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نخع

Root entry · 15 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns concepts of submission, acknowledgment, and piercing or cutting through to the core. It extends to meanings of sincerity, clarity, and intense killing, with some metaphorical uses related to speech and natural phenomena.

Derived headwords

نَخَعَverb
  1. 1.
    to acknowledge and submitclassical

    To acknowledge a right or truth and submit to it, showing obedience.

  2. 2.
    to skin and pierceclassical

    To skin an animal, then pierce its neck to reach the heart's blood.

  3. 3.
    to cut the spinal cordclassical

    To cut through the spinal cord of a slaughtered animal.

  4. 4.
    to be sincereclassical

    To offer sincerity and advice wholeheartedly to someone.

  5. 5.
    to kill intenselyclassical

    To kill with extreme severity.

  6. 6.
    to water (plants)classical

    For the water to flow in the stem of a plant.

نخع لي فلان بحقي، كمنعض نخوعا، أي: أقر وأذعن — So-and-so acknowledged and submitted to me regarding my right, like someone who acknowledges, meaning: he admitted and submitted.
نخع الشاة ينخعها نخعا: سلخها ثم وجأها في نحرها ليخرج دم القلب — He skinned the sheep and then pierced its neck to let out the heart's blood.
ذبحها فنخعها نخعا، أي: جاوز منتهى الذبح، فأصاب نخاعها — He slaughtered it and pierced its spinal cord, meaning: he exceeded the limit of slaughter and hit its spinal cord.
نخع فلانا الودذ والنصيحة: أخلصهما له — He offered him sincerity and advice wholeheartedly.
إن أنخع الأسماء عند الله أن يتسمى الرجل باسم ملك الأملاك — The most offensive of names to God is for a man to name himself 'King of Kings'.
نُخُوعnoun
  1. 1.
    acknowledgment and submissionclassical

    The act of acknowledging and submitting, as mentioned in the context of accepting a right.

نخع لي فلان بحقي، كمنعض نخوعا، أي: أقر وأذعن — So-and-so acknowledged and submitted to me regarding my right, like someone who acknowledges, meaning: he admitted and submitted.
بَخَعَverb
  1. 1.
    to acknowledge and submitclassical

    Similar to 'nakh'a', meaning to acknowledge and submit, particularly regarding rights.

وكذلك بخع، بالباء كما تقدم — And likewise 'bakha'a', with a 'ba' as previously mentioned.
نَخْعnoun
  1. 1.
    piercing the spinal cordclassical

    The act of cutting through the spinal cord of a slaughtered animal, often due to haste.

  2. 2.
    intense killingclassical

    Severe or extreme killing.

  3. 3.
    tribeclassical

    A tribe in Yemen, the lineage of Ibrahim al-Nakha'i.

نخعها نخعا: قطع نخاعها — He cut its spinal cord.
والنخع: القتل الشديد من ذلك — And 'al-nakhu': intense killing from that.
والنخع، محركة: قبيلة باليمن رهط إبراهيم النخعي — And 'al-nakhu', with vowel movement: a tribe in Yemen, the kin of Ibrahim al-Nakha'i.
النَّاخِعadjective
  1. 1.
    knowerclassical

    One who possesses deep knowledge.

  2. 2.
    clarifier of mattersclassical

    One who explains or clarifies important issues.

  3. 3.
    one who killed matters with knowledgeclassical

    One who has mastered or definitively understood matters through knowledge.

والناخع: العالم وقيل: هو المبين للأمور، وقيل: هو الذي قتل الأمر علما — And 'al-nakhi': the knower, and it is said: he is the clarifier of matters, and it is said: he is the one who definitively understood the matter through knowledge.
وهو مجاز، وبه فسر قول شقران السلاماني: (إن الذي ربضتما أمره ... سرا وقد بين للناخع) — And it is metaphorical, and by this was interpreted the saying of Shukran al-Salmani: (Indeed, the matter you both settled... was secret, yet it became clear to the one who understood it).
النُخَاعَةnoun
  1. 1.
    phlegmboth

    Spittle or mucus expelled from the mouth or throat.

  2. 2.
    mucus from nasal cavityclassical

    What comes out from the nasal passages.

  3. 3.
    saliva from mouth's baseclassical

    The spit that comes from the base of the mouth near the spinal cord.

والنخاعة، بالضم: النخامة، كما في الصحاح وهو ما يتفله الإنسان، أو ما يخرج من الصدر، أو ما يخرج من الخيشوم — And 'al-nukha'ah', with damma: phlegm, as in al-Sihah, which is what a person spits out, or what comes from the chest, or what comes from the nasal cavity.
وقد جاء في الحديث: النخضاعة في المسجد خطيئة — And it has come in the hadith: 'Spitting in the mosque is a sin'.
النُّخَاعnoun
  1. 1.
    spinal cordboth

    The white cord within the vertebrae, extending from the brain down the spine.

  2. 2.
    marrowboth

    The white substance inside the bones, particularly the vertebrae.

  3. 3.
    white cord in neckclassical

    A white cord inside the neck that runs along the spine.

