ن ج ب

Arabic

Root

ن ج ب • (n-j-b)

1. related to being select

Derived terms

• Form I: نَجُبَ (najuba, “to prosper, to prevail, to be excelling”)
  • Verbal noun: نَجَابَة (najāba)
  • Active participle: نَاجِب (nājib)
• Form II: نَجَّبَ (najjaba, “to beget, to sire, to bear”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنْجِيب (tanjīb)
  • Active participle: مُنَجِّب (munajjib)
  • Passive participle: مُنَجَّب (munajjab)
• Form IV: أَنْجَبَ (ʔanjaba, “to beget, to sire, to bear”)
  • Verbal noun: إِنْجَاب (ʔinjāb)
  • Active participle: مُنْجِب (munjib)
  • Passive participle: مُنْجَب (munjab)
• Form V: تَنَجَّبَ (tanajjaba, “to produce what is select or excelling”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنَجُّب (tanajjub)
  • Active participle: مُتَنَجِّب (mutanajjib)
• Form VIII: اِنْتَجَبَ (intajaba, “to pick out, to choose”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْتِجَاب (intijāb)
  • Active participle: مُنْتَجِب (muntajib)
  • Passive participle: مُنْتَجَب (muntajab)
• Form X: اِسْتَنْجَبَ (istanjaba, “to pick out, to choose”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِنْجَاب (istinjāb)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَنْجِب (mustanjib)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَنْجَب (mustanjab)

• نَجَّاب (najjāb, “courier on a dromedary”)
• نَجِيب (najīb, “noble, illustrious, distinguished”)
• نَجْب (najb, “prospering, prevailing, excelling”)
• مِنْجَاب (minjāb, “who bears excelling children”)
• نَجِيبَة (najība, “excellent camel”)
• نَجَب (najab, “exquisite bark of a tree, e. g. cassia”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ن ج ب”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 640–641
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن ج ب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 240
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ن ج ب”, 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^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1198
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ن ج ب”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1247