نمق

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Arabic

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Etymology

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From Middle Persian [script needed] (nʾmk' /⁠nāmag⁠/), which gave the productive root ن م ق (n-m-q). Compare Persian نامه (nâme).

Noun

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نَمْق (namqm (obsolete)

  1. verbal noun of نَمَقَ (namaqa) (form I)
  2. book

Declension

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Verb

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نَمَقَ (namaqa) I (non-past يَنْمُقُ (yanmuqu), verbal noun نَمْق (namq)) (obsolete)

  1. to write, to compose (a book)

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Verb

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نَمَّقَ (nammaqa) II (non-past يُنَمِّقُ (yunammiqu), verbal noun تَنْمِيق (tanmīq))

  1. to embellish, to stylize, to embroider, to refine, to adorn

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References

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  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نمق”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 339
  • ابن منظور. «نمق»، لسان العرب.
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “نمق”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[2] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1317