# نقب
## Arabic

* Root
* ن ق ب (n q b)
* 9 terms

### Etymology 1.1
#### Verb

نَقَبَ • (naqaba) I (non-past يَنْقُبُ (yanqubu), verbal noun نَقْب (naqb))
* to dig, to grave, to bore into (literally, or as to find, or to rummage a territory, etc.)

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 1.2
#### Verb

نَقِبَ • (naqiba) I (non-past يَنْقَبُ (yanqabu), verbal noun نَقَب (naqab))
* to teem in holes, to be gappy

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 1.3
#### Verb

نَقَّبَ • (naqqaba) II (non-past يُنَقِّبُ (yunaqqibu), verbal noun تَنْقِيب (tanqīb))
* (transitive) to pierce, to lacerate (the skin)
* (transitive) to perforate, to drill a hole into (e.g. a wall)
* to drill [with عَن (ʕan) ‘for something, e.g. oil’]
* (transitive) to dig [with فِي (fī) ‘in the ground’]
    Synonym: نَبَّثَ (nabbaṯa)
* (figurative) to dig into, to investigate thoroughly [with عَن (ʕan) ‘an issue, a matter’]

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 1.4
#### Noun

نَقْب • (naqb) m (plural أَنْقَاب (ʔanqāb) or نِقَاب (niqāb))
* verbal noun of نَقَبَ (naqaba) (form I)
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:96-97:آتُونِي زُبَرَ الْحَدِيدِ حَتَّىٰ إِذَا سَاوَىٰ بَيْنَ الصَّدَفَيْنِ قَالَ ٱنْفُخُوا حَتَّىٰ إِذَا جَعَلَهُ نَارًا قَالَ آتُونِي أُفْرِغْ عَلَيْهِ قِطْرًا ۝ فَمَا ٱسْطَاعُوا أَن يَظْهَرُوهُ وَمَا ٱسْتَطَاعُوا لَهُ نَقْبًاʾātū-nī zubara l-ḥadīdi ḥattā ʾiḏā sāwā bayna ṣ-ṣadafayni qāla nfuḵū ḥattā ʾiḏā jaʿala-hū nāran qāla ʾātū-nī ʾufriḡ ʿalay-hi qiṭran. fa-mā sṭāʿū ʾan yaẓharū-hu wa-mā staṭāʿū la-hū naqban“Give me bits of iron.” Until he dumped equally high between the two mountain cuttings. He said: “Blow.” Till he made fire. He said: “Bring me molten copper I pour upon it.“ ۝ And they could neither scale nor penetrate it.
* passage, breach, tunnel
** 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 54:153:لَيْسَ مِنْ بَلَدٍ إِلَّا سَيَطَؤُهُ الدَّجَّالُ إِلَّا مَكَّةَ وَالْمَدِينَةَ وَلَيْسَ نَقْبٌ مِنْ أَنْقَابِهَا إِلَّا عَلَيْهِ الْمَلَائِكَةُ صَافِّينَ تَحْرُسُهَاlaysa min baladin ʾillā sayaṭaʾu-hū d-dajjālu ʾillā makkata wa-al-madīnata wa-laysa naqbun min ʾanqābi-hā ʾillā ʿalay-hi l-malāʾikatu ṣāffīna taḥrusu-hāThere is no land that the False Messiah will not walk on, save for Mecca and Medina. There is no pathway among its pathways that does not have angels in array who watch over it.

##### Declension
### Etymology 1.5
#### Noun

نَقَب • (naqab) m
* verbal noun of نَقِبَ (naqiba) (form I)

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Verb

نَقُبَ • (naquba) I (non-past يَنْقُبُ (yanqubu), verbal noun نَقَابَة (naqāba))
* to become a leader [with عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘of someone/some people’]

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3
#### Noun

نُقُب • (nuqub) pl
* plural of نِقَاب (niqāb, “veil”)

### Etymology 4
#### Verb

نقب (form I)
* نَقُبُّ (naqubbu) /na.qub.bu/: first-person plural non-past active indicative of قَبَّ (qabba)
* نُقَبُّ (nuqabbu) /nu.qab.bu/: first-person plural non-past passive indicative of قَبَّ (qabba)
* نَقُبَّ (naqubba) /na.qub.ba/: first-person plural non-past active subjunctive/jussive of قَبَّ (qabba)
* نُقَبَّ (nuqabba) /nu.qab.ba/: first-person plural non-past passive subjunctive/jussive of قَبَّ (qabba)
* نَقُبِّ (naqubbi) /na.qub.bi/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of قَبَّ (qabba)
* نُقَبِّ (nuqabbi) /nu.qab.bi/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of قَبَّ (qabba)

### Etymology 5
#### Verb

نقب (form I)
* نَقُبْ (naqub) /na.qub/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of قَابَ (qāba)
* نُقَبْ (nuqab) /nu.qab/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of قَابَ (qāba)

### Etymology 6.1
#### Verb

نقب (form I)
* نَقْبُ (naqbu) /naq.bu/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of قَبَا (qabā)
* نُقْبَ (nuqba) /nuq.ba/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of قَبَا (qabā)

### Etymology 6.2
#### Verb

نقب (form II)
* نُقَبِّ (nuqabbi) /nu.qab.bi/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of قَبَّى (qabbā)
* نُقَبَّ (nuqabba) /nu.qab.ba/: first-person plural non-past passive jussive of قَبَّى (qabbā)

### Etymology 7
#### Verb

نقب (form I)
* نَقِبُ (naqibu) /na.qi.bu/: first-person plural non-past active indicative of وَقَبَ (waqaba)
* نَقِبَ (naqiba) /na.qi.ba/: first-person plural non-past active subjunctive of وَقَبَ (waqaba)
* نَقِبْ (naqib) /na.qib/: first-person plural non-past active jussive of وَقَبَ (waqaba)

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic نَقْب (naqb).

### Noun

نقب • (naqb)
* (archaic) tunnel
** 12th Century, Sa'di Shirazi, "Golestan":
** شیرمردان را به حکم ضرورت در نقب‌ها گرفته‌اند و کعب‌ها سفته.

### References

Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “نقب”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press