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 [Az-Zubayr] 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)

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

أَقْرَبُ • (ʔaqrabu) (form I)

1. first-person singular non-past active indicative of قَرِبَ (qariba)

أَقْرَبَ • (ʔaqraba) (form I)

1. first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of قَرِبَ (qariba)

أَقْرَبْ • (ʔaqrab) (form I)

1. first-person singular non-past active jussive of قَرِبَ (qariba)

أَقْرُبُ • (ʔaqrubu) (form I)

1. first-person singular non-past active indicative of قَرُبَ (qaruba)

أَقْرُبَ • (ʔaqruba) (form I)

1. first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of قَرُبَ (qaruba)

أَقْرُبْ • (ʔaqrub) (form I)

1. first-person singular non-past active jussive of قَرُبَ (qaruba)

أُقْرَبُ • (ʔuqrabu) (form I)

1. first-person singular non-past passive indicative of قَرِبَ (qariba)

أُقْرَبَ • (ʔuqraba) (form I)

1. first-person singular non-past passive subjunctive of قَرِبَ (qariba)

أُقْرَبْ • (ʔuqrab) (form I)

1. first-person singular non-past passive jussive of قَرِبَ (qariba)

أُقَرِّبُ • (ʔuqarribu) (form II)

1. first-person singular non-past active indicative of قَرَّبَ (qarraba)

أُقَرِّبَ • (ʔuqarriba) (form II)

1. first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of قَرَّبَ (qarraba)

أُقَرِّبْ • (ʔuqarrib) (form II)

1. first-person singular non-past active jussive of قَرَّبَ (qarraba)

أُقَرَّبُ • (ʔuqarrabu) (form II)

1. first-person singular non-past passive indicative of قَرَّبَ (qarraba)

أُقَرَّبَ • (ʔuqarraba) (form II)

1. first-person singular non-past passive subjunctive of قَرَّبَ (qarraba)

أُقَرَّبْ • (ʔuqarrab) (form II)

1. first-person singular non-past passive jussive of قَرَّبَ (qarraba)