نِقَابٌ
Root: نقب
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نِقَابٌ
[A woman's face-veil;] a veil that is upon [or covers] the soft, or pliable, part of the nose; [not extending higher:] a woman's veil that extends as high as the circuit of the eye: it is of different modes: Fr says, When a woman lowers her نقاب to her eye, it [the action] is termed وَصْوَصَةٌ; and when she lowers it further, to [the lower part of] the circuit of the eye, it [the veil] is called نقاب; and if it is on the extremity of the nose, it is [properly] called لِفَامٌ: the نقاب, with the Arabs, is that [kind of veil] from out of which appears the circuit of the eye: and the meaning of the saying in a trad. النِّقَابُ مُحْدَثٌ is, that women's shewing the circuits of the eyes is an innovation; not that they used not to veil their faces: the [kind of] نقاب which they used reached close to the eye, and they showed one eye while the other was concealed; whereas the [kind of] نقاب, which only shows both the eyes [without their circuits] was called by them وَصْوَصَةٌ [a mistake for وَصْوَاصٌ] and تُرْقُعٌ: [in the original, والنقاب لا يبدومنه الّا
العينان وكان اسمه الخ: but the و before كان is erroneously introduced, and perverts the sense, which is otherwise plain, and agreeable with what is said before:] then they innovated the [veil] properly called] نقاب: pl. نَقُبٌ.
def.2 نِقَابٌ and A road through a rugged tract of ground: the former word used both as a sing and a pl.
def.3 نِقَابٌ
def.4 نقَابٌ The bello, Hence the proverb, فَرْخَانِ فِى نِقَابٍ [Two young birds in one belly]: applied to two things that resemble one another, In like manner one says كَانَا فِى نقاب وَاحد [They were in one belly]; meaning they were like each other,
def.2 نِقَابٌ and A road through a rugged tract of ground: the former word used both as a sing and a pl.
def.3 نِقَابٌ
def.4 نقَابٌ The bello, Hence the proverb, فَرْخَانِ فِى نِقَابٍ [Two young birds in one belly]: applied to two things that resemble one another, In like manner one says كَانَا فِى نقاب وَاحد [They were in one belly]; meaning they were like each other,
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