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نَبِيثٌ

Root: نبث

Full Definition

نَبِيثٌ The dust that an animal digs up with its feet in running.
2 نَبِيثَةٌ and نَبِيثٌ and نَبَثٌ The dust, or earth, that is taken forth, or dug out, from a well or a river: pl. of the first, نَبَائِثُ.
3 نَبِيثٌ and مَنْبُوثٌ Earth, or dust, taken forth, or dug out, from a well or a river.
4 سَبُعٍ Flesh-meat buried by a beast of prey against the time of want.

def.2 نَبِيثٌ A species of sea-fish; accord. to IAar; but it is also said, on his authority, that it is called يَنْبِيثٌ; therefore it seems that one of these two words is a mistake for the other, or that they are two dial. forms. See also بَيْنِيثٌ, in art. بنث.

def.3 خَبِيثٌ نَبِيثٌ Very bad, evil, wicked, or corrupt: applied to a man: the latter word is an imitation sequent to the former.

def.4 أَبْدَى نَبِيثَةَ القَوْمِ, and نَبَائِثَهُمْ, [He revealed the elicited secret of the people, and their elicited secrets].
2 بَيْنَهُمْ شَحْنَآءُ وَنَبَائِثُ [Between them are enmity and secrets elicited].
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