نُصُبٌ
Root: نصب
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نُصُبٌ
: see نَصْبٌ.
2 نُصُبٌ and (K: accord. to the S, the latter is sometimes written نُصُبٌ: [but it seems that نُصُبٌ is the more common of the two words:]) and نَصْبٌ What is set up and worshipped to the exclusion of, or in preference to, the true God: or anything that is so worshipped: or a stone that is set up and so worshipped: the pl. of نُصُبٌ is أَنْصَابٌ: or نُصُبٌ is a pl. of نَصْبٌ, like as سُقُفٌ is of سَقْفٌ: or it is a pl. of which the sing. is نِصَابٌ; and it may be a sing., the pl. of which is أَنْصَابٌ: which last word, accord. to some, is syn. with أَصْنَامٌ: but others deny this; because اصنام are figured and sculptured or painted; whereas انصاب are of an opposite description. [See a verse cited in art. مور.]
3 Also, الأَنْصَابُ Certain stones which were set up around the Kaabeh, over which it was customary for the name of some deity to be pronounced in the killing of animals (يُهَلُّ عَلَيْهَا), and upon which victims were slain in sacrifice to another, or others, than the true God: pl. of نُصُبٌ, as أَعْنَاقٌ is of عُنُقٌ; or of نُصْبق, as أَقْفَالٌ is of قُفْلٌ.
4 نُصُبٌ, as occurring in the Kur, v. 4, signifies An idol; or a stone which the pagan Arabs set up, to sacrifice, or slay animals, before it, or by it, and which became red with the blood: or pl. of نِصَابٌ, and signifying idols.
5 أَنْصَابُ الحَرَمِ The limits of the sacred territory [of Mekkeh]; i. e., signs, or marks, set up there, whereby it might be known. See also نَصْبٌ.
2 نُصُبٌ and (K: accord. to the S, the latter is sometimes written نُصُبٌ: [but it seems that نُصُبٌ is the more common of the two words:]) and نَصْبٌ What is set up and worshipped to the exclusion of, or in preference to, the true God: or anything that is so worshipped: or a stone that is set up and so worshipped: the pl. of نُصُبٌ is أَنْصَابٌ: or نُصُبٌ is a pl. of نَصْبٌ, like as سُقُفٌ is of سَقْفٌ: or it is a pl. of which the sing. is نِصَابٌ; and it may be a sing., the pl. of which is أَنْصَابٌ: which last word, accord. to some, is syn. with أَصْنَامٌ: but others deny this; because اصنام are figured and sculptured or painted; whereas انصاب are of an opposite description. [See a verse cited in art. مور.]
3 Also, الأَنْصَابُ Certain stones which were set up around the Kaabeh, over which it was customary for the name of some deity to be pronounced in the killing of animals (يُهَلُّ عَلَيْهَا), and upon which victims were slain in sacrifice to another, or others, than the true God: pl. of نُصُبٌ, as أَعْنَاقٌ is of عُنُقٌ; or of نُصْبق, as أَقْفَالٌ is of قُفْلٌ.
4 نُصُبٌ, as occurring in the Kur, v. 4, signifies An idol; or a stone which the pagan Arabs set up, to sacrifice, or slay animals, before it, or by it, and which became red with the blood: or pl. of نِصَابٌ, and signifying idols.
5 أَنْصَابُ الحَرَمِ The limits of the sacred territory [of Mekkeh]; i. e., signs, or marks, set up there, whereby it might be known. See also نَصْبٌ.
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