Arabic vocabulary
اسْتِقْبَالِto receive
How to say “to receive” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
حَتَّى السُّوَيْعَاتِ الَّتِي يَضْطَرُّ فِيهَا لِاسْتِقْبَالِ زَائِرِيهِ،
Even the brief moments when he was compelled to receive his visitors,
لِاسْتِقْبَالِ — to receive. The preposition li- ('for/to') prefixed to an action noun, 'for receiving'. Li- marks the purpose the compulsion served, and it governs the action noun into the genitive. The action noun lets a whole activity, receiving guests, be governed as a single noun.
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