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أَقْلَق
to worry (someone), to make anxious /ˈʔaqlaqa/
verbA1#661 most common
Also: to disturb, to disquiet, to trouble, to unsettle, to make uneasy
Example sentences
أَقْلَقَ الوَلَدُ أُمَّهُ.
The boy worried his mother.
أَقْلَقَني الخَبَرُ كَثيراً.
The news worried me a lot.
أَقْلَقَتْ نَتيجَةُ الفَحْصِ الطَّبيبَ.
The test result worried the doctor.
ما زالَ غِيابُهُ الطَّويلُ يُقْلِقُ زُمَلاءَهُ في العَمَلِ.
His long absence still worries his colleagues at work.
أَقْلَقَني أَنَّ الأَسْعارَ تَرْتَفِعُ دونَ أَنْ تَرْتَفِعَ الأُجورُ مَعَها.
It worried me that prices are rising without wages rising with them.
لَمْ يُقْلِقْهُ النَّقْدُ بِقَدْرِ ما أَقْلَقَهُ صَمْتُ مَنْ كانَ يَنْتَظِرُ مِنْهُمُ التَّأْييدَ.
The criticism did not worry him as much as the silence of those whose support he had expected.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أُقْلِقُ | أَقْلَقْتُ | سَأُقْلِقُ |
| 2sg | تُقْلِقُ | أَقْلَقْتَ | سَتُقْلِقُ |
| 3sg | يُقْلِقُ | أَقْلَقَ | سَيُقْلِقُ |
| 1pl | نُقْلِقُ | أَقْلَقْنا | سَنُقْلِقُ |
| 2pl | تُقْلِقونَ | أَقْلَقْتُمْ | سَتُقْلِقونَ |
| 3pl | يُقْلِقونَ | أَقْلَقوا | سَيُقْلِقونَ |
Word family
قَلَقanxiety, worryقَلِقanxious, uneasy
قَلِقَto be worried
مُقْلِقworrying, disturbing
إِقْلاقthe act of disturbing or disquieting
Etymology
أَقْلَقَ is the Form IV (causative) verb from the triliteral root ق-ل-ق, which carries the sense of anxiety and restlessness. The base verb قَلِقَ means to be worried or uneasy. The Form IV pattern turns that inner state into an action done to another person: to make someone anxious. The root is Semitic and has no Indo-European origin.
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