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Almost every Arabic word is built from a short skeleton of consonants, usually three. Learn the root and you unlock a whole family of related words at once. Each root below lists every word built from it, verbs by form with the nouns that come from them.
ء
to father
to reject
to come
to influence
to reward
to postpone
one
to take
to postpone
to fraternize
to associate
to bring
to harm
to date
to earth
to mark out and lay the foundations of
to regret
tragedy
to be firmly rooted
to assure
to eat
to share the yoke
to be in pain
to deify
to neglect to do
to order
to Americanize
to hope for
to lead the way
to be faithful
to become a female slave
to become used to
to be choosy
to moan
to come
to get married
to bend
to return
to moan
to look for shelter
to be strong
to come
ب
to be brave
to transmit
to search
to sail
to begin
to disperse
to come to mind to
to change
to appear
to give willingly
to be free
to inappropriately show one's beauty
to be or become cold
to contribute
to kneel down
to program
to disagree
to extend
to smile
to peel
to become repugnant
to have sexual intercourse with
to be or become slow
to be valiant
to be big-bellied
to awake
to be distant
some
to be hated
to split
to last
to be early
to cry
to be stupid
to reach
to moisten
foolish
to test
building, constructing
to return
to put a door
to urinate
to spend the night
to perish
to lay eggs
to sell
to separate
ت
to follow
to trade
to translate
to leave
nine
to get tired
to consider insignificant
cheek or forehead
to follow
to be fulfilled
to repent
ث
to establish
to be full-bosomed
to be heavy
to triple
to snow
to stay
a price
to fold
to return
to stir and rise
ج
to become cowardly
corpse
to burn
to be serious
to be suitable
to twist
to bestow
to draw
to dare
to be scabby
to wound
to peel
to swallow
to commit crime
to run
to be divided
to slaughter
to embody
to palpate
to swell
to become dry
to bring
to lash
to sit
to be illustrious
to polish
gathering, bringing together
to be beautiful
the majority
to turn aside
to make alike
to cover
to commit a crime
to strive
to ready
to be ignorant of
to traverse
to be or become good
to deviate
to pass
to be hungry
to be hollow
to wander
to mobilize troops
ح
to love
to become pregnant
to be inflated
to crawl
to stop
to hold back
to suck from
to happen
to deviate
to surround
to spur on
to watch out
to emulate
to be enraged
to be in a critical situation
to free
to keep
to guard
to desire
to turn to the opposite side
to burn
to move
to be sacred
to befall
to tie up
to make sad
to calculate
to be moved with compassion
to be or become good
to gather
to smoke hashish
to happen
to be inaccessible
to be present
to put
to break
to be fortunate
to dig
to preserve
to surround
to gather
to be delayed
to be vile
truth, right, reality
to plant
to keep back
judging, ruling; wisdom
to milk
to shave
to dismount
to dream or about [with بِ ] while asleep
to be sweet or pleasant
to be sweet or pleasant or adorned
to praise
to redden
to be/get excited
to acidify
to be or become stupid/foolish
to carry
to heat
to protect
to need
to guard
to change
to gather
to approach
to experience
خ
to hide
to try
to bake
to seal
to be ashamed
to dull
to deceive
to serve
to demolish
going out, emerging
to guess
to strip
to invent
to pierce
to store
to lose
to lignify
to single out
to castrate
to become green
to be submissive
to err
to become a preacher
to swing
to draw a line
to seize
to take a step forward
to remain
to be lightweight
to beat
to hide
to quiver
being pure, finishing; deliverance
to remove
to succeed
to create
to be empty
to cover
five
to conjecture
to wade into
to fear
to be disloyal
to fail
to select
to sew
to assume
د
to enter
to be smoky
to accustom oneself to
to step
to erase
to put armor on
to last
to know
to support
to call
to warm up
to pay
to cover
to be become thin
to show
to dangle
to destroy
to manure
to be near
to astonish
to be sly
to revolve
to internationalize
to last
to become sick
to owe
ذ
to save up
to use
to mention
to be smart
to follow
going away; gold
to forget
to disturb mentally
to taste
ر
to be at the head
to see
to be master
to win
to tie up
to eat spring grain
to grow
to be or become firm
