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م-ن-ع

The Arabic root م-ن-ع (m-n-a)

Form I verb مَنَعَ: to hinder

12 words in the dictionary are built from م-ن-ع, including verbs in Forms I, III, V, VIII. 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 III
to resist
Verb · Form I
to hinder
Adjective
مَمْنُوع
forbidden
Noun
مَناعة
impregnability
Adjective
مَنِيع
strong
Adjective
مَانِع
forbidding
Noun
مَانِع
hindrance
Noun
اِمْتِنَاع

Verbs and the nouns that come from them

مَنَعَ · present يَمْنَعُ
Form I · The plain action

to hinder, to prevent, to repel; to defend, to protect; to forbid, to prohibit, to ban

مَنْع
Verbal noun
prevention
مَانِع
Active participle
forbidding
مَانِع
Active participle
hindrance
مَمْنُوع
Passive participle
forbidden
مَانَعَ · present يُمَانِعُ
Form III · Done to or with someone

to resist, to oppose, to counteract, to rise up against, to stand up against; to refuse, to deny, to object to; to dispute, to protest, to contest

مُمَانَعَة
Verbal noun
مُمَانِع
Active participle
مُمَانَع
Passive participle
تَمَنَّعَ · present يَتَمَنَّعُ
Form V · Reflexive of Form II

to seek protection in; to refrain, abstain, desist from; to be or become inaccessible

تَمَنُّع
Verbal noun
مُتَمَنِّع
Active participle
مُتَمَنَّع
Passive participle
اِمْتَنَعَ · present يَمْتَنِعُ
Form VIII · Reflexive, often idiomatic

to abstain, to refrain from something, or to withhold oneself from someone (constructed with عَن (ʕan)); to be impossible

اِمْتِنَاع
Verbal noun
مُمْتَنِع
Active participle
مُمْتَنَع
Passive participle

Other nouns and adjectives

مَناعة
Noun
impregnability
مَنِيع
Adjective
strong
مَمْنُوعِيَّة
Noun
forbiddenness

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