اعترف

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Arabic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Root
ع ر ف (ʕ-r-f)

Compare عَرَفَ (ʕarafa, to know).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (file)

Verb[edit]

اِعْتَرَفَ (iʕtarafa) VIII, non-past يَعْتَرِفُ‎ (yaʕtarifu)

  1. (transitive) to confess, own, avow, to admit
  2. (transitive) to acknowledge
  3. (ditransitive) to recognize [+ بِ (object) = someone or something] + [+accusative = as]
    • 2017 December 10, “العاهل الاردني يعتبر القدس "مفتاح" تحقيق السلام والاستقرار”, in Al-Quds[1], archived from the original on 10 December 2017:
      وقال بيان صادر عن الديوان الملكي تلقت وكالة فرانس برس نسخة منه، ان الملك عبد الله تلقى الأحد اتصالا هاتفيا من الرئيس المصري عبد الفتاح السيسي، جرى خلاله "بحث التطورات المتعلقة بالقدس، في أعقاب القرار الأميركي الاعتراف بها عاصمة لإسرائيل ونقل سفارة بلاده إليها".
      And the statement released from the king’s office Agence France-Press received a copy of said that King ʿabdullāh received on Sunday a phone call from the Egyptian leader ʿabdulfattāḥ as-sīsī in which the latter articulated an “examination of the developments connected to al-quds, following the American decision to recognize it as capital of Israel and to move the embassy of the country to it”.
  4. (transitive) to know
  5. (transitive) to profess the faith
  6. (transitive, intransitive) to say confession (modern)
  7. (transitive) to try to find out, question, inquire (modern)
  8. (intransitive) to make oneself known, state one's name and quality
  9. (transitive) to hint at
  10. (intransitive) to be patient
  11. (intransitive) to be obedient, docile, submissive

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South Levantine Arabic[edit]

Root
ع ر ف
6 terms

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic اِعْتَرَفَ (iʕtarafa).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /iʕ.ta.raf/, [ɪʕˈta.raf]
  • (file)

Verb[edit]

اعترف (iʕtaraf) VIII (present بعترف (biʕtref), verbal noun اعتراف (iʕtirāf))

  1. to recognize, to acknowledge
  2. to admit, to confess

Conjugation[edit]

    Conjugation of اعترف (iʕtaraf)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m اعترفت (iʕtaraft) اعترفت (iʕtaraft) اعترف (iʕtaraf) اعترفنا (iʕtarafna) اعترفتو (iʕtaraftu) اعترفو (iʕtarafu)
f اعترفتي (iʕtarafti) اعترفت (iʕtarfat)
present m بعترف (baʕtref) بتعترف (btiʕtref) بعترف (biʕtref) منعترف (mniʕtref) بتعترفو (btiʕtirfu) بعترفو (biʕtirfu)
f بتعترفي (btiʕtirfi) بتعترف (btiʕtref)
subjunctive m اعترف (aʕtref) تعترف (tiʕtref) يعترف (yiʕtref) نعترف (niʕtref) تعترفو (tiʕtirfu) يعترفو (yiʕtirfu)
f تعترفي (tiʕtirfi) تعترف (tiʕtref)
imperative m اعترف (iʕtrif) اعترفو (iʕtirfu)
f اعترفي (iʕtirfi)