Arabic word sheet
تَرَكَ
he left
- Type
- verb
- Root
- ت ر ك
Meaning and usage
To leave, to abandon
To go away from a place, a person or a thing and no longer attend to it, by choice or by necessity.
تَرَكَ سَامِي الْمَدِينَةَ فِي الصَّبَاحِ
Sami left the city in the morning.
To stop, to give up
To no longer do something one used to do, or to refrain from it; said of a habit, a job, a task.
تَرَكَ رَامِي التَّدْخِينَ
Rami gave up smoking.
To leave behind
Not to take a thing along when going; also said of the belongings a person leaves to their family at death.
تَرَكَتْ لَيْلَى حَقِيبَتَهَا فِي الْبَيْتِ
Layla left her bag at home.
To leave in a state
Followed by a thing and then the state it is in, it means to leave it that way, and hence to make it so.
تَرَكَ الطَّالِبُ الْبَابَ مَفْتُوحًا
The student left the door open.
Word family
What the root means ت ر ك
The root carries the idea of letting go of a thing and moving away from it. From it come "leaving", "estate left by the dead", "left, abandoned", "thing left behind" and "to leave one another alone".
leaving, giving up
تَرْكٌ
estate, what a dead person leaves
تَرِكَةٌ
left, abandoned
مَتْرُوكٌ
thing left behind; abandoned ostrich egg (old term)
تَرِيكَةٌ
to leave one another alone, to call off a deal
تَارَكَ
Synonyms
to let go, to leave free
خَلَّى
It stresses letting a thing go and leaving the way clear for it, more than moving away from it.
to leave, to let be
وَدَعَ
It is an old verb, rare in this form; in practice the headword almost always takes its place.
Opposites
to take