nab
- (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forNambikwara.
From dialectalnap(“to seize, lay hold of”), probably ofNorth Germanic origin, fromOld Swedishnappa(“to pluck, pinch”).
Related toDanishnappe(“to tweak, snatch at, catch, seize”),Swedishnappa(“to take, grab, pinch”),Norwegian Bokmålnappe(“to grab, snatch, pluck, yank”).
nab (third-person singular simple presentnabs,present participlenabbing,simple past and past participlenabbed)
- (informal, transitive) Toseize,arrest or take intocustody (acriminal orfugitive).
- 1887,Anna Katharine Green,7 to 12, A Detective Story, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 2:
- As I was going out of the door, a fellow detective came hurriedly in. "Nabbed them," cried he.
2019 July 3, Mike D'Angelo, “Oscar Isaac and Ben Affleck blunder through a heavy heist in J.C. Chandor’sTriple Frontier”, inAV Club[1], archived fromthe original on21 November 2019:Their target: a drug kingpin who reportedly keeps millions of dollars in his fortress of a compound. Pope has been working for years tonab this baddie, and sincerely wants to stop his reign of terror,)
- (informal, transitive) Tograb orsnatch something.
- (Internetslang, transitive) Tosteal orcopy another user's post.
Compareknap,knop,knob.
nab (pluralnabs)
- Thesummit of ahill.
1828, George Young,A Geological Survey of the Yorkshire Coast:At Clayton point and othernabs to the south of Scarborough.
1847, Emily Brontë,Wuthering Heights:‘I thought I heard my father,’ he gasped, glancing up to the frowningnab above us. ‘You are sure nobody spoke?’
- Thecock of agunlock.
1677–1683,Joseph Moxon, “(please specify the page)”, inMechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works, […], volume(please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Joseph Moxon, published1678–1683,→OCLC:The Toe, orNab of the Bolt, which rises[…]above the Straight on the Top of the Bolt: The Office of this Nab, is to receive the Bottom of the Bit of the Key, when in turning it about, it shoots the Bolt backward or forwards.
- (locksmithing) Thekeeper, orbox into which thelock is shot.
1703,Joseph Moxon,Mechanick Exercises:the Bottom of the Bit may fall almost to the Bottom of the Nab , and shoot the Bolt back
nab
- pure
Southeastern Tepehuan
[edit]Cognate withNorthern Tepehuannávoi,O'odhamnav,Central Tarahumaranapó,Mayonaabo,Hopinaavu.
nab
- prickly pear cactus(clarification of this definition is needed.)
- R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016),Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”;48)[2] (in Spanish), electronic edition,Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page132
FromProto-Hmong-Mien*ʔnaŋ(“snake”). Cognate withIu Miennaang.[1]
nab(classifier:tus)
- snake
- worm
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979),White Hmong — English Dictionary[3], SEAP Publications,→ISBN, page135.
- ^Ratliff, Martha (2010),Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics,→ISBN, page277.
