Arabic

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Etymology

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Root
ق و م (q w m)
27 terms

Compare قَامَ (qāma, to rise).

Verb

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اِسْتَقَامَ (istaqāma) X (non-past يَسْتَقِيمُ (yastaqīmu), verbal noun اِسْتِقَامَة (istiqāma))

  1. (intransitive) to rise, to stand up
  2. (intransitive) to straighten up, to become erect
  3. (intransitive) to be or become straight
  4. (intransitive) to stretch ahead (of a road)
  5. (intransitive) to be honest, to be sincere
  6. (intransitive) to be right, to be proper
  7. (intransitive) to improve (of conditions)
  8. (intransitive) to persist [with فِي () ‘in something’]
  9. (transitive) to fix the price of (a good, a product)

Conjugation

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