verb form I naghaba nagaba نَغَبَ Bookmark Bookmarked Share 1., aorist نَغَبَ and نَغُبَ , (verbal noun نَغْبٌ, TA,) He (a man, TA) swallowed saliva. (K.) 2.نَغَبَ, (verbal noun نَغْبٌ, TA,) It (a bird) sipped water: you do not say of a bird شَرِبَ. (K.) 3.نَغَبَ He (a man) took in gulps, or gulped, in drinking: (K:) and likewise an ass. (TA.) 4.نَغِبْتُ مِنَ الإِنَاءِ نُغَبًا, with kesr, I drank in gulps from the vessel. (ISk, S.)