عقب

عَقَبَ

To come after, follow, succeed, or take the place of another person or thing.

The branch includes close following, succession, replacement, and one event or person coming after another.

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عَاقَبَ

To alternate or take turns with another in an action, position, or use of an object.

Used of riders, partners in an action, alternating bodily support, and interchangeable forms.

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عَقَبَ

To seek evil against someone, including committing adultery with his wife or defaming him behind his back.

These are specialized Classical constructions, distinct from ordinary succession and from Quranic punishment.

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عَقَبَ

To marry a woman after her former husband.

A specialized construction meaning to succeed a previous husband in relation to the woman.

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عَقَبَ

For whiteness or hoariness to follow and replace the blackness of the hair.

The meaning is used of the succession of a later condition to an earlier one.

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عَقَبَ

For a horse to perform a run after another run, or to recover and make a subsequent run.

The term may denote the subsequent run itself or the capacity for repeated running.

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عَقَبَ

For camels to move from one place to another while pasturing.

A pastoral usage concerning changing grazing places.

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عَقَبَ

An adverse consequence or liability that subsequently falls upon someone, especially damage in merchandise.

Used of responsibility for a defect or harmful result discovered after a transaction.

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عَقَبَ

To take or receive something in exchange, as a substitute, equivalent, or requital for another thing.

The construction may denote taking an equivalent from someone, receiving compensation, or obtaining spoil as a requital.

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عَقَبَ

To seek or pursue wealth or another desired thing.

A general Classical use of the Form I verb.

• Lane · entry 4009

عَقَبَ

To bind or reinforce an object with the tough white sinew called عَقَب.

Used of binding earrings, bows, arrows, and similar objects with this tendon material.

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عَقَبَ

To line or reinforce a well with stones, pottery, or material placed behind or between its courses.

A technical well-construction usage involving successive backing or reinforcement.

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عَقْب

A return or going back after departure.

A nominal use of the verbal noun; it is distinct from the physical heel and from a final outcome.

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عَقَّبَ

To do something again after doing it once, or to follow one undertaking with another.

Used of repeated prayers, repeated expeditions, and successive acts.

• Lane · entry 4010

عَقَّبَ

To remain after prayer for supplication or to perform a subsequent supererogatory prayer.

A ritual and devotional construction, including waiting in one's place after an obligatory prayer.

• Lane · entry 4010

تَعْقِيبَة

A subsequent qualification or exception added after an act or statement.

In the expression concerning charity, it denotes following a gift with a condition or exception.

• Lane · entry 4010

عَقَّبَ

To delay or defer payment of another person's due.

A transitive construction concerning postponement of a debt or entitlement.

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عَقَّبَ

To consider the consequence, end, issue, or result of an affair.

The Form II usage may involve looking again at an affair or repeatedly considering its outcome.

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عَقَّبَ

To make repeated efforts or go repeatedly to and fro in pursuit of an objective.

Used of persistent striving in an affair or in the pursuit of distinction.

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عَقِبَ

For a plant to become slender and yellow as it reaches the season of drying.

A botanical usage describing a late stage before complete desiccation.

• Lane · entry 4009
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عَقَّبَ

To plane or smooth a stone used in a well.

A technical Form II use concerning a stone called عُقَاب.

• Lane · entry 4010

عَاقَبَ

To interchange two things or make them replaceable one for the other.

The construction عَاقَبَ بَيْنَ الشَّيْئَيْنِ includes alternation between sounds or other forms.

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عَاقَبَ

For a mare to be made to perform run after run.

A specialized equine usage distinct from punitive requital.

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أَعْقَبَ

To make one person take another's place or yield a position so that the other may act in turn.

Used especially when one dismounts so another can ride, and more generally of transfer of a role.

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أَعْقَبَ

For an affliction or visitation to return at intervals.

A Form IV intransitive use describing recurring insanity or a similar visitation.

• Lane · entry 4012

أَعْقَبَ

For a man to die and leave offspring.

Intransitive; the lexical focus is the succession of descendants after the deceased.

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أَعْقَبَ

To return from evil to good.

A specialized intransitive Form IV usage.

• Lane · entry 4012

أَعْقَبَ

To set upon someone and beat him.

A specialized transitive construction.

• Lane · entry 4012

أَعْقَبَ

For a riding camel to become jaded or fatigued.

Used of the resulting condition of the mount.

• Lane · entry 4012

عُقْبَة

The remains of food or broth left adhering to the bottom of a cooking pot.

