نطع

Arabic

Etymology 1

Apparently from Old South Arabian, perhaps mediated and distorted in local Aramaic, compare Sabaean 𐩬𐩦𐩱 (ns²ʾ, to build up, to raise (buildings, terraces etc.); to take out (water); to levy (taxes); to expel), 𐩬𐩦𐩱𐩬 (ns²ʾn, a social class, stratum), 𐩣𐩬𐩦𐩱 (mns²ʾ, a gathering, assembly; (military) campaign, offensive), figurative developments of the cognate to the Arabic root ن ش ء (n-š-ʔ).

Noun

نِطْع or نَطْع or نَطَع or نِطَع • (niṭʕ or naṭʕ or naṭaʕ or niṭaʕ) m (plural نُطُوع (nuṭūʕ) or أَنْطَاع (ʔanṭāʕ))

  1. a piece of lamb leather washed and tanned so one can sit on it, recline on it, play boardgames on it, eat on it, or form a sack from it by pulling a cord; executioners used it to collect the blood of the decapitated
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Buḵāriyy, 79:55:
      أُمَّ سُلَيْمٍ كَانَتْ تَبْسُطُ لِلنَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ نِطَعًا فَيَقِيلُ عِنْدَهَا عَلَى ذٰلِكَ النِّطَعِ
      ʔumma sulaymin kānat tabsuṭu li-n-nabiyyi ṣallā llāhu ʕalay-hi wasallama niṭaʕan fa-yaqīlu ʕinda-hā ʕalā ḏālika n-niṭaʕi
      Umm Sulaym used to spread a leather sheet for the Prophet (ﷺ) on which the latter took a nap by her.
  2. (uncommon) palate, palatum durum
    Synonym: حَنَك (ḥanak)
Declension
Alternative forms
  • نطعة
Derived terms

Verb

نُطِعَ • (nuṭiʕa) I, non-past يُنْطَعُ‎ (yunṭaʕu)

  1. to change the color into a pale one
Conjugation

Verb

نَطُعْ • (naṭuʕ) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of طَاعَ (ṭāʕa)

Verb

نُطَعْ • (nuṭaʕ) (form I)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of طَاعَ (ṭāʕa)

Verb

نُطِعْ • (nuṭiʕ) (form IV)

  1. first-person plural non-past active jussive of أَطَاعَ (ʔaṭāʕa)

Verb

نُطَعْ • (nuṭaʕ) (form IV)

  1. first-person plural non-past passive jussive of أَطَاعَ (ʔaṭāʕa)

References

  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “نطع”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 683
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نطع”, 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 295
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “نطع”, 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 1284
  • Müller, David Heinrich (1887) “Arabisch-aramäische Glossen”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (in German), volume 1, page 24, to Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 93
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “نطع”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 1128
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “نطع”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1142
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “نطع”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1283–1284
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