اخترع

From the root خ ر ع‎ (ḵ-r-ʕ).

اِخْتَرَعَ • (iḵtaraʕa) VIII, non-past يَخْتَرِعُ‎‎ (yaḵtariʕu)

1. (transitive) to invent

   ‏مَا أَبْرَزُ مَا ٱخْتَرَعَهُ ٱلْيَابَانِيُّونَ فِي ٱلْقَرْنِ ٱلْمَاضِي؟‎‎

   mā ʔabrazu mā ḵtaraʕahu l-yābāniyyūna fī l-qarni l-māḍī?

   What of the last-century Japanese inventions was the most notable?

   Synonym: اِبْتَدَعَ‎ (ibtadaʕa)

2. (transitive, archaic) to split off

   Synonyms: اِكْتَسَرَ‎ (iktasara, “to break off”), اِقْتَطَعَ‎ (iqtaṭaʕa, “to cut off”), اِخْتَزَلَ‎ (iḵtazala, “to chop off; to hack off”)

   1. (transitive, obsolete) to misappropriate

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• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “اخترع”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

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• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /ɪχtɪrəʕ/

اِخْتِرَع • (iḵtiraʿ) (imperfect يِخْتِرِع‎ (yiḵtiriʿ))

1. (transitive) to invent

   ‏منو اخترع نواة لنكس؟‎‎

   Who invented [the] Linux Kernel?

2. (intransitive) to be frightened, to be scared, to be afraid

   Synonym: خاف‎ (ḵāf)

   ‏شفيكم عسى ما اخترعتوا من الظلمة‎

   What's up with you, I hope you did not get scared of the dark

• خرع‎ (ḵarraʕ, “causative form of sense 2; to scare, to frighten”)

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• IPA^(key): /ix.ta.raʕ/, [ɪxˈta.raʕ]

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اخترع • (iḵtaraʕ) VIII (present بخترع‎ (biḵtreʕ))

1. to invent

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