Arabic

Verb

عَقَدَ • ‎(ʿaqada) I, non-past يَعْقِدُ‎ (yaʿqidu)

1. to tie, knit, make a knot
2. to conclude a bargain or contract
3. to build access (to a bridge)
4. to place (the crown on one's head)
5. to make (لِ ‎(li) someone) a leader
6. to warrant
7. to set (one's heart) upon
8. to form seed pods
9. to make an arch or vault
10. to count
11. (passive) to be gathered

Conjugation

References

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

Etymology 2

Verb

عَقِدَ • ‎(ʿaqida) I, non-past يَعْقَدُ‎ (yaʿqadu)

1. to speak with an impediment
2. to be on the point of forming (of a seed pod)
3. (intransitive) to thicken, get consistent
4. to hang together (of dogs)

Conjugation

References

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

Etymology 3

Verb

عَقَّدَ • ‎(ʿaqqada) II, non-past يُعَقِّدُ‎ (yuʿaqqidu)

1. to connect, tie together with a knot
2. to complicate
3. to arch, to vault
4. (transitive) to thicken, make consistent (by boiling, etc.)

Conjugation

References

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

Etymology 4

Noun

عَقْد • ‎(ʿaqd) m ‎(plural عُقُود ‎(ʿuqūd))

1. verbal noun of عَقَدَ ‎(ʿaqada, “to tie”) (form I)
2. tying together, binding
3. tie, bond
4. compact, contract, covenant
5. connection, cohesion
6. decade
7. alloy
8. seed pod
9. denary number
10. making of magic knots

Declension

References

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

Noun

عَقْد • ‎(ʿaqd) m ‎(plural عُقُود ‎(ʿuqūd))

1. vault, arch
2. opinion, belief

Declension

References

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

Etymology 5

Noun

عَقَد • ‎(ʿaqad) m

1. verbal noun of عَقِدَ ‎(ʿaqida) (form I)

Declension