نوبة

Verbal noun of the verb نَابَ‎ (nāba, “to afflict, to occur”). The sense of a troupe of musicians is probably a semantic loan from Ottoman Turkish نوبت‎ (nevbet, nöbet).

نَوْبَة • (nawba) f (plural نَوْبَات‎ (nawbāt) or نُوَب‎ (nuwab))

1. change, alteration, shift, rotation
2. turn (one’s turn)
3. time, instance, case, occasion
4. fit, paroxysm, attack
5. crisis
6. change of the guard, guard duty
   • 1835, كتاب القوانين الداخلية المتعلق بمشاة عساكر الجهادية, قانون ٣٤٠, page 80:

     ‏ضباط الصف والأنفار الذين بصدد الخروج من القشلة يشرع كل واحد منهم في لبس قيافته المقننة بعد ضرب نوبة الجمعية.‎‎

     Field officers and units which are about to leave the barracks are required each one to wear the prescribed apparel after taking up joint guard duty.

7. bugle call
8. (Syria) troupe of musicians, small native orchestra

   Synonyms: جَوْقَة‎ (jawqa), فِرْقَة‎ (firqa)

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• Maltese: newba
• → Middle Armenian: նոպայ (nopay)
  • → Armenian: նոպա (nopa)
• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܢܵܘܒܵܐ‎ (nāwbā)
• → French: nouba
• → Persian: نوبت‎ (nowbat), نوبه‎ (nowbe)
  • → Azerbaijani:

    Cyrillic script: нөвбә, нөвбәт

    Latin script: növbə, növbət

  • → Bengali: নওবৎ (noōbot)
  • → Old Hindi:
    • Hindi: नौबत (naubat)
    • Urdu: نوبت‎ (naubat)
  • → Kazakh:

    Arabic script: ناۋبەت‎

    Cyrillic script: нәубет (näubet)

  • → Ottoman Turkish: نوبت‎ (nevbet, nöbet)
    • Turkish: nöbet
    • → Armenian: նէօպէթ (nēōpētʿ)
    • → Georgian: ნობეთი (nobeti) — Chveneburi
    • → Laz: ნობეთი (nobeti)
  • → Punjabi: نَوْبَت‎ (naubat)
  • → Russian: наба́т (nabát)
  • → Sindhi: نوبت‎
  • → Punjabi: نَوْبَت‎ (naubat)
  • → Russian: наба́т (nabát)
  • → Sindhi: نوبت‎
  • → Tatar: нәүбәт (näwbät)
  • → Uzbek:

    Cyrillic script: навбат (navbat)

    Latin script: navbat

نُوبَة • (nūba) f (plural نُوَب‎ (nuwab))

1. misfortune, calamity, mishap, misadventure, accident, reversal
2. a musical suite in Arabic music, particularly in the Andalusian tradition as well as elsewhere in the Maghreb

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

نُوبَة • (nūba) f

1. only used in النُّوبَة‎ (an-nūba, “Nubia”)

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “نوبة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN