Arabic vocabulary
بَايَعَ is how you say “pledged allegiance” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فصل لما بَايع الرَّسُول أهل الْعقبَة أَمر أَصْحَابه بِالْهِجْرَةِ إِلَى الْمَدِينَة
When the Messenger pledged allegiance with the people of Aqabah, he instructed his companions to migrate to Medina.
بَايَعَ — pledged allegiance. A past-tense engage-with (form III) verb 'gave / took a pledge of allegiance', its subject coming next. The form-III shape marks a mutual act, the two-way oath.
From: The Night of the Migration →OpenArabic teaches words like بَايَعَ through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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