excavator, grave robber

, aor. , (S, Mgh, Msb,) inf. n. نَبْشٌ, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K) He took, drew, or pulled, out, or forth, (Mgh, Msb, K,) a thing, (Msb, TA,) [as] a leguminous plant, (S,) or a thing buried, (Mgh,) or a thing after burial, (TA,) [as] a corpse; (S, TA;) whence نَبَّاشٌ, q. v.: (S, Mgh:) he made a thing that was concealed or covered to come out or forth, or to become apparent. (A, K.) ― -b2- [Hence,] هُوَ يَنْبُشُ لِعِيَالِهِ, (A, TA,) inf, n. as above, (K, TA,) (tropical:) He draws forth sustenance hence and thence for his family, or household: (A:) or (tropical:) he gains, or earns, or seeks sustenance, for them. (K, * TA.) ― -b3- And هُوَ يَنْبُشُ الأَسْرَارَ, (A, TA,) and الحَدِيثَ, inf. n. as above, (K, TA,) (tropical:) He draws forth, or elicits, secrets, and discourse, narration, or information: (K, * TA:) or نَبَشْتُ السِّرَّ signifies (assumed tropical:) I divulged the secret. (Msb.) ― -b4- And العُرُوقَ ↓ إِنْتَبَشَ (tropical:) He drew forth, or extracted, the veins. (A.) ― -b5- Also, He removed, a thing from over another thing which it covered or concealed; (A, Msb, * K;) and earth from a thing beneath it: (A, Msb: *) whence نَبَّاشٌ, q. v. (Msb, K.) ― -b6- And hence, نَبَشَ القَبْرَ [He uncovered, or he rifled, or ransacked, the grave]. (A, Mgh, Msb.) -A2- Also, He dug with the hand; as also نَبَثَ. (AZ, in S, art. نبث.)

[app. (assumed tropical:) He endeavours to draw forth or elicit, or he searches out, secrets]. (TA.)

see 1.

The trade, or occupation, of the نَبَّاش. (TA.)

[ Earth extracted from a well or burrow or the like. Hence,] نَبِيشَةُ اليَرْبُوعِ [The earth extracted by the jerboa in making its burrow]. (T in art. دم.)

One who rifles, or ransacks, graves; who takes forth the dead from them; or who uncovers graves. (Mgh, Msb.) See 1, in two places.

A thing that is taken, drawn, or pulled, out, or forth: (Lh:) the lower part of leguminous plants taken, drawn, or pulled, out, or forth: (S, K:) or trees pulled out by the trunk and roots: (K:) as also ↓ أُنْبُوشَةٌ: (TA:) or ↓ both signify what is torn out by the rain: (AHeyth:) pl. أَنَابِيشُ, (S, K,) the pl. of both the above words. (AHeyth.) ― -b2- Also, Full-grown unripe dates that are pierced with thorns in order that they may ripen. (TA.) ― -b3- And the pl. signifies Small arrows. (Sgh.) Some say that this pl. has no singular. (MF.)

: see أُنْبُوشٌ, in two places.