عاقب

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ع ق ب (ʕ-q-b).

Verb

عَاقَبَ • (ʕāqaba) III (non-past يُعَاقِبُ (yuʕāqibu), verbal noun مُعَاقَبَة (muʕāqaba))

1. to punish

   Antonyms: أَثَابَ (ʔaṯāba), جَزَى (jazā)

2. to do a thing alternately with (someone)
3. to alternate, make an interchange (بَيْنَ (bayna) between two things)
4. to come or use alternately, relieve (e.g. a guard)
5. to follow at one's heels
6. to move the legs alternately
7. be alternately used or employed
8. to carry off (booty or gain)

References

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “عاقب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “عاقب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen