نَصِيبَةٌ
Root: نصب
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نَصِيبَةٌ
, or نَصَائِبُ, which latter is the pl. of the former, Stones which are set up around a tank, or cistern, and the interstices of which are filled up with kneaded clay. Dhu-r-Rummeh says,
2 نَصَائِبُ is also explained by A'Obeyd as signifying Stones that are set up around a tank, or cistern, to mark the quantity of water with which the camels will be satisfied. See نَصْبٌ.
[We poured it out into an old cistern of which the water was dried up and the bottom apparent, which for a long time had contained no water, the stones set up around which, having their interstices filled up mith kneaded clay, were black and white]. The pron. in هرقناه refers to a large bucket mentioned before.هَرَقْنَاهُ فِى بَادِى النَّشِيْئَةِ داثِرٍ قَدِيمٍ بِعَهْدِ المَآءِ بُقْعٍ نَصَائِبُهْ
2 نَصَائِبُ is also explained by A'Obeyd as signifying Stones that are set up around a tank, or cistern, to mark the quantity of water with which the camels will be satisfied. See نَصْبٌ.
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