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نَصَبَ

Root: نصب

Form: 1

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نَصَبَI , Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun نَصْبٌ; and نصّب ; He set up, put up, set upright, erected, a thing: he elevated, raised, reared, a thing.
2 He set up, a stone as a sign, or mark.
3 نَصَبَ رَأْسَهُ He raised his head.
4 نَصِبَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun نَصَبٌ, He had erect ears.
5 نَصَبْتُ فُلاَنًا لِكَذَا I set, or set up, such a one as an obstacle to such a thing, or as a butt for such a thing, like the butt of archers. (TA, art. عرض.)
6 نُصِبَ فُلَانٌ لِعِمَارَةِ البَلَدِ [Such a one was set up, or appointed, for the putting, or keeping, of the town, or district, in a flourishing or prosperous state, with respect to building, culture, population, &c.].
7 نَصَبَ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun نَصْبٌ, or نَصَبَ نَصْبَ العَرَبِ, He sang, or chanted, a kind of song, or chant, peculiar to the Arabs, of the description termed حُدَاء, [by which camels are urged, or excited,] or a kind of song resembling what is thus termed, but finer, or more delicate. What is termed نَصْبٌ is The kind of singing, or chanting, above described: or a kind of حُدَاء resembling singing: or a kind of modulation: or a kind of song, or chant, of the Arabs: or, of the Arabs of the desert: or poetry such as is commonly recited, well regulated and set to an air: so called because, in [singing or chanting] it, the voice is raised, or elevated.
8 نَصَبَ الحَرْفَ, [Present.T ـِ (not ـُ) Verbal.Noun نَصْبٌ,] He wrote, or pronounced, the [final] letter with نَصْب; which is, in the case of the final inflection of a word, like فَتْح in the non-inflection: [i. e., he wrote it, or pronounced it, with نَصَبَ or ـَ:) so called because the sound of a word of which the final letter is so pronounced rises to the highest cavity of the mouth. A conv. term of grammar. نَصَبَ الكَلِمَةَ [He wrote, or pronounced, the word with نَصْب, i. e., making its vowel of inflection نَصَبَ ـَ &c., according to the rules of grammar:] he made the word to have fet-hah as its vowel of inflection.
9 نَصَبَ لَه الحَرْبَ, (Verbal.Noun نَصْبٌ, TA,) He made war upon him: syn. وَضَعَ.
10 Of anything that is raised, and with which one goes to meet, or encounter, a thing, one says نُصِبَ, and of the agent, نَصَبَ.
11 نَصَبَ لَهُ, Present.T ـُ Verbal.Noun نَصْبٌ, He acted with hostility, or enmity, towards him. See also 3.
12 نَصَبْتُ لَهُ رَأْيًا I gave him counsel from which he should not deviate.
13 نَصَبَ, Present.T ـُ (Verbal.Noun نَصْبٌ, TA,) He put down a thing: syn. وَضَعَ. Thus the verb bears two contr. significations.
14 [He set, or put, absolutely: often used in this sense.]
15 نَصَبَهُ, Present.T ـِ; and انصبه , (Verbal.Noun إِنْصَابٌ, TA,) It pained him; occasioned him pain.
16 نَصَبَ السَّيْرَ, Present.T ـُ (Verbal.Noun نَصْبٌ, TA,) He strove, or exerted himself, unusually in his pace: or نَصَبَ signifies he pursued his journey with diligence, or energy: or he travelled on all the day, at a gentle pace: or he journeyed on all the night. En-Nadr says, النَّصْبُ is the first pace; then, الدَّبَبُ, [but see وَسَجَ;] then, العَنَقُ; then, التَّزَيُّدُ; then, العَسْجُ; then, الرَّتْكُ; then, الوَخْدُ; then, الهَمْلَجَةُ.

def.2 نَصِبَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun نَصَبٌ, He was fatigued, tired, or wearied,
2 نَصِبَ, Verbal.Noun نَصَبٌ, He suffered difficulty, trouble, distress, or affliction.
3 نَصِبَ He strove; laboured; or toiled.
4 فَإِذَا فَرَغْتَ فَٱنْصَبْ [Kur, xciv. 7,] signifies And when thou shalt have finished thy prescribed prayers, fatigue thyself in supplication: or when thou shalt have finished the obligatory prayers, fatigue thyself in the performance of the voluntary. See نَاصِبٌ.


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