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تاق
to long for, yearn for /ˈtaː.qa/
verbB2#4350 most common
Also: to crave, to be eager for
Example sentences
تاق الطفل إلى أمه.
The child longed for his mother.
تاقت إلى رؤية أصدقائها القدامى.
She longed to see her old friends.
يتوق الطلاب إلى العطلة الصيفية.
The students long for the summer vacation.
تاق الشاعر إلى وطنه الذي غادره منذ سنوات.
The poet longed for his homeland, which he had left years ago.
كانت الأمة تتوق إلى الحرية والاستقلال بعد عقود من الاحتلال.
The nation longed for freedom and independence after decades of occupation.
لطالما تاقت نفسه إلى معرفة الحقيقة، مهما كلّفه ذلك من عناء ومشقة.
His soul had always longed to know the truth, whatever toil and hardship it cost him.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أتوق | تُقتُ | سأتوق |
| 2sg | تتوق | تُقتَ | ستتوق |
| 3sg | يتوق | تاقَ | سيتوق |
| 1pl | نتوق | تُقنا | سنتوق |
| 2pl | تتوقون | تُقتم | ستتوقون |
| 3pl | يتوقون | تاقوا | سيتوقون |
Word family
توقlonging, yearning
تواقyearning, eager, longing
اشتاقto miss, to long for (related root, far more common in daily speech)
اشتياقlonging, nostalgia
مشتاقmissing someone, longing
Etymology
تاق comes from the Semitic root ت-و-ق (t-w-q), which carries the sense of longing or craving. The verb follows the hollow-verb pattern: the middle radical و merges with the preceding vowel to become the long alif in تاق. The same root gives rise to nouns like توق (longing) and تواق (yearning, eager).
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