وهو الخيط الأبيض، الذي في جوف الفقار، زاد غيره ينحدر من الدماغ، وتتشعب منه شعب في الجسم — It is the white thread, which is in the cavity of the vertebrae, others added: descending from the brain, and from it branch out parts into the body.
ويقال: هو عرق أبيض في داخل العنق، ينقاد في فقار الصلب، حتى يبلغ عجب الذنب، وهو يسقي العظام — And it is said: it is a white vein inside the neck, extending through the vertebrae of the spine, until it reaches the coccyx, and it nourishes the bones.
وقال ابن الأعرابي: النخاع: خيط أبيض يكون داخل عظم الرقبة، ويكون ممتدا إلى الصلب، ويقال له: خيط الرقبة — And Ibn al-A'rabi said: 'Al-nukha': is a white thread inside the neck bone, extending to the spine, and it is called the neck thread.
أَنْخَعَverb
  1. 1.
    to be most offensiveclassical

    To be the most hated or offensive, particularly in the context of names.

إن أنخع الأسماء عند الله أن يتسمى الرجل باسم ملك الأملاك — The most offensive of names to God is for a man to name himself 'King of Kings'.
المُنْخَعnoun
  1. 1.
    joint between head and neckclassical

    The joint of the 'fahqah' (a part of the neck) between the neck and the head, from the inside.

وهو مفصل الفهقة بين العنق والرأس من باطن — It is the joint of the 'fahqah' between the neck and the head from the inside.
يَنْخَعُverb
  1. 1.
    to be a valleyclassical

    To be a valley or a low-lying area.

وينخع كيمنع: وادٍ — And 'yankha'u' like 'yamna'u': a valley.
فَرِحَverb
  1. 1.
    to flow (water in wood)classical

    For water to flow within the stem or wood of a plant.

ونخع العود، كفرح: جرى فيه الماء — And 'nakha'a' the stem, like 'fariha': water flowed in it.
تَنَخَّعَverb
  1. 1.
    to spit out (rain)classical

    For clouds to expel their rain.

تنخع في جواشنها السحاب — The clouds spat out in their bellies (i.e., rained heavily).
انْتَخَعَverb
  1. 1.
    to spit out (rain)classical

    For clouds to expel their rain.

  2. 2.
    to move far awayclassical

    For a person to move far away from their land.

انتخع السحاب: قاء ما فيه من المطر، كتنخع — The clouds expelled their rain, like 'tanakha'a'.
انتخع الرجل عن أرضه: بعد عنها — The man moved far away from his land.
مَنْخُوعَةadjective
  1. 1.
    watered (plant)classical

    A plant in whose stem water flows.

  2. 2.
    pierced (animal)classical

    An animal whose spinal cord has been cut during slaughter.

وأرض منخوعة: جرى الماء في عود نبتها — And a 'mankhu'ah' land: water flowed in the stem of its plants.
ودابة منخوعة: جووز بالذبح إلى نخاعها — And a 'mankhu'ah' animal: its spinal cord was reached by slaughter.
نَخَعَ الأرضverb
  1. 1.
    to cultivate landclassical

    To make land fertile and productive.

نخع الأرض: عمرها — He cultivated the land.

Parallel reading

نخع لي فلان بحقي، كمنعض نخوعا، أي: أقر وأذعن
So-and-so acknowledged and submitted to me regarding my right, like someone who acknowledges, meaning: he admitted and submitted.
نخع الشاة ينخعها نخعا: سلخها ثم وجأها في نحرها ليخرج دم القلب
He skinned the sheep and then pierced its neck to let out the heart's blood.
نخعها نخعا: قطع نخاعها
He cut its spinal cord.
ألا لا تنخعوا الذبيحة حتى تجب
Do not pierce the slaughtered animal until it is still.
وذلك إذا عجل الذابح فأصاب القطع إلى النخاع
And that is when the slaughterer hastens and cuts into the spinal cord.
نخع فلانا الودذ والنصيحة: أخلصهما له
He offered him sincerity and advice wholeheartedly.
والناخع: العالم وقيل: هو المبين للأمور، وقيل: هو الذي قتل الأمر علما
And 'al-nakhi': the knower, and it is said: he is the clarifier of matters, and it is said: he is the one who definitively understood the matter through knowledge.
والنخاعة، بالضم: النخامة
And 'al-nukha'ah', with damma: phlegm.
وقد جاء في الحديث: النخضاعة في المسجد خطيئة
And it has come in the hadith: 'Spitting in the mosque is a sin'.
وهو الخيط الأبيض، الذي في جوف الفقار، زاد غيره ينحدر من الدماغ
It is the white thread, which is in the cavity of the vertebrae, others added: descending from the brain.
ألا ذهب الخداع فلا خداعا ... وأبدى السيف عن طبق نخاعا
Indeed, deception is gone, so there is no deception... and the sword revealed a marrow-like substance from the plate.
وهو يسقي العظام
And it nourishes the bones.
إن أنخع الأسماء عند الله أن يتسمى الرجل باسم ملك الأملاك
The most offensive of names to God is for a man to name himself 'King of Kings'.