نكب
Root: نكب
2 entries for this word
Hans Wehr Definitions
Entry 1
نكب nakaba u (nakb, nakab) to make unhappy, miserable, afflict, distress (ه s.o. ; of fate); to drop (ه s.th.); to put (ه s.o.) out of favor; - (نكوب nukūb) to blow sideways; to veer, shift(wind); (nakb, nukūb) to deviate, swerve (عن from, esp., from a path, road, route, course) II to avert, divert, deflect, turn away, remove (ه s.th.) V to deviate, swerve (ه or عن from); to avoid, shun, eschew (ه or عن s.th.); to refrain (عن from), steer clear (عن of); to take upon one‘s shoulders, to shoulder, take upon o.s., assume (ه s.th) | تنكب به عن to make s.o. deviate or swerve from
Entry 2
نكب nakb pl. نكوب nukūb and نكبة nakba pl. nakabāt misfortune, calamity; disaster, catastrophe
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