استقبل

Desiderative to قَبِلَ (qabila, “to receive”).

• IPA^(key): /is.taq.ba.la/

اِسْتَقْبَلَ • (istaqbala) X (non-past يَسْتَقْبِلُ (yastaqbilu), verbal noun اِسْتِقْبَال (istiqbāl))

1. to receive (a person, radio broadcast, etc.)
2. to turn one’s face toward
3. to go to meet, to meet

   اِسْتَقْبَلَ الضُّيُوفَ بِابْتِسَامَةٍ حَارَّةٍ. ― He welcomed the guests with a warm smile.

4. to face, to confront
5. to place oneself in front of, opposite to (transitive)
6. to take upon oneself, to assume
7. to impend

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

From Arabic اِسْتَقْبَلَ (istaqbala).

• IPA^(key): /as.taɡ.bal/

استقبل • (astagbal) X (non-past يستقبل (yistagbil))

1. to receive
2. to go to meet, to meet

From Arabic اِسْتَقْبَلَ (istaqbala).

• IPA^(key): /is.taʔ.bal/,

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استقبل • (istaʔbal) X (present بستقبل (bistaʔbel))

1. to receive

   استقبلني في مكتبه. ― istaʔbalni fī maktabo ― He received me in his office.