Arabic vocabulary
How to say “end” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
لذلك وُضِعَتِ التسميةُ في مواضعَ ثابتة على الطعام، وعند الدخول والخروج، وعلى السكين والقلم ولوحة المفاتيح؛ لتتعلّم أنّ العملَ يبدأ بالله وينتهي إليه
Thus, naming was placed in fixed locations: over food, when entering and exiting, over the knife, pen, and keyboard; to teach that every action begins with Allah and ends with Him.
وَيَنْتَهِي — and ends. 'and ends', a second present verb joined by 'wa', subject 'it' inside — the deed's other bookend.
From: Remembrance That Reshapes the Heart →حَتَّى اِنْتَهَيْتُ إِلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَقَدْ رُوِيَ الْقَوْمُ كُلُّهُمْ،
I came to the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and by then the whole group had been given to drink.
اِنْتَهَيْتُ — I came. A past verb 'I reached / came to the end', with 'I' built in; it comes from a pattern meaning 'arrive at the finish'. Here it marks the narrator completing his circuit at the Prophet. The 'I' is inside the verb.
From: Generosity to the Poor →OpenArabic teaches words like اِنْتَهَى through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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