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اسْتِقْبَالِ to receive in Arabic

اسْتِقْبَالِ is how you say “to receive” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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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