Arabic vocabulary
How to say “excels” in Arabic, with pronunciation and real example sentences from OpenArabic texts.
من برع فيه ولزم العدالة والورع عاش حميدا ومات فقيدا،
Whoever excels in it, adheres to justice and piety, lives with honor, and dies esteemed.
بَرَعَ — he excels. A past verb 'excelled / became expert', subject 'he' inside — the first condition. It pairs with the pronoun-preposition next to say in what he excels. The doer is sealed in the verb.
From: Intention in Islam →فإن برعت في الأصول وتوابعها من المنطق والحكمة والفلسفة، وآراء الأوائل ومجازات العقول،
So if you excel in the fundamentals and their appendages of logic, wisdom, philosophy, and the views of the ancients and the metaphors of minds,
بَرَعْتَ — you excel. A past-tense verb meaning you excelled, with the 'you' subject marked by its ending. In the condition the past form is standard even for a hypothetical, so it reads 'if you excel', the conditional frame supplying the timing.
From: Unity Over Partisanship →OpenArabic teaches words like بَرَعَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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