ن ش ب

Derived from the Aramaic borrowing نُشْبَة (nušba, “snare”), for which reason نُشْبَة (nušba) was retained as a verbal noun of the denominal base stem. Then from its meanings of “sticking” a figurative sense of “meddling, entangling” into an affair developed, lastly this was transferred to the current most common sense of a matter getting hot and breaking out. A side sense development rather emphasized gathering things, until نَشَب (našab) meant “wealth, property, fortune” (rather than because one sticks to it), hence another base stem “to yield, to produce”.

نُشَّاب (nuššāb), نُشَاب (nušāb, “arrow”) is a separate borrowing from Aramaic, from which the occupational noun نَشَّاب (naššāb, “archer”) was formed.

ن ش ب • (n-š-b)

1. Related to sticking, entanglement

• Form I: نَشِبَ (našiba)
  • Verbal noun: نَشْب (našb), نُشُوب (nušūb), نُشْبَة (nušba)
  • Active participle: ?
• Form I: نَشَبَ (našaba, “to begin”)
  • Verbal noun: نَشْب (našb)
  • Active participle: نَاشِب (nāšib)
  • Passive participle: مَنْشُوب (manšūb)
• Form II: نَشَّبَ (naššaba, “to make stick”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنْشِيب (tanšīb)
  • Active participle: مُنَشِّب (munaššib)
  • Passive participle: مُنَشَّب (munaššab)
• Form III: نَاشَبَ (nāšaba, “declare war to; to begin, to have a deal or be engaged with”)
  • Verbal noun: مُنَاشَبَة (munāšaba)
  • Active participle: مُنَاشِب (munāšib)
  • Passive participle: مُنَاشَب (munāšab)
• Form IV: أَنْشَبَ (ʔanšaba, “to make stick; to make break out”)
  • Verbal noun: إِنْشَاب (ʔinšāb)
  • Active participle: مُنْشِب (munšib)
  • Passive participle: مُنْشَب (munšab)
• Form V: تَنَشَّبَ (tanaššaba, “to be attached”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنَشُّب (tanaššub)
  • Active participle: مُتَنَشِّب (mutanaššib)
• Form VI: تَنَاشَبَ (tanāšaba, “to be attached to each other”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنَاشُب (tanāšub)
  • Active participle: مُتَنَاشِب (mutanāšib)
• Form VIII: اِنْتَشَبَ (intašaba, “to get stuck; to be attached to, to be engaged; to be united; to amass provisions or riches”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْتِشَاب (intišāb)
  • Active participle: مُنْتَشِب (muntašib)
  • Passive participle: مُنْتَشَب (muntašab)

• نُشْبَة (nušba, “snare”)
• مَنْشَب (manšab, “place wherein one is trapped”)
• مِنْشَب (minšab, “a kind of unripe date”)
• نَشَب (našab, “property, fortune”)
• نَشِب (našib, “sticking”)
• نُشَّاب (nuššāb), نُشَاب (nušāb), نَشَّاب (naššāb, “arrow; crossbow”), sing. نُشَّابَة (nuššāba, “arrow”)
• نَشَّاب (naššāb, “archer”)

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