انقلب

• IPA^(key): /in.qa.la.ba/

اِنْقَلَبَ • (inqalaba) VII (non-past يَنْقَلِبُ (yanqalibu), verbal noun اِنْقِلَاب (inqilāb))

1. to be turned upside down or topsy-turvy, to be overturned
2. to be converted, to change, to transform
3. (copulative) to become

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:صار

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 7:119:

     فَغُلِبُوا هُنَالِكَ وَانْقَلَبُوا صَاغِرِينَ

     faḡulibū hunālika wānqalabū ṣāḡirīna

     They were defeated there and became humble

4. to veer, to turn, to turn around
5. to be turned
6. to proceed suddenly

• اِنْقَلَبَ السِّحْرُ عَلَى السَّاحِرِ (inqalaba s-siḥru ʕalā s-sāḥiri, idiom)
• اِنْقَلَبَ عَلَى عَقِبَيْهِ (inqalaba ʕalā ʕaqibayhi, idiom)
• اِنْقَلَبَ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ (inqalaba ʕalā wajhihi, idiom)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “انقلب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

From Arabic اِنْقَلَبَ (inqalaba).

• IPA^(key): /an.ɡa.lab/

انقلب • (angalab) VII (non-past يِنْقَلِب (yingalib))

1. to be turned upside down or topsy-turvy, to be overturned