نقي

Root entry · 10 derived lemmas

This root primarily relates to purity, cleanness, and refinement, often in a physical sense. It extends to concepts of selecting the best, a clear path, and even specific locations and a type of bread.

Derived headwords

النقيةnoun

1.
wordclassical
A word, specifically a true or honest word.

النقيnoun

1.
breadclassical
A type of fine, white bread, often described as pure or unadulterated.

يحشر الناس يوم القيامة على أرض بيضاء كقرصة النقي — People will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection on a white land like a piece of pure bread.

المنقىnoun

1.
pathboth
A road or path, possibly a specific route known to Arabs.
2.
placeclassical
A location or area, specifically a place between Uhud and Medina.

فكم بين الأقارع فالمنقى إلى أحد إلى ميقات ريم — How far it is between Al-Aqari' and Al-Munqa, to Uhud, to the Miqat of Raym.

نقياname

1.
place nameclassical
A town located in Anbar, part of the Sawad of Baghdad.

بانقياname

1.
place nameclassical
A town on the bank of the Euphrates in Kufa, considered sacred by Jews.
2.
region nameclassical
A district near Manbij.

فما نيل مصر إذ تسامى عبابه ولا بحر بانقيا إذا راح مفعما — Not the Nile of Egypt when its waves rise, nor the sea of Banqiya when it flows full.

لقيتهverb

1.
to meetclassical
To meet someone; this is presented as a variant or dialectal pronunciation of 'laqaytuhu'.

نقيتverb

1.
to extractclassical
To extract or remove impurities, to refine.

المدينة كالكير تنقي خبثها — Medina is like a furnace, extracting its impurities.

النقيnoun

1.
titleclassical
A title given to a group of Alids (descendants of Ali) and also to Abbas bin Al-Walid bin Abdul Malik Al-Ghafiqi.

النقيةname

1.
village nameclassical
A village in Bahrain belonging to the Bani Amer bin Abdul Qais tribe.

نقيname

1.
place nameclassical
A location mentioned by Yaqut.

Parallel reading

سمعت نقية حق ونغية حق،، أي كلمة حق.

I heard a true word and a true word, meaning a word of truth.

يحشر الناس يوم القيامة على أرض بيضاء كقرصة النقي

People will be gathered on the Day of Resurrection on a white land like a piece of pure bread.

يطعم الناس إذا أمحلوا من نقي فوقه أدمه

He feeds people when they are in drought with pure bread, over which is its fat.

ظاهره أنه اسم لمطلق الطريق

Its apparent meaning is that it is a name for any road.

بل هو طريق للعرب إلى الشام كان في الجاهلية يسكنه أهل تهامة

Rather, it is a road for the Arabs to the Levant, which the people of Tihama inhabited in the pre-Islamic era.

وقد كان الناس انهزموا عن رسول اللها، صلى الله عليه وسلم يوم أحد حتى انتهى بعضهم إلى المنقى دون الأعوص

And the people had fled from the Messenger of God, peace be upon him, on the day of Uhud until some of them reached Al-Munqa, short of Al-A'was.

فكم بين الأقارع فالمنقى إلى أحد إلى ميقات ريم

How far it is between Al-Aqari' and Al-Munqa, to Uhud, to the Miqat of Raym.

ة بالأنبار بالسواد من بغداد

A town in Anbar, in the Sawad of Baghdad.

يقال نزل بها سيدنا إبراهيم، عليه السلام

It is said that our master Abraham, peace be upon him, descended there.

فما نيل مصر إذ تسامى عبابه ولا بحر بانقيا إذا راح مفعما

Not the Nile of Egypt when its waves rise, nor the sea of Banqiya when it flows full.

قد سرت ما بين بانقيا إلى عدن وطال في العجم تكراري وتسياري

I have traveled between Banqiya and Aden, and my repetitions and journeys among the non-Arabs have been long.

أرقت ببانقيا ومن يلق مثل ما لقيت ببانقيا من الحرب يأرق

I stayed awake in Banqiya, and whoever encounters what I encountered in Banqiya from war will not sleep.

نقيت العظم نقيا لغة في نقوت

I extracted the bone, 'naqiyan', a variant pronunciation of 'naqawtuhu'.

المدينة كالكير تنقي خبثها

Medina is like a furnace, extracting its impurities.