LessonsActive Participles: Definition, Patterns, Paradigms and DerivationQuiz

اِجْتَنَبَ means “he avoided,” with active imperfect يَجْتَنِبُ. Replace initial yāʾ with mīm carrying ḍammah to obtain مُجْتَنِبٌ.
اِجْتَنَبَ ← يَجْتَنِبُ ← مُجْتَنِبٌ
Meaning: one who avoids or refrains.
The lexical radicals are jīm, nūn and bāʾ. The tāʾ belongs to the augmented morphological form and is retained in the derived participle.

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Deriving مُجْتَنِبٌ from اِجْتَنَبَ

Active Participles: Definition, Patterns, Paradigms and Derivation

اِجْتَنَبَ means “he avoided,” with active imperfect يَجْتَنِبُ. Replace initial yāʾ with mīm carrying ḍammah to obtain مُجْتَنِبٌ.
اِجْتَنَبَ ← يَجْتَنِبُ ← مُجْتَنِبٌ
Meaning: one who avoids or refrains.
The lexical radicals are jīm, nūn and bāʾ. The tāʾ belongs to the augmented morphological form and is retained in the derived participle.