أقرب

Elative of قَرِيب (qarīb, “near”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔaq.rab/

أَقْرَب • (ʔaqrab) (feminine قُرْبَى (qurbā), masculine plural أَقْرَبُون (ʔaqrabūn) or أَقَارِب (ʔaqārib), feminine plural قُرْبَيَات (qurbayāt))

1. elative degree of قَرِيب (qarīb):
   1. nearer; nearest
      • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 56:85:

        وَنَحْنُ أَقْرَبُ إِلَيْهِ مِنكُمْ وَلَـٰكِن لَا تُبْصِرُونَ

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   2. more probable; most probable
2. (in the plural) relatives, kin

   اَلْأَقْرَبُونَ أَوْلَى بِٱلْمَعْرُوفِ

   al-ʔaqrabūna ʔawlā bi-l-maʕrūfi

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   • و قال زملاء للهوني أن عميد البلدية ضالع فى عملية توقيفه عبر ممارسته لنفوذه مع أقارب و مقربين منه فى مديرية الأمن التي لم تقدم لهم و لذويه سبب واضح عن إعتقاله فيما أفاد مركز شرطة هون بأن لجنة القبض التابعة له قد تسلمت زبير من المديرية بعد ضبطه بناءً على أمر من مديرها.

     And colleagues of Al-Hūnī have said that the head of the municipality is involved in the process of his apprehension through his utilization of his influence by relatives and close friends of him in the Security Directorate which has not issued to them or to his parents a clear reason for his arrest while the police station of Hūn has stated that the Arrestment Department belonging to it had taken over Zubayr from the Directorate after his capture based on an order of its director.

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

• IPA^(key): /ʔaq.ra.ba/

أَقْرَبَ • (ʔaqraba) IV (non-past يُقْرِبُ (yuqribu), verbal noun إِقْرَاب (ʔiqrāb))

1. to cause a thing to be nearly filled or completed, to be close to being reached, to approach nigh to a time, point, or degree
2. (said of a female) to be near the term of pregnancy, to be close to giving birth
3. to cause camels to travel at night with intention of bringing them closer to a water-source so that they may attain a drink by the morning, to travel at night toward water, to be a people whose camels are undertaking the night journey for such a purpose
4. to be the distance of one night's travel before reaching water

أقرب (form I)

1. أَقْرُبُ (ʔaqrubu) /ʔaq.ru.bu/: first-person singular non-past active indicative of قَرُبَ (qaruba)
2. أَقْرُبَ (ʔaqruba) /ʔaq.ru.ba/: first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of قَرُبَ (qaruba)
3. أَقْرُبْ (ʔaqrub) /ʔaq.rub/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of قَرُبَ (qaruba)
4. أَقْرَبُ (ʔaqrabu) /ʔaq.ra.bu/: first-person singular non-past active indicative of قَرِبَ (qariba)
5. أُقْرَبُ (ʔuqrabu) /ʔuq.ra.bu/: first-person singular non-past passive indicative of قَرِبَ (qariba)
6. أَقْرَبَ (ʔaqraba) /ʔaq.ra.ba/: first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of قَرِبَ (qariba)
7. أُقْرَبَ (ʔuqraba) /ʔuq.ra.ba/: first-person singular non-past passive subjunctive of قَرِبَ (qariba)
8. أَقْرَبْ (ʔaqrab) /ʔaq.rab/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of قَرِبَ (qariba)
9. أُقْرَبْ (ʔuqrab) /ʔuq.rab/: first-person singular non-past passive jussive of قَرِبَ (qariba)

أقرب (form II)

1. أُقَرِّبُ (ʔuqarribu) /ʔu.qar.ri.bu/: first-person singular non-past active indicative of قَرَّبَ (qarraba)
2. أُقَرَّبُ (ʔuqarrabu) /ʔu.qar.ra.bu/: first-person singular non-past passive indicative of قَرَّبَ (qarraba)
3. أُقَرِّبَ (ʔuqarriba) /ʔu.qar.ri.ba/: first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of قَرَّبَ (qarraba)
4. أُقَرَّبَ (ʔuqarraba) /ʔu.qar.ra.ba/: first-person singular non-past passive subjunctive of قَرَّبَ (qarraba)
5. أُقَرِّبْ (ʔuqarrib) /ʔu.qar.rib/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of قَرَّبَ (qarraba)
6. أُقَرَّبْ (ʔuqarrab) /ʔu.qar.rab/: first-person singular non-past passive jussive of قَرَّبَ (qarraba)