ن د ب

ن د ب • (n-d-b)

1. related to commissions, crying and scarring

Verbs and verbal derivatives

• Form I: نَدِبَ‎ (nadiba, “to be rife with scars”)
• Form I: نَدُبَ‎ (naduba, “to be alert, quick or awake”)
• Form I: نَدَبَ‎ (nadaba, “to cry, to perform an elegy”)
  • Verbal noun: نَدْب‎ (nadb, “mourning, cry, funeral, delegation”)
  • Active participle: نَادِب‎ (nādib, “mourner, wailer”)
  • Passive participle: مَنْدُوب‎ (mandūb, “bewailed, lamented, delegated, correspondent”)
• Form IV: أَنْدَبَ‎ (ʔandaba, “to risk or invest one's life”)
  • Verbal noun: إِنْدَاب‎ (ʔindāb, “declaration, statement”)
  • Active participle: مُنْدِب‎ (mundib)
  • Passive participle: مُنْدَب‎ (mundab)
• Form VIII: اِنْتَدَبَ‎ (intadaba, “to answer an invitation; to contradict; to accept; (with على‎) to trust with a mandate”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْتِدَاب‎ (intidāb, “calling, invitation”)
  • Active participle: مُنْتَدِب‎ (muntadib, “accredited, commissioned, deputized”)
  • Passive participle: مُنْتَدَب‎ (muntadab, “delegate, representative”)

Nouns and adjectives

• نَدْبَة‎ f (nadba, “a scar”)
• مَنْدَب‎ m (mandab), نُدْبَة‎ f (nudba, “an elegy”)
• اِنْتِدَابِيّ‎ (intidābiyy, “related to a mandate, mandatory”)
• مَنْدُوبِيَّة‎ f (mandūbiyya, “a delegation, an office of a high commissioner”)
• مَنْدُوب‎ m (mandūb, “mourned; regrettable; deputy or representative”)

• Corriente, Federico (2005), “ن د ب”, in Diccionario avanzado árabe (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Barcelona: Herder, page 1152
• Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes by Reinhart Dozy (d. 1883 CE) تكملة المعاجم العربية لرينهارت دوزي
• Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿArab (d. 1311 CE) لسان العرب لإبن منظور
• Wehr, Hans (1960), “ن د ب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz, pages 951