# نبأ
## Arabic
### Etymology

* Root
* ن ب ء (n b ʔ)
* 7 terms
Compare نَبَهَ (nabaha), نَبَعَ (nabaʕa), Hebrew נִבֵּא (nibé, “to prophesy, to proclaim”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /na.baʔ/

### Noun

نَبَأ • (nabaʔ) m (plural أَنْبَاء (ʔanbāʔ))
* news, tidings, story
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 78:1-3:عَمَّ يَتَسَاۤءَلُونَ ۝ عَنِ ٱلنَّبَإِ ٱلۡعَظِيمِ ۝ ٱلَّذِي هُمۡ فِيهِ مُخۡتَلِفُونَ ۝About what are they asking one another? / About the great news - / That over which they are in disagreement.

#### Derived terms

* سُورَةُ النَّبَإ (sūratu n-nabaʔ)

### Verb

نَبَأَ • (nabaʔa) I (non-past يَنْبَأُ (yanbaʔu), verbal noun نَبْء (nabʔ) or نُبُوء (nubūʔ))
* (obsolete) to bark
    Synonym: نَبَحَ (nabaḥa)
* to be exalted, to be elevated
* (obsolete) to assault, to overwhelm
* to revert, to turn away [with عَن (ʕan) or مِن (min) ‘from’, along with إِلى ‘to’]
    Synonym: نَبَا (nabā)

#### Conjugation
### Verb

نَبَّأَ • (nabbaʔa) II (non-past يُنَبِّئُ (yunabbiʔu), verbal noun تَنْبِيء (tanbīʔ) or تَنْبِئَة (tanbiʔa))
* to inform, to give news, to notify, to bode, to announce [with accusative ‘whom’, along with بِ (bi) or accusative or عَن (ʕan) ‘what or what about’]

#### Conjugation
### References

* Baalbaki, Rohi (1995) “نبأ”, in Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary, 7th edition, Beirut: Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, →ISBN
* Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “نبأ”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
* Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 1237
* Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “نبأ”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 633
* Freytag, Georg (1837) “نبأ”, 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 228
* Golius, Jacob (1653) “نبأ”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum, contextum ex probatioribus orientis lexicographis‎ (in Latin), Leiden: Bonaventura & Abraham Elzevir, column 2287
* Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “نبأ”, 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$^{ie}$, pages 1178–1179
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “نبأ”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2752–2753
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “نبأ”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 1095
* Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “نبأ”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache‎ (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 974
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “نبأ”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1100
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (2020) “نبأ”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 6th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 890