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جَذَب
to pull /ˈdʒa.ða.ba/
verbB2#4074 most common
Also: to draw, to attract
Example sentences
جَذَبَ الوَلَدُ الحَبْلَ.
The boy pulled the rope.
جَذَبَتِ الصُّورَةُ انْتِباهي.
The picture caught my attention.
يَجْذِبُ المِغْناطيسُ الحَديدَ.
The magnet attracts iron.
جَذَبَتْ هذِهِ المَدينَةُ آلافَ السُّيّاحِ في الصَّيفِ.
This city attracted thousands of tourists in the summer.
تُحاوِلُ الشَّرِكَةُ أَنْ تَجْذِبَ المُسْتَثمِرينَ الأَجانِبَ بِعُروضٍ مُغرِيَةٍ.
The company is trying to attract foreign investors with tempting offers.
جُذِبَ الجُمهورُ إلى خِطابِهِ رَغمَ غُموضِ بَعضِ أَفكارِهِ.
The audience was drawn to his speech despite the vagueness of some of his ideas.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَجْذِبُ | جَذَبْتُ | سَأَجْذِبُ |
| 2sg | تَجْذِبُ | جَذَبْتَ | سَتَجْذِبُ |
| 3sg | يَجْذِبُ | جَذَبَ | سَيَجْذِبُ |
| 1pl | نَجْذِبُ | جَذَبْنا | سَنَجْذِبُ |
| 2pl | تَجْذِبُونَ | جَذَبْتُمْ | سَتَجْذِبُونَ |
| 3pl | يَجْذِبُونَ | جَذَبُوا | سَيَجْذِبُونَ |
Word family
جاذِبِيَّةgravity; personal charisma or appeal
جَذَّابattractive, appealing, charming
انْجَذَبَto be drawn or attracted (to something)
جاذِبattracting, alluring
مَجْذوبone who is drawn in; in Sufi usage, a person in a state of spiritual rapture
Etymology
جَذَب comes from the triliteral Semitic root ج-ذ-ب (j-ḏ-b), which carries the core sense of pulling or drawing something toward oneself. Arabic is a Semitic language, not an Indo-European one, so it has no Proto-Indo-European ancestor. The root appears across the Form I verb and a wide family of derived nouns and adjectives dealing with attraction, both physical and figurative.
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