عَاقَبَ punish in Arabic
عَاقَبَ is how you say “punish” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
وإن كثرت سيئاته عوقِبَ بقدرها، ثم تُخرجه بقيةُ حسناته ولو كانت مثقال ذرّة؛ إذ إن الإيمان لا ينعدم مع وجود أصلٍ منه
And if his bad deeds are numerous, he is punished according to them, then the rest of his good deeds deliver him, even if they are the weight of an atom, for faith does not vanish as long as a trace of it remains.
عُوقِبَ he is punished
PASSIVE past — 'he was punished', not 'punished'. The inner-vowel shape marks the passive; the punisher unnamed — 'he gets punished'.
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More example sentences
إن رجحت سيئاته عوقب بقدْرها،
If his bad deeds outweigh, he will be punished proportionally,
عُوقِبَ he will be punished
PASSIVE past — 'he was punished', not 'punished'. The inner-vowel shape marks the passive; the punisher unnamed.
ويرضى ويغضب ويثيب ويعاقب
And He is pleased and becomes angry, and He rewards and punishes,
وَيُعَاقِبُ and He punishes
'And' plus a present-tense engage-with (form III) verb 'metes out punishment', subject 'He' inside. The opposite of 'rewards', completing the pair.