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to be far off, distant, remote; to move away, withdraw in the distance; to miss (arrow, ʕan the target); to bounce off, rebound, bounce, bound (ʕan from – ʔilà to; ball); to disagree (ʕan with); to be contradictory (ʕan to), to conflict, be in conflict, be inconsistent (ʕan with); to be offensive, repugnant (ʕan to s.o.); to dislike, find repugnant (ʕan s.th.); nabā bi-hī to irk, offend, repel, displease s.o. (of s.th.) | nabā bi-hi ’l-maǧlis, he couldn’t bear sitting on the chair any longer; nabā bi-hā ’l-maḍǧaʕ, she couldn’t stand staying in bed any longer; nabā bi-hi ’l-makān, he felt unable to remain in the place, he became stir-crazy – WehrCowan1979.

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▪ Lane treats a number of items s.v. NBY, not NBW: nabā [written with ʔalif, not yāʔ ] ‘to recoil, revert, glanced off, glance away (ʕan al-ḍarībaẗ from the thing struck with it), without penetrating, or without effect (said of a sword); to be blunt (edge of a sword)’, ‘to recoil, revert (ʕan from s.th.), be repelled (ʕan by) (said of the sight); to recoil, flinch, shrink, be averse (ʕan from s.th.), shun and not accept s.th | ~ ǧanbuhū ʕan al-firāš his side did not rest, was restless, uneasy, upon the bed, it shrank from it’.
▪ Gabal2012 thinks that all meanings of NBW can be derived from one basic value (‘protrusion or swelling/inflation due to a—coarse—agglomeration/accumulation inside or a tension that does not allow the body to decrease/flatten’, such as in ^†nabwaẗ ‘high ground, elevated place’). These aspects, however, are treated by other scholars as belonging to NBʔ in the sense of ‘to be high’, cf. ↗nabaʔa.
▪ Ehret1989#93 regards NBW ‘to remove, withdraw’ as an extension in “inchoative (> tr.)” *‑W from a bi-consonantal “pre-Proto-Semitic” (pPS, i.e. preSem) root ↗*NB ‘to bring out’. Other extensions from the same pre-Sem root: ↗NBṮ ‘to dig out with o.’s hand, clean a well, uproot’, ↗NBǦ ‘to creep out ouf the egg, break forth, flow’, ↗NBḎ ‘to fling out of o.’s hand, cast, reject, let go’, ↗NBŠ ‘to uncover, dig out, dig, bring to light’, ↗NBĠ ‘to appear, come to light, get known, break forth’, ↗NBQ ‘to spurt out of a wound (blood, pus)’, ↗NBW ‘to remove, withdraw’.
▪ For ^†nabwaẗ ‘elevated place’ see ↗nabaʔa.
▪ The obsolete word ^†nabbaẗ ‘disagreeable, abominable smell’ (Hava 1899), arranged by Lane s.r. NBY and said to be »probably a mistake for bannaẗ (and therefore not mentioned by the leading lexicographers), may actually be a (rare) vulgar corrasion of nābiyaẗ ‘repelling’ (PA I f.) (> *nābyaẗ > *nā̆byaẗ = nabyaẗ > *nabʸaẗ > nabbaẗ).
▪ For ^†nabiyyaẗ ‘tableboard; table-cloth of palmleaves’¹ cf. DISC in ↗NBW.

1. Lane: ‘thing like the sufraẗ, made of palm-leave, upon which flour or meal is sifted’.

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► ^†nabbaẗ, n.f., disagreeable, abominable smell: perhaps a vulgar corrasion of nābiyaẗ ‘repelling’; if so, then it is originally a PA I f. of nabā, cf. DISC above.
► ^†nabwaẗ, n.f., elevated place: see DISC above, and ↗nabaʔa.
► ^BP#4823nubuwwaẗ: grouped s.r. NBW in WehrCowan1979 but belonging to the complex of ‘calling, appointing, naming’ treated under ↗nabaʔ (though probably not derived directly from there); cf. also ↗nabiyy and own entry ↗nubuwwaẗ.
► ^BP#813nabiyy (= nabīy): grouped s.r. √NBW in WehrCowan1979 but belonging to the complex of ‘calling, appointing, naming’ treated under ↗nabaʔ (though probably not derived directly from there); cf. also own entry ↗nabiyy.
► ^†nabiyyaẗ, n.f., tableboard; table-cloth of palmleaves: cf. DISC above, and ↗nabaʔa, ↗nabāt.
► ^BP#3290nabawī ↗nabiyy.
► nābin, det. nābī, adj., repugnant, distasteful, improper, ugly: PA I.

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