نَبَشَ

, aorist نَبُشَ , (S, Mgh, Msb,) verbal noun نَبْشٌ, (S, A, Mgh, Msb, K) He took, drew, or pulled, out, or forth, (Mgh, Msb, K,) a thing, (Msb, TA,) [as] a leguminous plant, (S,) or a thing buried, (Mgh,) or a thing after burial, (TA,) [as] a corpse; (S, TA;) whence نَبَّاشٌ, q. v.: (S, Mgh:) he made a thing that was concealed or covered to come out or forth, or to become apparent. (A, K.)

[Hence,] هُوَ يَنْبُشُ لِعِيَالِهِ, (A, TA,) inf, n. as above, (K, TA,) (tropical:) He draws forth sustenance hence and thence for his family, or household: (A:) or (tropical:) he gains, or earns, or seeks sustenance, for them. (K, * TA.)

And هُوَ يَنْبُشُ الأَسْرَارَ, (A, TA,) and الحَدِيثَ, verbal noun as above, (K, TA,) (tropical:) He draws forth, or elicits, secrets, and discourse, narration, or information: (K, * TA:) or نَبَشْتُ السِّرَّ signifies (assumed tropical:) I divulged the secret. (Msb.)

And العُرُوقَ ↓ إِنْتَبَشَ (tropical:) He drew forth, or extracted, the veins. (A.)

Also, He removed, a thing from over another thing which it covered or concealed; (A, Msb, * K;) and earth from a thing beneath it: (A, Msb: *) whence نَبَّاشٌ, q. v. (Msb, K.)

And hence, نَبَشَ القَبْرَ [He uncovered, or he rifled, or ransacked, the grave]. (A, Mgh, Msb.)

-A2- Also, He dug with the hand; as also نَبَثَ. (AZ, in S, article نبث.)