عاقب

• IPA^(key): /ʕaː.qa.ba/

عَاقَبَ • (ʕāqaba) III (non-past يُعَاقِبُ (yuʕāqibu), verbal noun عِقَاب (ʕiqāb) or مُعَاقَبَة (muʕāqaba))

1. (transitive) to punish

   Antonym: أَثَابَ (ʔaṯāba)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 16:126:

     وَإِنْ عَاقَبْتُمْ فَعَاقِبُوا بِمِثْلِ مَا عُوقِبْتُم بِهِ ۖ وَلَئِن صَبَرْتُمْ لَهُوَ خَيْرٌ لِلصَّابِرِينَ

     wa-ʔin ʕāqabtum fa-ʕāqibū bi-miṯli mā ʕūqibtum bi-hī wa-la-ʔin ṣabartum la-huwa ḵayrun li-ṣ-ṣābirīna

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2. to do a thing alternately with (someone)
3. to alternate, make an interchange (بَيْنَ (bayna) between two things)
4. to come or use alternately, relieve (e.g. a guard)
5. to follow at one's heels
6. to move the legs alternately
7. be alternately used or employed
8. to carry off (booty or gain)

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “عاقب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “عاقب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

Learned borrowing from Arabic عَاقَبَ (ʕāqaba).

• IPA^(key): /ʕaː.qab/,

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عاقب • (ʕāqab) III (present بعاقب (biʕāqeb))

1. to punish