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1 نَبَاَ عَنِ الضَّرِيبَةِ ذ It (a sword) recoiled, or reverted, [or glanced off, or away,] from the thing struck with it, without penetrating, or without effect; (TA;) returned from it without cutting; (Msb;) took no effect upon it; (S;) syn. كَلَّ. (K.) ― -b2- نَبَاَ It (the edge of a sword) would not cut; was blunt. (TA.) ― -b3- نَبَاَ عَنِ الشَّىْءِ It (the sight) recoiled, or reverted, from the thing; was repelled by it; (S, * K, * TA;) syn. تَجَافَى (TA) and كلّ. (K.) ― -b4- نَبَا عَنِ الشَّىْءِ It (nature) recoiled, flinched, shrank, or was averse, from the thing, or shunned it, and would not accept it. (Msb.) ― -b5- نَبَا جَنْبُهُ عَنِ الفِرَاشِ (tropical:) His side did not rest, or was restless, or uneasy, upon the bed: (K, TA:) it shrank from it. ― -b6- نَبَا It (a saddle) was unfirm, or unsteady; not firm, or steady, in its place. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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