نضو

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Arabic

Root
ن ض و (n ḍ w)
2 terms

Pronunciation

Noun

نَضْو (naḍwm

  1. verbal noun of نَضَا (naḍā) (form I)

Declension

Noun

نَضْو (naḍwm (plural أَنْضَاء (ʔanḍāʔ))

  1. ragged-up piece of cloth, tatter, tog, shabby raiment

Declension

Adjective

نِضْو (niḍw) (masculine plural أَنْضَاء (ʔanḍāʔ))

  1. meagre, scrawny

Declension

Noun

نِضْو (niḍwm (plural أَنْضَاء (ʔanḍāʔ))

  1. arrow-shaft
    • 7th century CE, Sunan Abī Dāwud, 1:36:
      إِنْ كَانَ أَحَدُنَا فِي زَمَنِ رَسُولِ اللّٰهِ صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لَيَأْخُذُ نِضْوَ أَخِيهِ عَلَى أَنَّ لَهُ النِّصْفَ مِمَّا يَغْنَمُ وَلَنَا النِّصْفُ وَإِنْ كَانَ أَحَدُنَا لَيَطِيرُ لَهُ النَّصْلُ وَٱلرِّيشُ وَلِلْآخَرِ الْقَدَحُ.
      ʔin kāna ʔaḥadunā fī zamani rasūli llāhi ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wasallama layaʔḵuḏu niḍwa ʔaḵīhi ʕalā ʔanna lahu n-niṣfa mimmā yaḡnamu walanā n-niṣfu waʔin kāna ʔaḥadunā layaṭīru lahu n-naṣlu war-rīšu walilʔāḵari l-qadaḥu.
      Any one of us would borrow a camel during the lifetime of the Prophet (ﷺ) from the other, on condition that he would give him half the booty, and the other half he would retain himself. Further, one of us received, so it flies, an arrowhead and a feather, and the other the arrow-shaft.
  2. decrepit camel

Declension

References

  • نضو” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نضو”, 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 294
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “نضو”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1282