مُقَاتِل Muqatil in Arabic
مُقَاتِل is how you say “Muqatil” in Arabic.
Root ق ت ل q-t-l. noun (active participle, form III). muqātil.
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Meaning of Muqatil in Arabic
- fighter, combatant active participle of qātala, 'to fight, contend in battle'
Example sentence
وعن مقاتل
And from Muqatil:
مُقَاتِلٍ Muqatil
Proper name (Muqatil); the '-in' ending — it follows 'an' (from), so it takes the 'of' (genitive) ending.
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How it is used
Muqātil is built on the pattern of the active participle of Form III (qātala, 'to fight, engage in battle'), so it names the one doing the fighting — a combatant or fighter, distinct from the plain killer (qātil) of Form I.
Words from the same root
More example sentences
قال مقاتل بما تبصرون من الخلق ومالا تبصرون منه
Maqatil said: by what you see of creation and what you do not see of it.
مُقَاتِلٌ Maqatil
A scholar's proper name, standing as the subject of 'said' and marked by the subject ending. The ending identifies him as the one speaking; the name is treated as a fixed noun.
أي تختبر وقال مقاتل تظهر وتبدو وبلوت الشيء إذا اختبرته ليظهر لك باطنه وما خفى منه
Meaning, they will be tested, and Muqatil said: they will appear and be revealed. You say you have tested something to uncover its hidden parts and what was concealed.
مُقَاتِلُ Muqatil
This is a proper name standing as the subject of the preceding 'said', so it tells you whose opinion is being reported. As a person's name it is already definite without needing 'the', and Arabic places the doer right after the verb rather than before it, the normal subject-after-verb order.
Common questions
- How do you say "fighter" in Arabic?
- مُقَاتِل (muqātil), literally 'one who fights' — the active participle of qātala, 'to fight, contend in battle.'
- What root does muqātil come from?
- It comes from ق-ت-ل (q-t-l), the root behind killing and fighting, via the Form III verb qātala, 'to fight.'
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).