تابع

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تابع¹

verb تَابَعَ · tābaʕa · يُتَابِعُ · مُتَابَعَة · تِبَاع

  1. to continue, carry on
  2. to pursue, follow
  3. to observe, examine
  4. to search for, seek

تابع²

Where it comes from

Derived from the active participle of تَبِعَ (tabiʕa, “to follow”).

adjective تَابِع · tābiʕ · تَابِعَة · تَابِعُون · تُبَّاع · تَبَعَة

  1. following, succeeding, subsequent
  2. subsidiary, dependent
  3. minor, secondary
  4. subordinate, under

noun تَابِع · tābiʕ · تَابِعُون · تُبَّاع · تَبَعَة · تُبَّع

  1. follower, adherent, partisan
  2. subject, citizen, national
  3. servant, minion
  4. factotum

noun تَابِع · tābiʕ · تَوَابِع · التَّابِع

  1. a word that agrees with another word in grammatical case
  2. rare function

    Similar: دَالَّة

  3. appendix, addendum, supplement

In English

  • function mathematics: a relation between a set of inputs and a set of permissible outputs
  • minion loyal servant of another more powerful being
  • follower one who follows
  • follow to keep track of
  • satellite a body orbiting a larger one
  • continue transitive: proceed

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {تابع},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8%D8%B9},
  urldate = {2026-11-07}
}

The meanings are in English: this language's words come from the English Wiktionary. From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Recordings from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own free license: Ar-تابع.ogg.