نبع

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
ن ب ع (n b ʕ)
2 terms

Cognate with Hebrew נבע (nɔḇaʕ, navá).

Pronunciation

Verb

نَبَعَ (nabaʕa) I (non-past يَنْبُعُ (yanbuʕu) or يَنْبِعُ (yanbiʕu) or يَنْبَعُ (yanbaʕu), verbal noun نُبُوع (nubūʕ) or نَبَعَان (nabaʕān) or نَبْع (nabʕ))

  1. to flow
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Verb

نبع (form I)

  1. نَبِعْ (nabiʕ) /na.biʕ/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of بَاعَ (bāʕa)
  2. نُبَعْ (nubaʕ) /nu.baʕ/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of بَاعَ (bāʕa)

References

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “نبع”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 1097
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “نبع”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1103