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مُتَبَقِّي
remaining, leftover (the remainder) /mu.ta.baq.ˈqiː/
nounB1#2701 most common
Also: residual, what is left, outstanding (of an amount)
Example sentences
كم الوقت المتبقي؟
How much time is left?
هذا هو المبلغ المتبقي من راتبي.
This is the remaining amount from my salary.
أنفقنا الأيام المتبقية من الإجازة في الشاطئ.
We spent the remaining days of the vacation at the beach.
يجب توزيع الطعام المتبقي على الفقراء قبل نهاية اليوم.
The leftover food must be distributed to the poor before the end of the day.
بعد انسحاب معظم الجنود، ظل عدد قليل من المقاتلين المتبقين يدافعون عن المدينة.
After most of the soldiers withdrew, a small number of the remaining fighters kept defending the city.
تشير التقديرات إلى أن الاحتياطي المتبقي من النفط لن يكفي أكثر من عقدين في ظل معدلات الاستهلاك الحالية.
Estimates indicate that the remaining oil reserve will not last more than two decades given current consumption rates.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مُتَبَقٍّ | مُتَبَقُّونَ |
| Genitive | مُتَبَقٍّ | مُتَبَقِّينَ |
| Accusative | مُتَبَقِّيًا | مُتَبَقِّينَ |
| Vocative | يا مُتَبَقِّي | يا مُتَبَقُّونَ |
Word family
تَبَقَّىto remain, be left over
بَقِيَto stay, remain
بَقِيَّةremainder, remnant
باقٍremaining, still left
أَبْقَىto keep, retain (causative)Etymology
The word comes from the Semitic root ب-ق-ي (b-q-y), meaning to remain, stay, or last. مُتَبَقِّي is the active participle of the Form V verb تَبَقَّى, to remain or be left over. Arabic is a Semitic language, so it has no Indo-European ancestry and no PIE root.
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