Arabic dictionary
Dictionary Arabic-English Lexicon by Edward William Lane (d. 1876)
Entry نبع
1 نَبَعَ It (water) welled, or issued forth.
نَبَعَ عَلَيْهِمْ: see نَبَأَ عليهم.
4 أَنْبَعَ He (God) made, or caused, water to issue. (Msb.) نَبْعٌ The tree so-called: see an ex. of its n. un. in a verse cited voce تَحَوَّفَ and تَخَوَّفَ.
نَبْعٌ: see شَوْحَطٌ and شِرْيَانٌ and فَتْحٌ.
نَبْعَانِ The two shafts of a cart: so called because they were commonly made of wood of the tree called نَبْع: see رَادَّةٌ.
انْبَعُ
, irregularly formed from the augmented verb أَنْبَعَ: see an ex. in a couplet cited voce سَقَى.
E.W. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (8 parts, London, 1863-93) is a major Arabic-English dictionary based on 112 sources, mostly medieval ones, along with al-Zabidi's Taj al-Aroos (also included in Lisaan.net). Lane died before he could finish the work, his great-nephew Stanley Lane-Poole finished it, publishing Volumes VI, VII and VIII from 1877–1893 using Lane's incomplete notes. Lane-Pool's work is of lower quality than Lane's. The work of Reinhart Dozy (see below) was meant as a supplement to Lane's work that covers modern Arabic (Lane focused on classical Arabic only). The digital text for the Lexicon was sourced from Tufts University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. We used a TXT version created by an internet user named Navid-ul-Islam. Lisaan.net's version of the Lane Lexicon corrects various errors from both the Persues project (such as erroneous transcriptions of the Persian letter ژ) and the TXT version. Lisaan.net's version also provides helpful automatic annotations on the various abbreviations used by Lane.