Arabic

Verb

قَعَدَ • ‎(qaʿada) I, non-past يَقْعُدُ‎ (yaqʿudu)

1. to sit down
2. to sit
3. to remain sitting, to abide, to dwell
4. to be pensioned
5. to roost
6. to invite to sit, to seat
7. to stand
8. to be stiff
9. to be idle
10. to desist (عَن ‎(ʿan) from), to cease
11. to bear no fruit every second year
12. to make a stand (بِ ‎(bi) against)
13. to neglect
14. to keep from
15. to prepare for war (intransitive)

Conjugation

References

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