Roots › ن-ص-ب
The Arabic root ن-ص-ب (n-s-b)
Form I verb نَصَبَ: to set up
17 words in the dictionary are built from ن-ص-ب, including verbs in Forms I, II, III, IV, V, VIII. Each verb is listed with the nouns that come from it: its verbal noun (masdar), its participles, and words derived from it.
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Verbs and the nouns that come from them
to set up, to lay, to erect, to raise, to build; to raise the vowel to /a/; to proclaim, to declare, to arrogate to oneself (king, war, sovereignty …)
to strive, to labor, to toil
to install, to establish; to appoint, to assign
to be or become hostile to, to oppose, to declare war on; to farm out a field for half of the produce
to pain, depress, weary tire out; to put a handle to a knife
to be or become placed upright, raised, appointed, erected and standing
to stand up, rise; to stand, be erect; to have an erection
Other nouns and adjectives
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