(ن) اَخَذَ يَاْخُذُ اَخْذًاakhadha yākhudhu akhdhan: to encompass a thing; with this basic sense it is used in various meanings: to seize, to take, to overpower. ﴿لَا تَاْخُذُهُۥ سِنَةٌ وَّلَا نَوْمٌ﴾ (Al-Baqarah 2:255)
خُذْkhudh (imperative (amr)): seize, take. ﴿خُذِ الْعَفْوَ﴾ (Al-Aʿrāf 7:199)
اٰخِذٌakhidh (active participle (ism fāʿil)): one who seizes, one who takes. ﴿اٰخِذِيْنَ مَآ اٰتٰىهُمْ رَبُّهُمْ﴾ (Adh-Dhāriyāt 51:16)
Form III (mufāʿalah) اٰخَذَ يُؤَاخِذُ مُؤَاخَذَةًakhadha yuʾākhidhu muʾākhadhatan: to take someone to task for a fault, to call to account. ﴿لَا يُؤَاخِذُكُمُ اللّٰهُ بِاللَّغْوِ فِيْٓ اَيْمَانِكُمْ﴾ (Al-Baqarah 2:225)
Form VIII (iftiʿāl) اِتَّخَذَ يَتَّخِذُ اِتِّخَاذًاittakhadha yattakhidhu ittikhādhan: to make someone into something (that is, to take hold of deliberately), as in to take as a friend; it takes two objects: whom one made, and what one made him. ﴿وَاتَّخَذَ اللّٰهُ اِبْرٰهِيْمَ خَلِيْلًا﴾ (An-Nisāʾ 4:125)
اِتَّخِذْittakhidh (imperative (amr)): take (as). ﴿فَاتَّخِذْهُ وَكِيْلًا﴾ (Al-Muzzammil 73:9); مُتَّخِذٌmuttakhidh (active participle (ism fāʿil)): one who takes (as). ﴿وَمَا كُنْتُ مُتَّخِذَ الْمُضِلِّيْنَ عَضُدًا﴾ (Al-Kahf 18:51)