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ر-ب-ع
four
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أَرْبَعَةٌ
four (4)
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أَرْبَعٌ with feminine nouns; أَرْبَعُونَ forty
الْأَرْبِعَاءُ
Wednesday ('day four')
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فَاعِل رَابِعٌ
fourth
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- Feminine
- رَابِعَةٌ
فُعْل رُبْعٌ
a quarter
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- Plural
- أَرْبَاعٌ
السَّاعَةُ الثَّالِثَةُ وَالرُّبْعُ a quarter past three
مُفَعَّل مُرَبَّعٌ
square
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مِتْرٌ مُرَبَّعٌ square metre
فَعِيل Adjective فَعِيل
فَعِيل = a lasting quality (or the person who has it)
See this pattern across the mapرَبِيعٌ
spring (the season); the months رَبِيعُ الْأَوَّلِ and رَبِيعُ الثَّانِي
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فَعْلِيّ رُبَاعِيٌّ
four-part; quadriliteral
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الْجَذْرُ الرُّبَاعِيُّ the four-letter root
How the patterns shape this root
أَرْبَعَة is four, رَابِع (فَاعِل) fourth, الْأَرْبِعَاء Wednesday — 'day four'. رُبْع is a quarter: السَّاعَةُ الثَّالِثَةُ وَالرُّبْعُ, a quarter past three. مُرَبَّع (مُفَعَّل), 'made four-sided', is a square, as in مِتْرٌ مُرَبَّعٌ. رَبِيع is spring, the season, and the name of two months of the Islamic year; رُبَاعِيّ is four-part — الْجَذْرُ الرُّبَاعِيُّ is a four-letter root like ت-ر-ج-م.
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