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تابِع
affiliated (with) / subordinate, belonging to /ˈtaː.biʕ/
adjectiveB1#2823 most common
Also: subordinate, dependent, following, satellite (of)
Example sentences
هذا المتجر تابع لشركة كبيرة.
This store belongs to a large company.
القمر تابع للأرض.
The moon is a satellite of the Earth.
المدرسة التي أدرس فيها تابعة للحكومة.
The school where I study is run by the government.
أصبحت الشركة الصغيرة تابعة لمجموعة دولية بعد عملية الاستحواذ.
The small company became a subsidiary of an international group after the acquisition.
ظل الإقليم تابعا لسلطة الإمبراطورية لعدة قرون قبل أن يستقل.
The region remained subordinate to the empire's authority for several centuries before it gained independence.
يحلل الكتاب كيف تكرّس العلاقات التابعة بين الاقتصادات الهامشية والمراكز الرأسمالية الكبرى أنماط التبعية التاريخية.
The book analyzes how dependent relations between marginal economies and major capitalist centers entrench historical patterns of dependency.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | تابِعٌ | تابِعُونَ |
| Genitive | تابِعٍ | تابِعِينَ |
| Accusative | تابِعًا | تابِعِينَ |
| Vocative | يا تابِعُ | يا تابِعُونَ |
Word family
تَبِعَto follow, come after
تَبَعِيّةdependency, subordination
أتباعfollowers, adherents
مُتابَعةfollow-up, tracking, monitoring
تَوابِعsatellites, annexes, appendages
Etymology
تابِع comes from the Arabic triliteral root ت-ب-ع (t-b-ʕ), whose core verb تَبِعَ means "to follow, come after, pursue." تابِع is the active-participle form of this verb, built on the common فاعِل pattern used to mean "the one doing the action." Arabic is a Semitic language, so this word has no Indo-European root; its relatives lie instead in other Semitic languages.
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