نَاشِبٌ
Root: نشب
Full Definition
2 Possessing arrows. A word of the same kind as لَابِنٌ and تَامِرٌ: after the manner of a relative noun; having no corresponding verb from which to be formed. قَوْمٌ نَاشِبَةٌ [A people, or party, possessing arrows].
3 Also, قَوْمٌ نَاشِبَةٌ, and , A people shooting, or who shoot, arrows.
4 نَاشِبَةُ المَحَالِ The pulley that sticks fast, or will not run. A poet says,
[And those, the sons of 'Adee, fell short of what they should do, or delayed: and I wonder at the pulley that sticks fast, and will not run!] He compares them, in their holding back from aiding them, [see art. الو,] to the pulley that will not run. So explained by IAar, and the L. In the K explained imperfectly.وَتِلْكَ بَنُو عَدِىٍّ قَدْ تَأَلَّوْا فَيَا عَجَبًا لِنَاشِبَةِ المَحَالِ
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