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أَنْجَب
to beget; to give birth to (a child) /ˈʔan.dʒa.ba/
verbB2#3665 most common
Also: to have children, to produce (a notable person)
Example sentences
أَنْجَبَتِ الأُمُّ وَلَدًا.
The mother gave birth to a boy.
أَنْجَبَ أَبِي وَأُمِّي أَرْبَعَةَ أَبْنَاءٍ.
My father and mother had four children.
كَمْ وَلَدًا أَنْجَبَتْ هَذِهِ الْعَائِلَةُ؟
How many children has this family had?
أَنْجَبَتْ مِصْرُ عُلَمَاءَ كِبَارًا عَبْرَ تَارِيخِهَا.
Egypt has produced great scholars throughout its history.
لَمْ تُنْجِبِ الزَّوْجَةُ بَعْدَ سَنَوَاتٍ مِنَ الزَّوَاجِ، مِمَّا دَفَعَهُمَا إِلَى اسْتِشَارَةِ طَبِيبٍ.
The wife had not had children after years of marriage, which led the couple to consult a doctor.
تُعَدُّ هَذِهِ الْمَدِينَةُ مِنَ الْأَمَاكِنِ الَّتِي أَنْجَبَتْ أَعْظَمَ الشُّعَرَاءِ وَالْمُفَكِّرِينَ فِي التَّارِيخِ الْعَرَبِيِّ.
This city is counted among the places that produced the greatest poets and thinkers in Arab history.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أُنْجِبُ | أَنْجَبْتُ | سَأُنْجِبُ |
| 2sg | تُنْجِبُ | أَنْجَبْتَ | سَتُنْجِبُ |
| 3sg | يُنْجِبُ | أَنْجَبَ | سَيُنْجِبُ |
| 1pl | نُنْجِبُ | أَنْجَبْنَا | سَنُنْجِبُ |
| 2pl | تُنْجِبُونَ | أَنْجَبْتُمْ | سَتُنْجِبُونَ |
| 3pl | يُنْجِبُونَ | أَنْجَبُوا | سَيُنْجِبُونَ |
Word family
نَجِيبnoble, excellent, of good stock
نَجَابَةnobility or excellence of lineage
إِنْجَابprocreation, the act of having children
مُنْجِبfertile, one who begets children
Etymology
أَنْجَب comes from the triliteral Semitic root ن-ج-ب (n-j-b), which carries the sense of nobility or excellence in stock. The verb is built on the Form IV pattern (أَفْعَلَ), which often makes a root causative: it turns the idea of being noble or excellent into the act of producing someone excellent. Over time the verb settled into everyday use for simply having or bearing a child, though it keeps a formal, slightly elevated tone. It is unrelated to Indo-European vocabulary, so no PIE root applies.
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