قعد

• IPA^(key): /qa.ʕa.da/

قَعَدَ • (qaʕada) I, non-past يَقْعُدُ‎ (yaqʕudu)

1. to sit down
2. to sit
3. to remain sitting, to abide, to dwell
4. to be pensioned
5. to roost
6. to invite to sit, to seat
7. to stand
8. to be stiff
9. to be idle
10. to desist (عَن (ʕan) from), to cease
11. to bear no fruit every second year
12. to make a stand (بِ (bi) against)
13. to neglect
14. to keep from
15. (intransitive) to prepare a plan
16. (copulative) to become

    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:صار

    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 17:29:

      وَلَا تَجْعَلْ يَدَكَ مَغْلُولَةً إِلَىٰ عُنُقِكَ وَلَا تَبْسُطْهَا كُلَّ الْبَسْطِ فَتَقْعُدَ مَلُومًا مَحْسُورًا

      walā tajʕal yadaka maḡlūlatan ʔilā ʕunuqika walā tabsuṭhā kulla l-basṭi fataqʕuda malūman maḥsūran

      Do not be so tight-fisted, for you will be blameworthy; nor so open-handed, for you will end up in poverty.

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قعد”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

• IPA^(key): [ˈʔæʕæd]

قعد • (ʾaʿad) (present يقعد (yuʾʿad))

1. sit, stay

From Arabic قَعَدَ (qaʕada).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.ʕad/

قَعَد • (ɡaʕad) I (non-past يِقْعُد (yiɡʕud))

1. to sit, to stay

From Arabic قَعَّدَ (qaʕʕada).

• IPA^(key): /ɡaʕ.ʕad/

قعد • (ɡaʕʕad) II (non-past يِقَعِّد (yiɡaʕʕid))

1. to let sit, to let stay

From Arabic قَعَدَ (qaʕada).

• IPA^(key): (Ramallah) /ʔa.ʕad/, [ˈʔa.ʕad]
• IPA^(key): (Gaza) /ɡa.ʕad/, [ˈɡa.ʕad]

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قعد • (ʔaʕad) I (present بقعد (boʔʕod), active participle قاعد (ʔāʕed))

1. to sit down, to sit (+ على)

   قعدت آخر صفّ.

   ʔaʕadt āḵer ṣaff.

   I sat down in the last row.

   الجاجة قاعدة عالبيض.

   il-jāje ʔāʕede ʕal-bēḍ.

   The hen is sitting on the eggs.

2. (by extension) to hang out, to spend time with (+ مع)

   يا ريت لو عندي أكتر وقت نقعد مع بعض.

   ya rēt law ʕandi aktar waʔt noʔʕod maʕ baʕḍ.

   I wish I had more time for us to hang out together.

3. to remain, to stay

   قعدت خاطب تقريبا سنة.

   ʔaʕadt ḵāṭeb taʔrīban sane.

   I was engaged for about a year.

   (literally, “I remained engaged for approximately a year.”)

   بزبط تقعد هون وتخلّي عينك عالأولاد؟

   boẓbot toʔʕod hōn w tḵalli ʕenak ʕal-ūlād?

   Could you stay here and keep an eye on the kids?

   قدّيش إلك قاعد هون؟

   ʔaddeš ilak ʔāʕed hōn?

   How long have you been living here?

   (literally, “How long have you been staying here?”)

4. to surf (the internet)