استقبل
Arabic
Etymology
From the root ق ب ل (q-b-l).
Verb
اِسْتَقْبَلَ • (istaqbala) X (non-past يَسْتَقْبِلُ (yastaqbilu), verbal noun اِسْتِقْبَال (istiqbāl))
- to receive (a person, radio broadcast, etc.)
- to turn one’s face toward
- to go to meet, to meet
- to face, to confront
- to place oneself in front of, opposite to (transitive)
- to take upon oneself, to assume
- to impend
Conjugation
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Related terms
References
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “استقبل”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[1], 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