نُشْبَةً

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نُشْبَةً I was once such that, when I clung to a man, he experienced evil from me; but now I have reverted from being such through weakness. [See also art. عقب.] A proverb. Said by El-Hárith Ibn-Bedr El-Ghudánee. Applied in the case of him who has become abased after having been great or powerful. MF observes, that نشبة as syn. with عَلِقٌ is properly written نَشَبَةٌ ; and that it is altered here to assimilate it to عُقْبَة: but it will be seen that نُشْبَةٌ is explained in the K, in another instance in this art. in a sense suitable to it in this proverb.
2 نُشْبَةٌ [A holdfast. And hence,] A man who, when he is involved, or engaged, in an affair, can scarcely be extricated, or disengaged, from it; or who is unable to accomplish it: one who, when charged with, or accused of, a vice, or fault, or the like, will scarcely forsake it. [See an explanation of a verse cited voce عُصْبٌ.]

def.2 نُشْبَةُ a proper name of The wolf. Imperfectly declinable.

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