اختبأ

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Arabic

Root
خ ب ء (ḵ b ʔ)
5 terms

Pronunciation

Verb

اِخْتَبَأَ (iḵtabaʔa) VIII (non-past يَخْتَبِئُ (yaḵtabiʔu), verbal noun اِخْتِبَاء (iḵtibāʔ))

  1. (transitive, archaic) to hide
  2. (intransitive) to hide
    شَعَرَ جُحَا بِوُجُودِ لِصٍّ فِي دَارِهِ لَيْلًا، فَقَامَ إِلَى ٱلْخِزَانَةِ وَٱخْتَبَأَ بِهَا
    šaʕara juḥā bi-wujūdi liṣṣin fī dārihi laylan, fa-qāma ʔila l-ḵizānati wa-ḵtabaʔa bihā
    Juha sensed the presence of a thief in his house at night, so he went to the closet and hid in it.

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References

  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “اختبأ”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 453
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “اختبأ”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 530
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “اختبأ”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 692
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “اختبأ”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 310
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “خ ب ء”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN