Arabic vocabulary
فَدَى is how you say “ransom” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
فَقَالَ لَهُ القامر أشْرب مَا فِي النَّهر وَإِلَّا فافتد مِنْهُ
So the winner said to him, 'Drink what is in the river, or ransom yourself from it.'
فَافْتَدِ — ransom yourself. 'fa-' = 'then'; command 'iftadi' = 'ransom yourself!, buy your way out!'; 'you' is built in.
From: Luqman's Response to Injustice →OpenArabic teaches words like فَدَى through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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