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اشْتَرَى buy in Arabic

اشْتَرَى is how you say “buy” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَكَانَ لرجل من بني إِسْرَائِيل اشْتَرَاهُ بِثَلَاثِينَ مِثْقَالا ونش يعْنى نصف مِثْقَال

And he was bought by a man from the Children of Israel for thirty mithqals and a half mithqal.

اشْتَرَاهُ bought him

Past-tense verb 'ishtara' = 'he bought'; '-hu' = 'him', so 'bought him'.

From Luqman's Response to Injustice

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More example sentences

أن رجلاً اشترى دبسًا عسل التمر من السوق،

A man bought date molasses from the market,

اشْتَرَى bought

A bare past verb with 'he' built in; its weak-final root softens the ending. No separate subject is needed.

From Heedless Choices

فَاشْتَرَاهُ مِنِّي بِأُوقِيَّةٍ،

Then he bought it from me for a small coin.

فَأَشْتَرَاهُ then he bought it

The prefix fa- carries the story to its next step ('then'), and the verb 'bought' has an attached -hu ('it') as its object. That 'it' points back to the camel, so the one word means 'then he bought it'.

From Marriage and Financial Justice

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