inbīq

alembic, retort

إِنْبِيق

Word

Noun · pattern إِفْعِيل

Root

ن ب ق

Forms

Plural
أَنابِيق

In the library

التدبير على بركة الله: خذ الحجر الكريم، فأودعه القرعة والإنبيق، وفصل طبائعه الأربع التي هي النار والهواء والأرض والماء، وهي الجسد والروح والنفس والصبغ.

The Muqaddimah, page 336 →

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Lane's Lexicon

Arabic–English, 1863–93 · 4 entries
  • نبق من الطريق nearness and shortness in a way
    and انباق denote nearness and shortness in a way (TA, art. عجل), like مُسْتَعْجِلَةٌ.
  • نَبِقٌ the fruit of the سِدْر or lote-tree
    , properly the fruit of the سِدْر or lote-tree, is also applied to The tree called سِدْر itself: see دَوْمٌ. The fruit so called is a drupe, resembling the crab. ― -b2- It seems to be also applied to A drupe absolutely, or a drupe like that of the سِدْر: see its dim., ↓ نُبَيْقَةٌ voce أَشْكَلُ: see also شِرْيَانٌ.
  • نبيق A bad sort of dates, also called حُبْيَقٌ
    [app. نُبَيْقٌ] A bad sort of dates, also called حُبْيَقٌ. (TA in art. حبق.) ― -b2- See نَبِقٌ.
  • نَبِيقَةٌ when it has grown large
    of a grape-vine, A زَمَعَة when it has grown large. (ISh in TA, art. زمع.)

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