نبى1 نَبَاَ عَنِ الضَّرِيبَةِ It (a sword) recoiled, or reverted, [or glanced off, or away,] from the thing struck with it, without penetrating, or without effect; (TA;) returned from it without cutting; (Msb;) took no effect upon it; (S;) syn. كَلَّ. (K.) b2:  نَبَاَ It (the edge of a sword) would not cut; was blunt. (TA.) b3:  نَبَاَ عَنِ الشَّىْءِ It (the sight) recoiled, or reverted, from the thing; was repelled by it; (S, * K, * TA;) syn. تَجَافَى (TA) and كلّ. (K.) b4:  نَبَا عَنِ الشَّىْءِ It (nature) recoiled, flinched, shrank, or was averse, from the thing, or shunned it, and would not accept it. (Msb.) b5:  نَبَا جَنْبُهُ عَنِ الفِرَاشِ (tropical:)  His side did not rest, or was restless, or uneasy, upon the bed: (K, TA:) it shrank from it. b6:  نَبَا It (a saddle) was unfirm, or unsteady; not firm, or steady, in its place. (TA.) نَبِىٌّ: see a verse voce رَتْمٌ.نَبِيَّةٌ, A thing like the سُفْرَة, q. v., made of palm-leaves, upon which flour or meal is sifted. (I'Abbád, O, K.)