Also the small remainder returned with a borrowed pot.

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تَعَقَّبَ

To repent of an affair or action.

An intransitive Form V usage.

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تَعَقَّبَ

To investigate information repeatedly, ask again, or examine a report critically.

The verb may denote repeated inquiry, searching after information, or looking for grounds to question it.

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تَعَقَّبَ

To find fault with, impugn, or expose a person's error or concealed failing.

Used in criticism of a person, judgment, saying, or opinion.

• Lane · entry 4013

اِسْتَعْقَبَ

To follow another's footsteps.

A reported Form X usage attributed to a lexical authority.

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اِعْتَقَبَ

To experience or receive something subsequently as the consequence of an act.

Used of experiencing repentance, good, or another result after an action.

• Lane · entry 4015

اِعْتَقَبَ

To withhold, detain, confine, or imprison someone or something.

Includes retaining merchandise until payment and detaining a person.

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عَقِب

The latter part, last stage, or end of a period or affair.

Classical expressions use the word for the end of a month, the remaining part of an illness, or a state following another state.

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عَقِب

The strap of a sandal that embraces the heel, or the lower pivot of a door.

Two concrete extensions of the rear or supporting part.

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عَقِيب

A thing or person that follows another, including an alternating partner.

Used of sequences in time, alternating night and day, and actions performed turn by turn.

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عَقِب

A reply or further response to a statement.

In the proverb about interrupted speech, the term means an available answer.

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عَقِب

A child or descendants remaining after a man.

This broader Classical branch includes discussion of male offspring and descendants; its Quranic occurrence is separately represented under the Quranic noun sense.

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عِقْبَة

A mark, trace, impress, characteristic, or outward sign of a quality.

Used of the visible mark of generosity, manliness, beauty, or a comparable characteristic.

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عِقْبَةُ القَمَر

The return or reappearance of the moon after setting or changing phase; by extension, an event occurring at a recurring lunar interval.

The sources report differing accounts of the relevant monthly or yearly interval.

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عَقْبَة

A variegated or figured cloth used for covering a camel litter.

A textile term with a reported consonantal variant.

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عُقْبَة

The last surviving member or remainder of a group.

Used of the final remaining person among a lineage or group.

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عُقْبَة

A turn or allotted period during which an action is performed.

Used of taking turns riding, watering camels, praying, or carrying out another duty.

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عُقْبَة

The place on a riding animal where a person mounts during his turn.

A specialized travel usage.

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عُقْبَة

A measured stage or distance of travel, including a distance of two leagues.

A distance term associated with successive halting places or stages.

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عُقْبَة

The interval between a bird's ascent and descent.

A specialized term for a bird's successive movement.

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عُقْبَة

A substitute or thing given in exchange for another, including a ransom or replacement.

Used of receiving a substitute for a captive or another exchanged object.

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عُقْبَة

Food or pasture taken after an earlier kind of food or pasture.

Used of camels changing between kinds of plants and of sweetmeat eaten after the main meal.

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أُمُّ عُقْبَة

A traditional appellation for a cooking pot.

An idiomatic naming expression rather than a productive lexical sense.

• Lane · entry 4023

عُقْبَة

A difficulty or adverse experience resulting from an action.

The sources preserve a spelling and lexical attribution issue in this expression; the reported sense is difficulty experienced as a consequence.

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عُقْبَة

A later changed condition following an earlier one, especially a reversion from harmful conduct.

Appears in a proverbial description of changing through weakness.

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عُقْبِىّ

Obscure or unintelligible speech.

A lexical variant is explicitly connected with an expression for obscure language.

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عِقِبَّان

A rough, coarse, or rude man.

The lexical attribution is reported with doubt about the form's correctness.

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عُقَاب

An eagle, a predatory bird; by extension, a bird or object likened to it for force, swiftness, or appearance.

The entry includes the bird itself, an eagle with powerful talons, and figurative applications to a black she-camel and a banner.

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العُقَاب

The northern constellation Aquila.

A technical astronomical extension of the eagle name.

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العُقَاب

A banner or standard, especially a large military banner.

The object is named by resemblance to the eagle; it can also denote the Prophet's banner.

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عُقَاب

A black she-camel.

A figurative animal designation based on resemblance to the eagle.

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عُقَاب

A projecting rock in a well or mountain, including a step-like ascent.

The well usage includes a rock that can damage a bucket or support the water-drawer; the mountain usage denotes a projecting rocky stair or ascent.

