ناب

نَابَ • (nāba) I, non-past يَنُوبُ‎‎ (yanūbu)

1. to replace, to substitute [+ عَن‎ (object)]
2. to act on behalf of, to represent [+ عَن‎ (object)]
3. to nod assent to, to agree with, to turn towards [+ إِلَى‎ (object)]

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From Aramaic ניב‎ (nīḇ, “fang, tusk; pincer”) unless otherwise a Proto-Semitic development, potentially an extension from Akkadian 𒉏𒋭 (nūbtu, “honeybee; stringers”), hence sharp things that pierce in and do not release like a predator's use of canine teeth. The sense "aged female camel" makes reference to the length of the female camel's permanent canine teeth, which begin to emerge around 7 years of age. It belongs morphologically to the root ن ي ب‎ (n-y-b), with connections to نُوب‎ (nūb, “bees”), Ugaritic 𐎐𐎁𐎚 (nbt, “honey”), Phoenician 𐤍𐤐𐤕‎ (npt, “virgin honey”), Ge'ez ንህብ (nəhb, “bee, drone”), and Shehri nibbet (“bee, wasp, stinging insect”).

نَاب • (nāb) m (plural أَنْيَاب‎ (ʔanyāb) or نُيُوب‎ (nuyūb) or أَنَايِيب‎ (ʔanāyīb) or أَنْيُب‎ (ʔanyub))

1. fang, tusk
   • 10th century, Al-Mutanabbi

     ‏إِذَا رَأَيْتَ نُيُوبَ ٱللَّيْثِ بَارِزَةً
     فَلَا تَظُنَّنَّ أَنَّ ٱللَّيْثَ يَبْتَسِمُ‎‎

     ʔiḏā raʔayta nuyūba l-layṯi bārizatan
     fa-lā taẓunnanna ʔanna l-layṯa yabtasimu

     If you see the lion’s fangs jut out,
     you are not supposed to believe that the lion smiles!

2. canine tooth
3. large teeth, long thick teeth

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• Maltese: nejba
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نَاب • (nāb) m (plural أَنْيَاب‎ (ʔanyāb) or نُيُوب‎ (nuyūb) or نِيب‎ (nīb))

1. old she-camel

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Derived from the active participle of نَبَا‎ (nabā, “to be or go amiss”).

نَابٍ • (nābin) (construct state نَابِي‎ (nābī))

1. not on target
2. dislikable, hideous
   • 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل‎ [wajdiyy al-ʔahdal], أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, page 115:

     ‏كان يصرخ بشتائم نابية زلزلت جدران القسم.‎‎

     He exclaimed shabby insults making the walls of the department tremble.

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• Freytag, Georg (1837), “ناب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 348
• Freytag, Georg (1837), “ناب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 357
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ناب”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1362
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ناب”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1375
• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887), “ناب”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 965
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ناب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1324
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ناب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1333
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020), “ناب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 894

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• IPA^(key): /naːb/

ناب • (nāb) m (plural نياب‎ (nyāb))

1. canine tooth

From Middle Persian *anāb (“undiluted, pure”).

ناب • (nâb)

1. pure
2. undiluted
3. unalloyed