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ن-ق-ب

The Arabic root ن-ق-ب (n-q-b)

Form I verb نَقُبَ: to become a leader

21 words in the dictionary are built from ن-ق-ب, including verbs in Forms I, II, V. Each verb is listed with the nouns that come from it: its verbal noun (masdar), its participles, and words derived from it.

Most common

Noun
captain
Noun
نِقَابَة
association
Noun
نَقَّاب
stapler
Noun
تَنْقِيب
verbal noun of نَقَّبَ
Verb · Form I
نَقُبَ
to become a leader

Verbs and the nouns that come from them

نَقُبَ · present يَنْقُبُ
Form I · The plain action

to become a leader

نِقَابَة
Verbal noun
association
نَقَابَة
Verbal noun
Active participle
captain
مَنْقُوب
Passive participle
dug through
نَقَبَ · present يَنْقُبُ
Form I · The plain action

to dig, to grave, to bore into (literally, or as to find, or to rummage a territory, etc.)

نَقْب
Verbal noun
passage
نَاقِب
Active participle
مَنْقُوب
Passive participle
نَقِبَ · present يَنْقَبُ
Form I · The plain action

to teem in holes, to be gappy

نَقَب
Verbal noun
نَقَّبَ · present يُنَقِّبُ
Form II · Causative or intensive

to pierce, to lacerate (the skin); to perforate, to drill a hole into (e.g. a wall); to drill

تَنْقِيب
Verbal noun
verbal noun of نَقَّبَ
مُنَقِّب
Active participle
مُنَقَّب
Passive participle
تَنَقَّبَ · present يَتَنَقَّبُ
Form V · Reflexive of Form II

to investigate thoroughly, to scour; to veil oneself; to be gappy, to be full of holes

تَنَقُّب
Verbal noun
مُتَنَقِّب
Active participle
مُتَنَقَّب
Passive participle

Other nouns and adjectives

نَقَّاب
Noun
stapler
نِقَاب
Noun
niqab
نُقْبَة
Noun
kilt
نِقْبَة
Noun
mode of covering the face
نَقْبَة
Noun
breach
مَنْقَبَة
Noun
virtue
مِنْقَبَة
Noun
trephine
مِنْقَب
Noun
trephine
مَنْقَب
Noun
place where one passes
نَقِيبَة
Noun
mind

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