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عُقَاب

A hill or anything elevated that is not especially long or tall.

A general topographical extension of the elevation branch.

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عُقَاب

A channel carrying water to a trough or tank.

A technical hydraulic term.

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عُقَاب

An almond-like growth arising in the leg of an animal.

A specialized anatomical usage.

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عُقَاب

A small thread used to fasten the ring of an earring.

A technical object term associated with binding and fastening.

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عُقَاب

A garment of the type called بُرْد.

A rare lexical attribution.

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عُقَاب

A ploughshare.

A rare lexical attribution reported through a secondary authority within the entry.

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العُقَابَان

Two pieces of wood between which a person is stretched for flogging or crucifixion.

A specialized plural expression.

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عُقُوبَة

Punishment or chastisement.

This is the ordinary Classical noun for punishment; its punitive branch is kept distinct from the Quranic form عِقَاب while remaining semantically related.

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عُقُوبَة

Detention, confinement, or imprisonment.

A legal or disciplinary extension in which punishment consists of confinement.

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عُقَيِّب

A certain small bird, possibly an eaglet.

The identification is lexical but the zoological identification is uncertain.

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عَاقِب

One who comes after or succeeds another; a successor in goodness, office, or leadership.

The term may describe the last in a sequence, a successor to a chief, or a person who follows another in beneficence.

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عَاقِب

Camels that alternate between kinds of pasture or repeatedly return between watering and their resting place.

A specialized pastoral adjective and plural usage.

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عَاقِب

A chief, lord, or successor to a chief or lord.

A social and political extension of the successor sense.

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أَعْقَاب

Streaks or bands arranged one behind another.

A plural descriptive usage, including streaks of fat.

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أَعْقَاب

Pottery or small pieces placed between courses of bricks in a well to strengthen the casing.

A technical well-building usage, distinct from the ordinary plural of heel.

• Lane · entry 4040

تَعْقِيبَة

A catchword written at the bottom of a page.

Explicitly identified as a later or modern technical word.

• Lane · entry 4041

مُعْقَب

One whose state is changed by a succeeding condition.

A passive participial description of successive change of condition.

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مُعْقِب

A star that rises after another star and marks a change of turn for travelers.

A technical astronomical and travel usage.

• Lane · entry 4043

مِعْقَب

A skilled driver or a camel ridden by different persons in turns.

Two specialized nominal uses connected with managing or sharing successive turns.

• Lane · entry 4044

مِعْقَب

A woman's head covering that takes the place of another garment, or an earring.

Distinct object names preserved under the same lexical form.

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مُعَقَّب

One made to leave a vintner's shop when a more important person enters.

A specialized social idiom involving displacement by a later arrival.

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مُعَقَّب

Arriving at the end or near the end of the day.

A temporal participial use.

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مُعَقَّب

An arrow returned repeatedly into the game container, whose prize is hoped for.

A specialized term from the game of maysir.

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مُعَقَّب

A fat slaughtered camel.

A specialized phrase concerning the meat or body of a slaughtered camel.

• Lane · entry 4045

مُعَقِّب

Repeated devotional utterances performed after the ordinary prayer.

A ritual term for successive repetitions of praise and glorification.

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مُعَقِّب

One who repeatedly pursues a right, demands restitution, or seeks to recover property taken from him.

The agent may be a wronged person pursuing his due; a reported alternative analysis treats the word as the debtor who delays payment.

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مُعَقِّب

A man who descends into a well to raise a projecting stone.

A specialized occupational use.

• Lane · entry 4046

مِعْقَاب

A woman who habitually gives birth to a male after a female.

A specialized description of a recurring birth sequence.

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مِعْقَاب

A chamber in which raisins are placed.

A rare technical or architectural use.

• Lane · entry 4047

مُعَاقِب

A palm tree that bears fruit one year and fails to bear the next.

A botanical use of alternating production.

• Lane · entry 4048

مُعَاقِب

A revenger of blood who obtains retaliation for a slain person.

A social and legal extension of requital, distinct from the Quranic Form III verb entry.

• Lane · entry 4048

يَعْقُوب

The male of the partridge, sand-grouse, or related game bird; one interpretation identifies it with an eagle.

The zoological identification is disputed in the lexical discussion; the bird name is distinct from the foreign proper name Yaʿqūb.

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اليَعْقُوبِيَّة

The name of a sect of the Khawarij and of a Christian sect associated with Jacobus Baradaeus.

A proper-name-derived sectarian designation.

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