عاقبت

عاقبت (form III)

1. عَاقَبْتُ (ʕāqabtu) /ʕaː.qab.tu/: first-person singular past active of عَاقَبَ (ʕāqaba)
2. عَاقَبْتَ (ʕāqabta) /ʕaː.qab.ta/: second-person masculine singular past active of عَاقَبَ (ʕāqaba)
3. عَاقَبْتِ (ʕāqabti) /ʕaː.qab.ti/: second-person feminine singular past active of عَاقَبَ (ʕāqaba)
4. عَاقَبَتْ (ʕāqabat) /ʕaː.qa.bat/: third-person feminine singular past active of عَاقَبَ (ʕāqaba)

Borrowed from Arabic عَاقِبَة (ʕāqiba).

عاقِبَت • (âqebat) (plural عَواقِب (avâqeb))

1. consequence, repercussion

   عواقب زلزله ― avâqeb-e zelzele ― consequences of the earthquake

عاقِبَت • (âqebat)

1. finally; in the end

   Synonyms: سرانجام (sarânjâm), بالاخره (belaxare)

   • c. 1390, Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfiẓ, “Ghazal 8”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Ḥāfiẓ]‎^[1]:

     صبر کن حافظ به سختی روز و شب
     عاقبت روزی بیابی کام را

     sabr kun hāfiz ba saxtī rōz u šab
     āqibat rōzē biyābī kām rā

     Ḥāfiẓ, be patient in hardship day and night,
     So that one day, you might at last attain your wish.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “عاقبت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim