تبع

• IPA^(key): /ta.bi.ʕa/

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تَبِعَ • (tabiʕa) I (non-past يَتْبَعُ (yatbaʕu), verbal noun تَبَع (tabaʕ) or تَبَاعَة (tabāʕa))

1. to follow

• Form III: تَابِع (tābiʕ)

تَبَع • (tabaʕ) m

1. verbal noun of تَبِعَ (tabiʕa) (form I)

تَبَع • (tabaʕ) m (collective, singulative تَبَع m (tabaʕ) or تَبَعِيّ m (tabaʕiyy), plural أَتْبَاع (ʔatbāʕ))

1. follower(s)

Uncertain. Lane claims that it is from the root ت ب ع (t-b-ʕ), in reference to how when one king died, his successor would follow his policies. The unusual plural pattern suggests a borrowing from Old South Arabian, but the cognate root in those languages likely has the same meaning of "follow", and is only attested in theophoric names.

تُبَّع • (tubbaʕ) m (plural تَبَابِعَة (tabābiʕa))

1. a king in ancient Yemen; the ruler of Himyar and Hadramawt

تبع (form I)

1. تَبِعْ (tabiʕ) /ta.biʕ/: inflection of بَاعَ (bāʕa):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive
2. تُبَعْ (tubaʕ) /tu.baʕ/: inflection of بَاعَ (bāʕa):
   1. second-person masculine singular non-past passive jussive
   2. third-person feminine singular non-past passive jussive

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis‎ (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 25
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “تبع”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 293a–b
• van Putten, Marijn (2020), "Classical and Modern Standard Arabic", in Arabic and Contact-induced Change (eds. Manfredi and Lucas)

Grammaticalized from Arabic تَبَع (tabaʕ). The feminine form is from Arabic تَبَعِيّ (tabaʕiyy).

• IPA^(key): /ta.baʕ/

تبع • (tabaʿ) m or f or pl (feminine تبعيت (tabʿīt; (rare) tabʿiyyit) or تبعت (tabʿit), plural تَبعُول (tabʿūl), feminine plural (less common) تبعولات (tabʿūlāt))

1. forms possessive pronouns of all persons with the respective personal suffixes

   هيدي تبعيتي

   haydi tabʿīti.

   This one is mine.

2. of; used appositively after a noun instead of an ordinary possessive iḍāfa construction

   هيدي التنورة تبعيت إمي

   haydi t-tannūra tabʿīt ʾimmi

   This is my mother’s skirt.

   بَدِّي إستعمل الكمبيوتر تبعكن

   baddi ʾistaʿmil l-kumpyūtar tabaʿkun

   I need to use your computer.

• The latter construction is particularly common with foreign nouns, as in the example, or with proper nouns. The reason is that adding personal suffixes to these, though perfectly possible, may sound awkward.
• Some speakers do not inflect the word for gender or number.

• تَبْعُول (tabʕūl)
• تَاع (tāʕ)
• تَعُول (taʕūl)

Grammaticalized from Arabic تَبَع (tabaʕ).

• تاع (tāʕ)

• IPA^(key): /ta.baʕ/,

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تبع • (tabaʕ) m (feminine تبعة (tabʕa), plural تبعون (tabʕūn))

1. forms possessive pronouns of all persons with the respective personal suffixes

   هادي تبعتي.

   hādi tabaʕti

   This one is mine.

2. of; used appositively after a noun instead of an ordinary possessive iḍāfa construction

   هادي التنّورة تبعة إمّي.

   hādi t-tannūra tabaʕt ʔimmi

   This is my mother’s skirt.

   بدَي أستعمل الكمبيوتر تبعكم.

   biddi ʔastaʕmel l-kambyūtar tabaʕkom

   I need to use your computer.

• The latter construction is particularly common with foreign nouns, as in the example, or with proper nouns. The reason is that adding personal suffixes to these, though perfectly possible, may sound awkward.
• Some speakers do not inflect the word for gender or number.

From Arabic تَبِعَ (tabiʕa).

• IPA^(key): /ta.baʕ/,

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تبع • (tabaʕ) I (present بتبع (bitbaʕ), active participle تابع (tābeʕ))

1. (formal) to follow

   Synonym: لاحق (lāḥaʔ)

2. (by extension) to depend on, to be a matter of

   هادا تابع لذوق الواحد.

   hāda tābeʕ la-zōʔ il-wāḥad

   It's a matter of individual taste.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /tab.baʕ/,

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تبّع • (tabbaʕ) II (present بتبّع (bitabbeʕ))

1. to keep track
2. to follow up (+ مع)