Be

"Be" in Arabic

بيبقى

beyebʔā

(auxiliary: used to form the passive voice)

بيتعمل

beyetʕemel

(auxiliary: used to form the passive voice)

بيفضل

beyefḍal

(auxiliary: used to form the continuous aspect of various tenses)

عمال

ʕammāl

(auxiliary: used to form the continuous aspect of various tenses)

كان

kān

(to occupy a place)

كَانَ

kāna

(used to declare the subject and object identical or equivalent)

كَانَ

kāna

(used to indicate that the subject plays the role of the predicate nominal)

كَانَ

kāna

(used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by an adjective)

كَانَ

kāna

(intransitive, non-copulative (usually literary in English): to exist; to have real existence)

كَانَ

kāna

(to occupy a place)

كَانَ

kāna

(to occur, take place)

كَانَ هُوَ

kāna

(used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase)

موجود

mawgūd

(intransitive, non-copulative (usually literary in English): to exist; to have real existence)

هِيَ

hiya

(used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase)

يبقى

yebʔā

(used to declare the subject and object identical or equivalent)

يبقى

yebʔā

(used to indicate that the subject has the qualities described by a noun or noun phrase)

يبقى

yebʔā

(to occupy a place)

يساوى

yesāwī

(used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same)

يعمل

yeʕmel

(used to indicate that the values on either side of an equation are the same)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.