ن ز ع

Arabic

Etymology

Apparently the most primitive senses are related to striving into a well to get water, which is confirmed by comparative evidence, regard Hebrew נָסַע (nāsaʿ, “to pull out, to set out”), Aramaic נְסַע (nsaʿ, “to remove”), Ugaritic 𐎐𐎒𐎓 (nsʿ, “to pull out”), Akkadian 𒍣 (/⁠nasāḫu⁠/, “to pull out”), Akkadian 𒁁 (/⁠nēsu⁠/, “to remove; to depart”), Tigre ነዝዓ (näzʿa, “to pull out”), Ge'ez ነዝዐ (näzʿä, “to pull out”), ነዝሐ (näzḥä, “to pull out”), Old South Arabian 𐩬𐩸𐩲 (nzʿ, “to withdraw”), and meeting the meaning of the third stem in Arabic Old South Arabian 𐩬𐩸𐩲 (nzʿ, “to come to grips; quarrel”).

Root

ن ز ع • (n-z-ʕ)

1. related to tugging, pulling
2. related to striving

Derived terms

• Form I: نَزَعَ (nazaʕa, “to pull out”)
  • Verbal noun: نَزْع (nazʕ)
  • Active participle: نَازِع (nāziʕ)
  • Passive participle: مَنْزُوع (manzūʕ)
• Form I: نَزَعَ (nazaʕa, “to yearn, to strive, to tend, to be inclined”)
  • Verbal noun: نُزُوع (nuzūʕ), نَزَاعَة (nazāʕa), مَنْزَع (manzaʕ)
  • Active participle: نَازِع (nāziʕ)
• Form II: نَزَّعَ (nazzaʕa, “to pluck out”)
  • Verbal noun: تَنْزِيع (tanzīʕ)
  • Active participle: مُنَزِّع (munazziʕ)
  • Passive participle: مُنَزَّع (munazzaʕ)
• Form III: نَازَعَ (nāzaʕa)
  • Verbal noun: مُنَازَعَة (munāzaʕa), نِزَاع (nizāʕ)
  • Active participle: مُنَازِع (munāziʕ)
  • Passive participle: مُنَازَع (munāzaʕ)
• Form IV: أَنْزَعَ (ʔanzaʕa, “to uproot”)
  • Verbal noun: إِنْزَاع (ʔinzāʕ)
  • Active participle: مُنْزِع (munziʕ)
  • Passive participle: مُنْزَع (munzaʕ)
• Form VI: تَنَازَعَ (tanāzaʕa)
  • Verbal noun: تَنَازُع (tanāzuʕ)
  • Active participle: مُتَنَازِع (mutanāziʕ)
  • Passive participle: مُتَنَازَع (mutanāzaʕ)
• Form VIII: اِنْتَزَعَ (intazaʕa, “to draw out, to wrest”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْتِزَاع (intizāʕ)
  • Active participle: مُنْتَزِع (muntaziʕ)
  • Passive participle: مُنْتَزَع (muntazaʕ)
• Form X: اِسْتَنْزَعَ (istanzaʕa)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِنْزَاع (istinzāʕ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَنْزِع (mustanziʕ)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَنْزَع (mustanzaʕ)

• نَزْعَة (nazʕa, “tendency, propensity, trend”)
• نَزِيع (nazīʕ, “not deep, so that one can pull out from it with ease; intruder, foreigner”)
• نَزُوع (nazūʕ, “deep; not deep”)
• مَنْزَع (manzaʕ, “bottom of a well; intention; method”)
• نَزَّاع (nazzāʕ, “tending; pulling”)
• نَازِعَة (nāziʕa, “tendency”)
• مِنْزَع (minzaʕ, “arrow for throwing at a target, dart”)

Related terms

• ن س خ (n-s-ḵ)
• ن س ك (n-s-k)
• ن س ع (n-s-ʕ)
• نُسْغ (nusḡ)
• م س ح (m-s-ḥ)

References

• “nsḥ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• H5265 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, pages 410–411
• “ن ز ع”, in The Assyrian Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (CAD)‎^[1], volume 11, N, part 2, Chicago: University of Chicago Oriental Institute, 1980, pages 1 seqq. and 185 seqq.
• Olmo Lete, Gregorio del with Sanmartín, Joaquín and Watson, Wilfred G. E. (2015) “/n-s-ʕ/”, in A Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 112), 3rd edition, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 634
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ن ز ع”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 656–658
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن ز ع”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[3] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 265–266
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ن ز ع”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 3030–3031
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ن ز ع”, 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^[5] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1235–1237
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ن ز ع”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[6], London: Williams & Norgate, page 2784
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ن ز ع”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[7], London: W.H. Allen, page 1113
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ن ز ع”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[8] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 1260–1262