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نَبَزَهُ , aor.
نَبِزَ , inf. n.
نَبْزٌ,
He called him, or
named
him, by a by-name, surname, or
nickname; he
by-named him, surnamed him, or
nicknamed him;
syn.
لَقَّبَهُ; (S, Msb, K;) mostly signifying
he called him, or
named him, by a nickname, a
name of reproach, or
an opprobrious appellation;
(TA;) as also ↓
نبّزهُ : (K:) or the latter is with
teshdeed to denote muchness, or frequency, or
repetition, of the action, or its application to many
objects: you say,
بِالصَّبْيَانِ ↓
فُلَانٌ
يُنَبِّزُ Such a one by-names,
surnames, or [rather]
nicknames, the children;
syn.
يُلَقِّبْهُمْ. (S.) ― -b2-
النَّبْزُ is also
syn. with
اللَّمْزُ; (K;) or is
like the latter:
(TA;) [i. e.,
نَبَزَهُ also signifies
He upbraided,
or
reproached, him; or
the like.] 2
نَبَّزَ see 1, in two places. 6
تنابزوا , (Msb, K, *) or
تنابزوا
بِالْأَلْقَابِ,
(S,)
They called one another by
by-names, surnames, or [rather] nicknames:
(S, Msb, * K:) or
they upbraided, reproached, or
reviled, one another; (K, TA;)
calling one
another by names of reproach. (TA.) So in the Kur,
xlix. 11; where the doing so is forbidden. (TA.)
نَبَزٌ , [or, accord. to the Msb,
it seems to be
نَبْزٌ, for it is there said to be an inf. n.
used as a subst., but this form I have never met with
elsewhere,]
A by-name; or
surname; or
nickname; syn.
لَقَبٌ; (S, Msb, K;) mostly,
the latter;
i. e.,
a name of reproach; an opprobrious
appellation: (TA:) but Kh, [makes it, contr. to
common usage, to signify
a proper name; for he]
says, that names are of two kinds;
أَسْمَآءُ
نَبَزٍ, such as
زَيْدٌ and
عَمْرُو; and
أَسْمَآءُ
عَامٍّ, such as
فَرَسٌ and
رَجُلٌ and the like: (TA:) pl.
أَنْبَازٌ. (S.)
نَبِزٌ Ignoble, or
mean,
(Sgh, K,)
in his grounds of pretension to respect,
or
his rank or
quality, and in his natural
disposition. (K.)
رَجُلٌ
نُبَزَةٌ A man who is much
accustomed to call others by by-names, surnames, or
[rather]
nicknames. (K.) Credit:
Lane Lexicon