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رَجَع
to return /ˈra.dʒa.ʕa/
verbA2#744 most common
Also: to come back, to go back, to revert
Example sentences
رَجَعَ أَبِي مِنَ الْعَمَلِ.
My father came back from work.
رَجَعْتُ إِلَى الْبَيْتِ فِي السَّاعَةِ الْخَامِسَةِ.
I returned home at five o'clock.
هَلْ رَجَعَتْ أُخْتُكَ مِنَ الْمَدْرَسَةِ؟
Did your sister come back from school?
بَعْدَ سَنَوَاتٍ فِي الْخَارِجِ، رَجَعَ إِلَى وَطَنِهِ لِيَبْدَأَ مَشْرُوعًا جَدِيدًا.
After years abroad, he returned to his homeland to start a new project.
عِنْدَمَا رَجَعْنَا إِلَى الْقَرْيَةِ، وَجَدْنَا أَنَّ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ قَدْ تَغَيَّرَ.
When we returned to the village, we found that everything had changed.
لَمْ يَكَدِ النِّقَاشُ يَنْتَهِي حَتَّى رَجَعَ الْجَمِيعُ إِلَى مَوَاقِفِهِمِ الْأُولَى الْمُتَصَلِّبَةِ.
The discussion had barely ended before everyone reverted to their original entrenched positions.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَرْجِعُ | رَجَعْتُ | سَأَرْجِعُ |
| 2sg | تَرْجِعُ | رَجَعْتَ | سَتَرْجِعُ |
| 3sg | يَرْجِعُ | رَجَعَ | سَيَرْجِعُ |
| 1pl | نَرْجِعُ | رَجَعْنَا | سَنَرْجِعُ |
| 2pl | تَرْجِعُونَ | رَجَعْتُمْ | سَتَرْجِعُونَ |
| 3pl | يَرْجِعُونَ | رَجَعُوا | سَيَرْجِعُونَ |
Word family
رُجُوعreturn, a coming back
مَرْجِعreference, source, authority
رَاجَعَto review, revise, consult
اِسْتَرْجَعَto retrieve, recover
رَجْعَةa return; in Islamic law, taking back a wife after revocable divorce
Etymology
رَجَع comes from the Semitic triliteral root ر-ج-ع (r-j-ʿ), which carries the sense of going back or turning around. The same root yields a broad family of Arabic words about return, reference, and reversal. Arabic is a Semitic language, so it has no Proto-Indo-European root.
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