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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

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)

morphological notes

pass. níbɛt (yenúbot/ľinbót)

v. n. níbit

root

nbt

derivates

nébet to be plentiful, abundant
énbet to hire somebody to pollinate one’s palm trees
níbit pollination
nέbot pollen

etymology

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