انتجبهُ

He selected him; chose him; (S;) preferred him above others. (TA.) See also انتخب.

See 1.

ذَهَبَ يَنْتَجِبُ He went to collect [the kind of bark called] نَجَبٌ. (TA.)

A poet says,

يَا أَيُّهَا الزَّاعِمُ أَنِّى أَجْتَلِبْ

وَأَنَّنِى غَيْرَ عِضَاهِى أَنْتَجِبْ

meaning, O thou who assertest that I take the verses of other poets and appropriate them to myself, and, and as it were, take the bark of other trees than my own 'idáh, to tan therewith... (TA.) [See عِضَاهُ.]