# ناب
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

* Root
* ن و ب (n w b)
* 7 terms

#### Verb

نَابَ • (nāba) I (non-past يَنُوبُ (yanūbu), verbal noun نَوْب (nawb) or مَنَاب (manāb) or نِيَابَة (niyāba))
* to replace, to substitute [with عَن (ʕan)]
* to act on behalf of, to represent [with عَن (ʕan)]
* to nod assent to, to agree with, to turn towards [with إِلَى (ʔilā)]

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From Aramaic ניב (nīḇ, “fang, tusk; pincer”) unless otherwise a Proto-Semitic development, potentially an extension from Akkadian 𒉏𒋭 (nūbtu, “honeybee; stringers”), hence sharp things that pierce in and do not release like a predator's use of canine teeth. The sense "aged female camel" makes reference to the length of the female camel's permanent canine teeth, which begin to emerge around 7 years of age. It belongs morphologically to the root ن ي ب (n-y-b), with connections to نُوب (nūb, “bees”), Ugaritic 𐎐𐎁𐎚 (nbt, “honey”), Phoenician 𐤍𐤐𐤕 (npt, “virgin honey”), Ge'ez ንህብ (nəhb, “bee, drone”), and Shehri nibbet (“bee, wasp, stinging insect”).

#### Noun

نَاب • (nāb) m (plural أَنْيَاب (ʔanyāb) or نُيُوب (nuyūb) or أَنَايِيب (ʔanāyīb) or أَنْيُب (ʔanyub))
* fang, tusk
** 10th century, Al-Mutanabbi
    إِذَا رَأَيْتَ نُيُوبَ ٱللَّيْثِ بَارِزَةً فَلَا تَظُنَّنَّ أَنَّ ٱللَّيْثَ يَبْتَسِمُʔiḏā raʔayta nuyūba l-layṯi bārizatan fa-lā taẓunnanna ʔanna l-layṯa yabtasimuIf you see the lion’s fangs jut out, you are not supposed to believe that the lion smiles!
* canine tooth
* large teeth, long thick teeth

##### Descendants

* Maltese: nejba
* Moroccan Arabic: ناب (nāb)

#### Noun

نَاب • (nāb) m (plural أَنْيَاب (ʔanyāb) or نُيُوب (nuyūb) or نِيب (nīb))
* old she-camel

##### Declension
### Etymology 3

* Root
* ن ب و (n b w)
* 1 term
Derived from the active participle of نَبَا (nabā, “to be or go amiss”).

#### Adjective

نَابٍ • (nābin) (construct state نَابِي (nābī))
* not on target
* dislikable, hideous
** 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل [wajdiyy al-ʔahdal], أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, page 115:كان يصرخ بشتائم نابية زلزلت جدران القسم.He exclaimed shabby insults making the walls of the department tremble.

##### Declension
### References

* Freytag, Georg (1837) “ناب”, 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 348
* Freytag, Georg (1837) “ناب”, 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 357
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ناب”, 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 C$^{ie}$, page 1362
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ناب”, 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 C$^{ie}$, page 1375
* Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “ناب”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache‎ (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 965
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ناب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1324
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ناب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1333
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “ناب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 894

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic ناب (nāb).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /naːb/

### Noun

ناب • (nāb) m (plural نياب (nyāb))
* canine tooth

## Persian
### Etymology

From Middle Persian *anāb (“undiluted, pure”).

### Adjective

ناب • (nâb)
* pure
* undiluted
* unalloyed