أكب

Arabic

Root
ك ب ب (k-b-b)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔa.kab.ba/

Verb

أَكَبَّ • (ʔakabba) IV, non-past يُكِبُّ‎ (yukibbu)

  1. (intransitive) to throw oneself prostrate, to bow down, to bend or lean [+ عَلَى (object) = over]
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 67:22:
      أَفَمَن يَمْشِي مُكِبًّا عَلَىٰ وَجْهِهِ أَهْدَىٰ أَمْ مَنْ يَمْشِي سَوِيًّا عَلَىٰ صِرَاطٍ مُسْتَقِيمٍ
      ʔafaman yamšī mukibban ʕalā wajhihi ʔahdā ʔam man yamšī sawiyyan ʕalā ṣirāṭin mustaqīmin
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. (figurative, intransitive) to devote oneself, to peruse one’s vigour, to throw oneself into [+ عَلَى (object)]
  3. (transitive) to cover with a lid

Conjugation

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