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نٞابُت

nö́bot (yenóbet/ľinbέt)

basic morphological information

v. (Ia)

to pollinate (date-palms)
опылять (финиковые пальмы)
لقّح

LS 255; CSOL I 617; CSOL II 546

text examples

a. kɔn šin níbit di-tímhɛr wa-nebóten ˁaf ˁamḳ di-šɔm ľísoʰ mέsɛ ‘It was the season of palm pollination in our land. We were pollinating (our trees), till in the middle of the day it started to rain’ (CSOL II 30:38)

b. ˁag nö́bot tímhɛr ‘A man pollinated date-palms’ (field notes)

morphological notes

pass. níbɛt (yenúbot/ľinbót)

v. n. níbit

root

nbt

derivates

nébet to be plentiful, abundant

etymology

With Leslau (LS 255), likely related to Arb. nbt ‘to sprout, to germinate’, even if the semantic correlation is not quite perfect.