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تَقْلِيد
imitation /taqˈliːd/
nounB1#2693 most common
Also: custom, tradition (usually plural تقاليد), counterfeiting, forgery, conformity to precedent (Islamic jurisprudence)
Example sentences
أنا أحب تقليد أبي.
I like imitating my father.
هذا تقليد قديم في قريتنا.
This is an old tradition in our village.
يحاول الطفل تقليد حركات والدته.
The child tries to imitate his mother's movements.
تختلف التقاليد العائلية من بلد إلى آخر.
Family traditions differ from one country to another.
يُعَدّ تقليد العلامات التجارية جريمة يعاقب عليها القانون.
Counterfeiting trademarks is a crime punished by law.
في الفقه الإسلامي، يشير التقليد إلى اتباع رأي المجتهد دون النظر في أدلته.
In Islamic jurisprudence, taqlid means following a jurist's opinion without examining its evidence.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | تقليدٌ | تقاليدُ |
| Genitive | تقليدٍ | تقاليدَ |
| Accusative | تقليدًا | تقاليدَ |
| Vocative | يا تقليدُ | يا تقاليدُ |
Word family
قلّدto imitate; to invest with an office
مُقَلِّدimitator, forger
مُقَلَّدcounterfeit, imitated
تقليديtraditional, conventional
تقاليدtraditions, customs
Etymology
تقليد is the verbal noun of the Form II verb قلّد, built on the triliteral root ق ل د, whose core sense is 'collar' or 'neck-ring'. The verb first meant 'to place a collar or chain around someone's neck', a gesture used to formally invest a person with an office. From there the meaning widened to 'to follow someone's example as if bound to them', and finally settled into the modern sense of 'imitation' or 'copying'. Arabic is a Semitic language, not Indo-European, so it has no Proto-Indo-European root.
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