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نَاصِبٌ

Root: نصب

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نَاصِبٌ i. q. مُنْصِبٌ, Grief, or anxiety, that fatigues, tires, or wearies: after the manner of a rel. n.: meaning ذُو نَصَبٍ; like تَامِرٌ and لَابِنٌ: or ناصب is here an act. part. n. used in the sense of the pass. part. n. [مَنْصُوبٌ] followed by فِيهِ; i. e. يُنْصَبُ فِيهِ, in which one is fatigued, tired, or wearied; like لَيْلٌ نَائِمٌ, meaning يُنَامُ فِيهِ, &c.: or the phrase نَصَبَهُ الهَمُّ, in the sense of أَتْعَبَهُ, has been heard; and ناصب is its act. part. n.
2 نَصَبٌ نَاصِبٌ is also said to be a phrase of the same kind as مَوْتٌ مَائِتٌ, and شِعْرٌ شَاعِرٌ; [therefore meaning Severe fatigue, or difficulty, or trouble, and the like].
3 Also عَيْشٌ نَاصِبٌ, and ذُو , A fatiguing, laborious, or troublesome, life.
4 النَّوَاصِبُ, and النَّاصِبِيَّةُ , and أَهْلُ النَّصْبِ, Appellations of a sect who made it a matter of religious obligation to bear a violent hatred to 'Alee the son of Aboo-Tálib: [so called] لِأَنَّهُمْ نَصَبُوا لَهُ because they acted with hostility, or enmity, towards him, and openly opposed him: they were a sect of the Khawárij, الخَوَارِجُ.


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