Arabic edit

Root
ب غ ي (b-ḡ-y)

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

اِنْبَغَى (inbaḡā) VII, non-past يَنْبَغِي‎ (yanbaḡī) (rare in the past tense)

  1. to beseem, to be proper, to be seemly, to be necessary, must
    لَا أَعْلَمُ مَاذَا يَنْبَغِي أَنْ أَتَوَقَّعَ مِنْهَا.
    lā ʔaʕlamu māḏā yanbaḡī ʔan ʔatawaqqaʕa minhā.
    I don't know what I should expect from her.

Conjugation edit

References edit

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “بغي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN