Arabic vocabulary
يَرْوَى is how you say “he is satisfied” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
فَأُعْطِيهِ الرَّجُلَ فَيَشْرَبُ حَتَّى يَرْوَى،
So I give it to the man, and he drinks until he is satisfied.
يَرْوَى — he is satisfied. A present-form verb 'become satisfied/quenched' in its subjunctive ending after 'until', with 'he' built in; from a weak-final root that reshapes the ending. It names the endpoint of the drinking. The subjunctive marks it as the aimed-at result.
From: Generosity to the Poor →فَأُعْطِيهِ الرَّجُلَ فَيَشْرَبُ حَتَّى يَرْوَى،
So I gave it to the man, and he drank until he was satisfied.
يَرْوَى — he was satisfied. A present-form verb 'become satisfied/quenched' in its subjunctive ending after 'until', with 'he' built in; from a weak-final root. It names the endpoint of the drinking. The subjunctive marks it as the aimed-at result.
From: Generosity to the Poor →OpenArabic teaches words like يَرْوَى through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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