نَشِبَ

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نَشِبَI , Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun نُشُوبٌ and نَشَبٌ (K, accord. to TA, &c: in the CK نَشْبٌ:) and نُشْبَةٌ; and [and تنشّب , q. v.]; The thing stuck fast in the thing. نَشِبَ العَظْمُ فِيهِ The bone stuck fast in him, or it; would not pass through.
2 نَشِبَ, Present.T ـَ Verbal.Noun نَشَبٌ, It became caught, or entangled, فِى شَىْءٍ in a thing; as game in a net, or snare.
3 اشْتَرَيْتُ سِمْسِمًا فَنَشِبَ فِيهِ رَجُلٌ [I bought some sesame, and a man seized it, or laid hold upon it, for himself].
4 نَشِبَتِ الحَرْبُ بَيْنَهُمْ, Verbal.Noun نُشُوبٌ, The war, or fight, became intricate and entangled (اشتبكت), between them.
5 مَا نَشِبْتُ أَفْعَلُ كَذَا I ceased not to do so.
6 مَا نَشِبْتُ أَقُولُهُ like مَا عَلِقْتُ I did not cease saying it.
7 لَمْ يَنْشَبْ أَنْ فَعَلَ كَذَا He did not delay to do so; [he did so without delay].
8 لَمْ يَنْشَبْ وَرَقَةُ أَنْ مَاتَ Warakah delayed not to die; [died without delay, or immediately;] lit., did not cling to anything else. Occurring in a trad.
9 نَشِبَهُ الأَمْرُ The thing was incumbent upon him: syn. لَزِمَهُ.

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