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ع-ق-ب

The Arabic root ع-ق-ب (a-q-b)

Form I verb عَقَبَ: to follow

22 words in the dictionary are built from ع-ق-ب, including verbs in Forms I, II, III, V, VI. Each verb is listed with the nouns that come from it: its verbal noun (masdar), its participles, and words derived from it.

Most common

Verb · Form V
to trace
Noun
a punishment
Noun
consequence
Verb · Form III
to punish
Noun
تَعَقُّب
following up
Noun
عُقَاب
eagle
Noun
عَقِب
heel
Adjective
مُعَاقِب
punishing

Verbs and the nouns that come from them

عَقَبَ · present يَعْقُبُ
Form I · The plain action

to follow, to succeed, to come after

عَقْب
Verbal noun
عُقُوب
Verbal noun
عَاقِب
Active participle
عَقِيب
Active participle
مَعْقُوب
Passive participle
Derived noun
consequence
عَقَّبَ · present يُعَقِّبُ
Form II · Causative or intensive

to follow, to succeed; to ensue, to pursue, to trail, to tail; to return to; to comment, to revise

تَعْقِيب
Verbal noun
a going or coming after
مُعَقِّب
Active participle
مُعَقَّب
Passive participle
عَاقَبَ · present يُعَاقِبُ
Form III · Done to or with someone

to punish; to do a thing alternately with (someone); to alternate, make an interchange (بَيْنَ (bayna) between two things)

عِقَاب
Verbal noun
punishment
مُعَاقَبَة
Verbal noun
punishing
مُعَاقِب
Active participle
punishing
عَقِيب
Active participle
مُعَاقَب
Passive participle
punished
Derived noun
a punishment
تَعَقَّبَ · present يَتَعَقَّبُ
Form V · Reflexive of Form II

to trace, to track down, to trail (with either the emphasis on the search or the successful finding); to look towards the consequence of, to consider a second time; to doubt; to repent [with مِن (min)]

تَعَقُّب
Verbal noun
following up
مُتَعَقِّب
Active participle
pursuing
مُتَعَقِّب
Active participle
chaser
مُتَعَقَّب
Passive participle
تَعَاقَبَ · present يَتَعَاقَبُ
Form VI · Mutual action

to alternate, to rotate, to follow successively, to pass

تَعَاقُب
Verbal noun
following in succession
مُتَعَاقِب
Active participle
successive
مُتَعَاقَب
Passive participle

Other nouns and adjectives

عُقَاب
Noun
eagle
عَقِب
Noun
heel
عُقْبَة
Noun
that remains as a last in a row of succession
عِقَابِيّ
Adjective
punitive
عُقْب
Noun
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