متأخر

Derived from the active participle of تَأخَّرَ (“to be late, to be last, to remain behind, to delay (intransitive)”).

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مُتَأَخِّر • (mutaʔaḵḵir) (feminine مُتَأَخِّرَة (mutaʔaḵḵira), masculine plural مُتَأَخِّرُونَ (mutaʔaḵḵirūna), feminine plural مُتَأَخِّرَات (mutaʔaḵḵirāt))

1. late
2. later (عَنْ (ʕan) than)
3. lagging behind, delayed
4. behind (in payments), in default
5. underdeveloped
6. modern, late-period

• (antonym(s) of “late”): مُبَكِّر (mubakkir), بَكِير (bakīr), بَكُور (bakūr), بَاكُور (bākūr)
• (antonym(s) of “lagging behind”): مُتَقَدِّم (mutaqaddim)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “متأخر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “أخر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

مُتَأَخِّر • (mutaʔaḵḵir) m (plural مُتَأَخِّرُون (mutaʔaḵḵirūn))

1. one who defaults in payment
2. modern or late-period author or other person

• (antonym(s) of “late-period author or person”): مُتَقَدِّم (mutaqaddim)

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “أخر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “أخر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Classical Arabic مُتَأَخِّر (mutaʔaḵḵir).

• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /mɪt.ʔə.χːɪr/

مِتْأَخِّر • (mɪtaxxɪr)

1. late

   Antonym: مبچر (mbəccɪr)

From Arabic مُتَأَخِّر (mutaʔaḵḵir). Equivalent to the active participle of تأخّر (tʔaḵḵar, “to be late”).

• IPA^(key): /mit.ʔax.xir/,

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متأخّر • (mitʔaḵḵer) (feminine متأخّرة (mitʔaḵḵre), common plural متأخّرين (mitʔaḵḵrīn))

1. late

   Antonyms: (as adverb) بكير (bakkīr), بدري (badri)

• Although متأخر (mitʔaḵḵer) is an adjective, it is also used as an adverb but still agrees in gender and number.

• بعدين (baʔdēn, “later”)