Arabic word sheet
اِتَّخَذَ
To take for oneself, to get
- Type
- verb
- Root
- ء خ ذ
Meaning and usage
To take for oneself, to get
To take a thing so as to have it as one's own, to acquire it or provide oneself with it.
اِتَّخَذَ رَامِي بَيْتًا قُرْبَ الْبَحْرِ.
Rami got himself a house near the sea.
To take as, to make into
To give a person or a thing a role: to make someone one's friend or model, or a place one's office.
اِتَّخَذَتْ لَيْلَى الْغُرْفَةَ مَكْتَبًا.
Layla made the room into an office.
To make, to prepare
In older usage: to make an object out of some material, or to prepare a dish or a remedy.
اِتَّخَذَتِ الْأُمُّ طَعَامًا لِلضُّيُوفِ.
The mother prepared a meal for the guests.
To take a decision, a measure modern usage
Today it is said of what one settles on after thinking: a decision, a measure, a stance.
اِتَّخَذَ الْمُدِيرُ قَرَارًا سَرِيعًا.
The manager took a quick decision.
Word family
What the root means ء خ ذ
The root is about taking, laying hold of. This verb adds the idea of taking for oneself: getting a thing, making something of it, or making it outright.
to take
taking
أَخْذٌ
taking for oneself, adopting
اِتِّخَاذٌ
Synonyms
to make, to render
جَعَلَ
Only says that one turns a thing into another, without the idea of taking it for oneself.
to obtain, to hold
حَازَ
Stresses having the thing in hand once it is obtained, not what one makes of it.
Opposites
to leave, to give up