انقلب

• IPA^(key): /in.qa.la.ba/

اِنْقَلَبَ • (inqalaba) VII (non-past يَنْقَلِبُ (yanqalibu), verbal noun اِنْقِلَاب (inqilāb))

1. to be turned upside down or topsy-turvy, to be overturned
2. to be converted, to change, to transform [with accusative or إِلَى (ʔilā) ‘into something’]
3. (copulative) to become [with accusative or إِلَى (ʔilā) ‘something’]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:صار

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 7:119:

     فَغُلِبُوا هُنَالِكَ وَانْقَلَبُوا صَاغِرِينَ

     faḡulibū hunālika wānqalabū ṣāḡirīna

     They were defeated there and became humble

4. to veer, to turn, to turn around [with إِلَى (ʔilā) ‘to someone/something’ or عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘against someone/something’]
5. to be turned [with إِلَى (ʔilā) ‘towards someone’]
6. to proceed suddenly [with imperfect ‘to do something’]

• اِنْقَلَبَ السِّحْرُ عَلَى السَّاحِرِ (inqalaba s-siḥru ʕalā s-sāḥiri, idiom)
• اِنْقَلَبَ عَلَى عَقِبَيْهِ (inqalaba ʕalā ʕaqibayhi, idiom)
• اِنْقَلَبَ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ (inqalaba ʕalā wajhihi, idiom)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “انقلب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

From Arabic اِنْقَلَبَ (inqalaba).

• IPA^(key): /an.ɡa.lab/

انقلب • (angalab) VII (non-past يِنْقَلِب (yingalib))

1. to be turned upside down or topsy-turvy, to be overturned