Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

أَنْبُوشٌ

Root: نبش

Full Definition

أَنْبُوشٌ A thing that is taken, drawn, or pulled, out, or forth: the lower part of leguminous plants taken, drawn, or pulled, out, or forth: or trees pulled out by the trunk and roots: as also أُنْبُوشَةٌ : or ↓ both signify what is torn out by the rain: pl. أَنَابِيشُ, the pl. of both the above words.
2 Also, Full-grown unripe dates that are pierced with thorns in order that they may ripen.
3 And the pl. signifies Small arrows. Some say that this pl. has no singular.


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