to return
to go on foot
to hope
to be wide
to saddle
to have mercy
to ask for a cheap price
to be slack
to return
to fall
sending, dispatching a message
to draw
to sweat
to stick firmly
to suckle
to be terrified
to graze
to desire
to be humiliated
to reject
to lift
to be kind
to observe attentively
to dance
to be thin
to imprint
to ride
to plant into the ground
to race
to make a sign
to throw
to be afraid
to mortgage
to go in the evening
to try to convince or persuade
tame
to awe
to tell
to raise suspicions
to depart from
ز
to throw
to sow
to pierce
to bother
to claim
to lead
to thrive
to skate
to be simultaneous
to shine
to marry off
to incline towards
to go away
to hide
to become greater
س
to ask
to revile
to be above
week
to precede
to cover
to register
to confine
to pull
to charm
to crush
to mock
to ridicule
to heat
to make six
to wander
to gladden
to be quick
to steal
to spread forth
to be happy
to price
to aid
to walk
to strip
to be or become base
to skin
to fall
to ceil
to be silent
to get drunk
to be still
to rape
to drop excrements
to enchain
to give power
to follow a road
to pull out
soundness, safety, peace; submitting
to allow
to keep watch
hearing, listening
to thicken
to poison
to be fat
to be high
to lean
to sharpen
to irrigate
toilsome
to have a stern face
to act badly
to be master
to direct
to drive
to offer for sale
to equal
to step along
to flow
ش
thing
to become a young adult
to appear
to entangle
to resemble
to winter
to occur
to be brave
to fill
to rise
to build
to segregate
to drink
to explain
to be bad
to make a condition
to lead
to be noble
to rise
to share
to sell
to divide
to gather
to know
to scatter
to become kindled
to occupy
to encode
to heal
to make a cut or gap in
to thank
to doubt
to hobble
to complain
to be headstrong
to play
to include
to testify
to spread
to consult
to get confused
to excite desire in
to rise
to grill
to will
to become elderly
to burn slightly
to spread
ص
to be beautiful
designate
to act childish
to be one's companion
to be healthy
to be tawny
to mishit with the pen
to be full of stones
to emerge
to have a headache
to turn away from
truthfulness; friendship
to strike
to be pure
to scream
to turn
to be hard
to go up
to be or become small
to incline
to make flat
to whistle
to line up
to slap
to be righteous
to pray
to be silent
to betake oneself
to deafen
to do
to hit
to make a sound
to make
to fast
to yell
to catch
to become
ض
to be small
to do something accurately
to be noisy
to lie down
to laugh
to become
to be or become big
to be contrary
to strike
to harm
to weaken
to press
to gather
to guarantee
to shine
to be lost
to stay
to be narrow
ط
to treat medically
to cook
to print
to superpose
to encroach upon
to throw
to push away
to push someone away from something
to beat
to eat
to extinguish
to intrude
to search
to go up
to set loose
to further
to obey
to circulate
to be able to do
to benefit
to seem suitable
to fly
ظ
ع
to play
to worship
to interpret
to stumble
to wonder
to age
to hurry
to count
to act justly
to lack
to stay
to aggress
to excuse
to translate into Arabic
to prepare a wedding feast
to pull up
to appear
to know
to strip of flesh
to knead
to be naked
to be powerful
to whistle
especially in the loss of loved ones
to militarize
to move
fresh
to befriend
to fall in love
to supper or dine
to twist
to press
to blow
to save
muscle
to incline
to lack
to soak
to give
greatness, magnitude; bone
to follow
to tie
to hamstring
to be reasonable
to overturn
to treat
to be attached to
to give a second time
knowing; a sign, a mark
to publish
to be exalted
to prop up
to make prosperous
to be or become deep
doing, working, making
to be or become general
to be or become blind
to be perverse
element
violent
to embrace
spider
to happen
to further
to commit adultery
to return
to seek refuge or protection
to lose an eye
to offset
to provide for
to float
to help
to be faulty
feast
to live
to appoint
غ
to be or become dust-colored
to feign ignorance
to betray
go away
to feed
to set
to be vexed
to lade out
to drown
to suffer loss
to raid
to clean by washing
to become angry
to cover up
to be asleep
to conquer
to err
to envelop
to become forfeit to the receiver when not redeem…
to insert
