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أخذ

Pronunciation: /ʔa.xa.ða/

“أخذ” is an Arabic word. Its 20 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to take
  2. to take along
  3. to get, to receive, to obtain
  4. to seize, to grab, to take hold
  5. to capture, to seize, to take captive
  6. to perceive, to notice
  7. to gather, to understand, to infer, to deduce
  8. to grip, to captivate, to spellbind
  9. to keep, to observe, to adopt, to embrace, to follow
  10. to accept
  11. to admonish, to urge, to drive
  12. to enjoin, to impose
  13. to strip, to deprive, to cut off, to bar
  14. to reproach, to blame, to criticize
  15. to obligate
  16. to learn, to study
  17. to begin, to start, to prepare to, to set out to, to be about to, to get ready to (followed by a non-past verb)

noun

  1. acceptance, reception
  2. seizure
  3. taking away, removal

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔaḫaḏ-. Cognate with Hebrew אָחַז (aḥáz), Aramaic ܐܚܕ (ʾeḥaḏ), Sabaean 𐩱𐩭𐩹 (ʾḵḏ).

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