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أَتْباع

followers /ʔatˈbaːʕ/

nounB2#4279 most common

Also: adherents, subordinates, retinue

Example sentences

له أَتْباع كثيرون.

He has many followers.

أَتْباع الزعيم يحبونه.

The leader's followers love him.

انضم أَتْباع جدد إلى الحزب هذا العام.

New followers joined the party this year.

كان للنبي أَتْباع مخلصون في كل مكان.

The prophet had loyal followers everywhere.

تفرق أَتْباع الفكرة بعد وفاة مؤسسها.

The idea's followers scattered after its founder died.

نجح القائد في توحيد أَتْباعه المتناحرين تحت راية واحدة رغم اختلاف مشاربهم.

The leader managed to unite his feuding followers under one banner despite their differing backgrounds.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	تابعٌ	أَتْباعٌ
Genitive	تابعٍ	أَتْباعٍ
Accusative	تابعًا	أَتْباعًا
Vocative	يا تابعُ	يا أَتْباعُ

Word family

تابعfollower, subordinate (singular)

تَبِعَto follow

يَتْبَعhe follows

اتّباعfollowing, adherence, imitation

مُتابعةtracking, monitoring, following up

Etymology

أَتْباع comes from the Arabic triliteral root ت-ب-ع, which carries the sense of following or coming after. تابع is the singular, meaning a follower or subordinate, and أَتْباع is its broken plural, formed on the أَفْعَال pattern common for masculine nouns denoting people or things. The word has been used since classical Arabic to describe those who follow a leader, a doctrine, or a movement.

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