Appendix:Arabic roots/ن د ب

Arabic

Root

ن د ب • (n d b)

1. related to commissions, crying and scarring

Derived terms

Verbs and verbal derivatives

• Form I: نَدِبَ (nadiba, “to be rife with scars”)
• Form I: نَدُبَ (naduba, “to be alert, quick or awake”)

• Form I: نَدَبَ (nadaba, “to cry, to perform an elegy”)
  • Verbal noun: نَدْب (nadb, “mourning, cry, funeral, delegation”)
  • Active participle: نَادِب (nādib, “mourner, wailer”)
  • Passive participle: مَنْدُوب (mandūb, “bewailed, lamented, delegated, correspondent”)
• Form IV: أَنْدَبَ (ʔandaba, “to risk or invest one's life”)
  • Verbal noun: إِنْدَاب (ʔindāb, “declaration, statement”)
  • Active participle: مُنْدِب (mundib)
  • Passive participle: مُنْدَب (mundab)
• Form VIII: اِنْتَدَبَ (intadaba, “to answer an invitation; to contradict; to accept; (with على) to trust with a mandate”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْتِدَاب (intidāb, “calling, invitation”)
  • Active participle: مُنْتَدِب (muntadib, “accredited, commissioned, deputized”)
  • Passive participle: مُنْتَدَب (muntadab, “delegate, representative”)

Nouns and adjectives

• نَدْبَة f (nadba, “a scar”)
• مَنْدَب m (mandab), نُدْبَة f (nudba, “an elegy”)
• اِنْتِدَابِيّ (intidābiyy, “related to a mandate, mandatory”)
• مَنْدُوبِيَّة f (mandūbiyya, “a delegation, an office of a high commissioner”)
• مَنْدُوب m (mandūb, “mourned; regrettable; deputy or representative”)

References

• Corriente, Federico (2005) “ن د ب”, in Diccionario avanzado árabe‎^[1] (in Spanish), 2nd edition, Barcelona: Herder, page 1152
• Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes by Reinhart Dozy (d. 1883 CE) تكملة المعاجم العربية لرينهارت دوزي
• Ibn Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿArab (d. 1311 CE) لسان العرب لإبن منظور
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “Arabic roots/ن د ب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz, page 951