other by nicknames or to insult each other.

Parallel reading

نزب الظبي، ينزب، بالكسر، نزبا بفتح فسكون، ونيزيبا كأمير، ونزاباً كغراب

The deer makes a sound, it makes a sound, with a kasra, nazban with fath and sukun, and naziban like amir, and nazaban like ghurab.

وهاذا الأخير من الزيادات في هامش الصحاح: (صوت)، سواء التيس منها أو الأنثى

And this latter is from the additions in the margin of Al-Sahah: (a sound), whether it is the male or the female.

أو خاص بالذكور منها وهي التيوس، وذالك عند السفاد، وهو الصحيح، وعليه اقتصر الجوهري

Or it is specific to the males among them, which are the male goats, and that is during mating, and this is the correct view, and Al-Jawhari limited himself to it.

والنيزب، كحيدر: ذكر الظباء والبقر

And al-nayzab, like Haydar: the male of deer and cattle.

والنزب، محركة: اللقب

And al-nazab, with haraka: the nickname.

مثل النبز

Like al-nabz.

تنازبوا: تنابزوا

They called each other names: they insulted each other.

قال ابن هشام: لم يسمع

Ibn Hisham said: it was not heard.

ونقله البدر الدماميني في أواخر بحث القلب من شرح التسهيل

And Badr Al-Damanhury transmitted it in the latter part of the discussion on metathesis in the explanation of Al-Tashil.

وحرره شيخنا في شرح الكافية في مبحث القلب: أنه إنما سمع النزب دون تصاريفه

And our Sheikh elaborated in the explanation of Al-Kafiya in the discussion on metathesis: that only nazab was heard without its derivations.

ولذالك حكموا عليه بأنه مقلوب من النبز؛ لأنه لو تصرفوا فيه، وبنوا منه الفعل، لصار أصلا مستقلا، وامتنع دعوى القلب، وحكم بالأصالة لكل منهما، كما قالوا في جبذ وجذب

And for that reason, they ruled that it is a metathesis of nabz; because if they had derived from it and formed the verb, it would have become an independent root, and the claim of metathesis would be impossible, and originality would be established for each of them, as they said regarding jabadha and jadhabha.