to flood
to close
to hum
to be free from want
to lure
to be absent
to be jealous
ف
to open
interval
to overtake
to act immorally
to examine
to glory
to spread
to stare at
to spread
to slit
to ordain
to be empty
to split
to be or become rotten
to interpret
to fail
to dissociate oneself or part company with
to remain
vast and unlimited space
to breakfast
to be abominable
to do
to lose
to dig
to think
to untie a knot
fruit
to withdraw from sucking
to understand
to pass
to overflow
to win
to entrust
to exceed
to benefit
ق
to be ugly
to bury
to seize
receiving, accepting; facing, being before
to kill
to insert
to have power
to be pure
coming forward, advancing; precedence; the foot
to be dirty
to read
point
to wound
to fall off from a sheep
to settle down
to pinch
to cruise the sea as a pirate
to gnaw
to peel
to join
to entertain
to divide
to become hard
to mean
to fall short of
to cut
to remove
to cut off
to decide
to drip
to cut
to sit down
to jump
to turn
to wreathe
to pluck out
to be agitated
to be few
to gamble
to sweep
to be humble
to legalize
to lead
to be/become bent/curved
saying, speaking
to get up
to be depopulated
To nap
ك
to charge with
to be or become big
to press
writing
to amass
to be many
to lie
to return
to put together
to be or become noble
to hate
to dig
to win
to break
to clothe
to remove
to manage
to be enough for
to spend zeal
speech, words; wounding
to finish
to ambush
to hide
to cover
allude
to divine
planet
being, coming into existence
to sear
to plot
to be or become shaped
to measure
ل
to meet the requirements
to wear
to miss
to lick
to look from the corner of one's eyes
to catch up
to be fleshy
to be delicious
to be necessary
tongue
to be kind and friendly
to play
curse
to distort
to cancel
to coil
to catch
to meet
to touch
to beam
to withdraw from
to appear
to blame
to colour
to bend
to befit
to hire on a nightly basis
to soften
م
to luxuriate
to attribute
to efface
to extend
to become urbanized
to stretch
to reckon ingestible
to pass
to steep
to be or become sick
to be elastic
to joke
to tear
to survey
to grab
to worsen morally
to walk
to be sharp
to rain
to collect taxes
to be or become strong or powerful
to fill
to salt
owning, ruling
to be bored by
to give
to hinder
to ejaculate or suffer from seminal loss
to be skilled or skillful
to tarry
to humble
to die
to wave
to budge
to make rich
to abound with water
to set apart
to bend
ن
to be exalted
to germinate
to throw
to be noble
to mind
to bear
to prosper
to succeed
to help
to appear
to survive
side
to choose
to deduct
to regret
to call
to vow
to take away
to drain
to descend
to relate
to gather
to transcribe
to forget
to spread about
to be brisk
to set up
to listen
to give sincere advice
to help
to crowd together
to take half of
to articulate
looking, considering; waiting
to be clean
to organize
to live in comfort
to pierce
to be priceless
to profit
to sell well
to carry off
to become a leader
to cast a stealthy glance upon
to emboss
to transport
to loathe
to purify
to feel unfamiliar about
to grow
to flow forth upon
to rise
to forbid
to replace
to flower
to diversify
to bestow
to sleep
to think
ه
to descend
to exclaim
to attack
to be quiet
to break
to guide
to flee
to be in disorder
to defeat
To cease to exist
to disquiet
to be destroyed
to crumble
to frighten
to be easy
to die
to be beautiful
to pile
و
to contract
to bury alive
to harmonize with
to string
to trust
to be necessary
finding; existing; strong feeling
to ache
to be notable
to be single
to throw away [+بِ ] while fleeing
to inspire
to love
to lay down
to let come up
to inherit
to come
to embroil
to take on colour
to recumb with the hips
to swell
to appoint as a vizier/viceregent/minister
to weigh
to be in the middle or moderate
to be wide
to curry favor
to be handsome of face or figure
to be quick
to tattoo
to variegate
to describe
to arrive at
to be clearly visible
putting down, placing; a situation
to dwell
to assign an office to
to promise
to be aware
to find fit
to fulfill
time
to be or become impudent
to ignite
to fall down
to come to a stop
to guard
to authorize
to enter its nest
giving birth, offspring
to be a friend
to be weak
to grant
to be in a state of fancy
to exclaim "woe!" over or repeatedly