Arabic word sheet
عَاقِبَةٌ
Outcome, end, consequence
- Type
- noun
- Root
- ع ق ب
Meaning and usage
Outcome, end, consequence
What a thing ends in or leads to: its end, its result, good or bad. Said of any affair or act.
عَرَفَ الطَّالِبُ عَاقِبَةَ الْكَسَلِ.
The student learned the consequence of laziness.
Offspring, descendants
The children and grandchildren a man leaves after him.
تَرَكَ الْجَدُّ عَاقِبَةً كَثِيرَةً.
The grandfather left many descendants.
What comes after, a successor
Any person or thing that takes the place of another after it.
Word family
What the root means ع ق ب
The root carries the idea of what comes after, behind something else. From it come the heel, following or succeeding someone, and what an affair leads to.
heel; what follows
عَقِبٌ
to succeed, to follow
عَقَبَ
to come after
عَقَّبَ
to take over from
أَعْقَبَ
outcome, what an affair brings
عُقْبَى
Synonyms
end, last part
آخِرٌ
It simply names the last part of a thing, without the idea of a result or a sequel.
result
نَتِيجَةٌ
More neutral and more common today, it names what a cause produces, without the shade of a final end.