نخرب

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Arabic

Etymology

From نَخَرَ (naḵara) or from خَرَبَ (ḵaraba) or from both combined.

Verb

نَخْرَبَ (naḵraba) Iq (non-past يُنَخْرِبُ (yunaḵribu), verbal noun نَخْرَبَة (naḵraba))

  1. (transitive) to gnaw, to eat into, to consume
  2. (transitive) to subvert, to undermine, to blow up, to spoil

Conjugation

References

  • نخرب” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نخرب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 255
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “نخرب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2777
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “نخرب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1255