قَابِلَة receptive in Arabic
قَابِلَة is how you say “receptive” in Arabic.
Root ق ب ل q-b-l. active participle (feminine), form I. qābila.
Arabic
English
The audio uses AI voices.
Meaning of receptive in Arabic
- receptive, accepting feminine active participle of qabila, 'to take, receive, or admit willingly'
- one that takes in or admits readily describes a person or thing open to receiving something
Example sentence
أَرض الْفطْرَة رحبة قابلة لما يغرس فيها،
The soil of innate disposition is expansive and receptive to what is planted in it.
قَابِلَةٌ receptive
qabila means 'receptive, accepting'; the '-un' ending — a further description ('and receptive').
The English is machine-translated.
Practise this word in the app
One tap gives you the meaning, a grammar note and audio.
Add the words you don’t know. Practise them with spaced repetition.
Free. No ads. No subscription.
An account is needed in the app.
How it is used
Qābila is the feminine active participle of qabila (form I), 'to take, receive, or admit willingly.' It sits in a root family built around facing and accepting — qābala 'to face/meet,' aqbala 'to advance, come forward' (opposite of turning away), and istaqbala 'to face, go to meet' all share the same forward-facing core sense that qabila extends into 'accept.'
Words from the same root
- قَبِلَ to take, receive, or admit willingly; to accept
- قَابَلَ to face, be opposite; to correspond to, compare, or requite
- أَقْبَلَ to come facing, advance, come forward (opposite of turning away)
- تَقَابَلُوا they faced or confronted one another
- اِسْتَقْبَلَ to face, turn toward, go to meet, or anticipate
- اِقْتَبَلَ to begin or commence (an affair)
- قَبْلُ before (in time, place, or rank); opposite of after
- قَابِلٌ accepting, receptive (masculine counterpart of this word)
Common questions
- How do you say "receptive" in Arabic?
- قَابِلَة (qābila) — the feminine active participle of qabila, 'to accept or receive willingly.'
- What root does qābila come from, and what else shares it?
- It comes from ق ب ل (q-b-l), the root behind qabila 'to accept,' qābala 'to face or meet,' and aqbala 'to advance, come forward.'
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).