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سَبَّب
to cause /sabˈbaba/
verbB1#1592 most common
Also: to bring about, to lead to, to give rise to
Example sentences
الدخان سَبَّبَ مشكلة.
The smoke caused a problem.
سَبَّبَ المطر تأخير الرحلة.
The rain caused the trip's delay.
التدخين يُسَبِّبُ أمراضاً خطيرة للرئتين.
Smoking causes serious lung diseases.
سَبَّبَتْ قراراته المتسرعة خسائر كبيرة للشركة.
His hasty decisions caused the company big losses.
لم أقصد أن أُسَبِّبَ لك أي إزعاج، وأعتذر عمّا حدث.
I did not mean to cause you any trouble, and I apologize for what happened.
إنّ الإهمال المتراكم على مدى سنوات هو ما سَبَّبَ انهيار البنية التحتية بأكملها.
It was the negligence accumulated over years that caused the collapse of the entire infrastructure.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أُسَبِّبُ | سَبَّبْتُ | سَأُسَبِّبُ |
| 2sg | تُسَبِّبُ | سَبَّبْتَ | سَتُسَبِّبُ |
| 3sg | يُسَبِّبُ | سَبَّبَ | سَيُسَبِّبُ |
| 1pl | نُسَبِّبُ | سَبَّبْنَا | سَنُسَبِّبُ |
| 2pl | تُسَبِّبُونَ | سَبَّبْتُمْ | سَتُسَبِّبُونَ |
| 3pl | يُسَبِّبُونَ | سَبَّبُوا | سَيُسَبِّبُونَ |
Word family
سَبَبcause, reason
تَسَبَّبَto bring about, be responsible for
مُسَبِّبcause, causative agent
سَبَبِيّcausal
أَسْبَابcauses, reasons (plural)
Etymology
The verb comes from the triliteral root س-ب-ب (s-b-b), whose core noun سَبَب means cause or reason. سَبَّب is the Form II (faʿʿala) derivation, where doubling the middle radical adds a causative sense. So the word literally turns the idea of a cause into the action of causing.
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