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leader, head, headman; director, principal, chief; chairman of a guild; president; syndic, corporation lawyer; head of a labour or trade union; captain (in most Arab countries; mil.); staff sergeant, first sergeant (Jord. ; mil.); tongue of a balance | n. al-ʔašrāf, n., head of the Alids, head of the descendants of the Prophet – WehrCowan1979.

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From ↗naqaba ‘to pierce’, properly *‘one who sees through things, one whose view penetrates’, hence: ‘one who has overview, can oversee’

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► ^BP#2150niqābaẗ, pl. ‑āt, n., cooperative society; union, association, guild; corporation; syndicate; trade-union, labor union: originally, the office of a naqīb I n. al-ʕummāl, n., trade-union, labor union; n. mihniyyaẗ, n., white collar union:.
► ^BP#4926niqābī, adj., cooperative; syndicalistic; syndicalist; trade-unionist: nsb-adj from niqābaẗ.
► niqābiyyaẗ, n.f., syndicalism; trade-unionism: n.abstr. in ‑iyyaẗ, from niqābaẗ.
► naqībaẗ, pl. naqāʔibᵘ, n., soul, spirit, mind, intellect; natural disposition, nature, temper, character: derived from naqīb ? Or directly from ↗naqaba (*‘the ability to penetrate (a topic) intellectually, to examine, investigate’)?

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