ن ق ب

Arabic

Root

ن ق ب • (n-q-b)

1. related to penetration

Derived terms

• Form I: نَقَبَ (naqaba, “to dig, to grave, to bore into”)
  • Verbal noun: نَقْب (naqb)
  • Active participle: نَاقِب (nāqib)
  • Passive participle: مَنْقُوب (manqūb)
• Form I: نَقِبَ (naqiba, “to teem in holes, to be gappy”)
  • Verbal noun: نَقَب (naqab)
  • Active participle: ?
  • Passive participle: مَنْقُوب (manqūb)
• Form I: نَقُبَ (naquba, “to become a leader”)
  • Verbal noun: نَقَابَة (naqāba)
  • Active participle: ?
  • Passive participle: مَنْقُوب (manqūb)
• Form II: نَقَّبَ (naqqaba, “to dig up, to rummage thoroughly”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنْقِيب (tanqīb)
  • Active participle: مُنَقِّب (munaqqib)
  • Passive participle: مُنَقَّب (munaqqab)
• Form III: نَاقَبَ (nāqaba, “to come unexpected upon; to vie with in virtues”)
  • Verbal noun: مُنَاقَبَة (munāqaba)
  • Active participle: مُنَاقِب (munāqib)
  • Passive participle: مُنَاقَب (munāqab)
• Form V: تَنَقَّبَ (tanaqqaba, “to investigate thoroughly, to scour; to veil oneself; to be gappy, to be full of holes”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنَقُّب (tanaqqub)
  • Active participle: مُتَنَقِّب (mutanaqqib)
  • Passive participle: مُتَنَقَّب (mutanaqqab)
• Form VIII: اِنْتَقَبَ (intaqaba, “to veil oneself”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْتِقَاب (intiqāb)
  • Active participle: مُنْتَقِب (muntaqib)

• نِقَاب (niqāb, “veil”)
• نُقْبَة (nuqba, “kilt”)
• نُقْبَة (nuqba) or نَقْبَة (naqba, “breach, aperture”)
• نِقْبَة (niqba, “mode of covering the face”)
• نِقَابَة (niqāba, “association”)
• مَنْقِب (manqib) and مَنْقَب (manqab) and مَنْقَبَة (manqaba, “pass, mountain path, col; station where one stops”)
• مِنْقَب (minqab) and مِنْقَبَة (minqaba, “trephine, or a similar instrument for making holes”)
• مَنْقَبَة (manqaba, “virtue”)
• نَاقِبَة (nāqiba, “a kind of ulcerous disease”)
• نَقَّاب (naqqāb, “anything that makes holes much; punch; miner”)
• نَقِيب (naqīb, “leader, captain”)
• نَقِيبَة (naqība, “mind, spirit, natural disposition”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ن ق ب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 707–708
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن ق ب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 318–319
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ن ق ب”, 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^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1318–1320
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ن ق ب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2833–2855
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ن ق ب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1302–1303