Arabic word sheet
كَذَّبَ
he denied; he called (it) a lie
- Type
- verb
- Root
- ك ذ ب
Meaning and usage
To deny, to reject as false
To refuse to hold a thing as true: a piece of news, an account, a claim. Whoever does so declares that what he is told is false.
كَذَّبَ رَامِي بِالْخَبَرِ
Rami rejected the news as false.
To call someone a liar
To tell a person, or to say of them, that they are lying; to charge them with untruth.
كَذَّبَ الْجَارُ الْبَائِعَ
The neighbour called the seller a liar.
To lose one's nerve, to draw back
In the old language, said of one who rushes forward and then lacks the courage to go through with it, or who gives up out of fear what he meant to do.
Word family
What the root means ك ذ ب
The root carries the idea of saying what is not true, the opposite of truthfulness. From it come the words for lying, a lie, a liar, and for declaring a person or a statement false.
to lie
كَذَبَ
lying, a lie
كَذِبٌ
lying, a liar
a habitual liar
كَذَّابٌ
denial, giving the lie
تَكْذِيبٌ
to show someone to be lying
أَكْذَبَ
Synonyms
to deny, to refuse to acknowledge
أَنْكَرَ
Says that one does not acknowledge the thing, without necessarily accusing anyone of lying.
to deny what one knows
جَحَدَ
Implies that the one who denies knows full well that the thing is true.
Opposites
to believe, to hold as true
صَدَّقَ