Arabic vocabulary

فَأَرَادَso he intended in Arabic

فَأَرَادَ is how you say “so he intended” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.

Example sentences

وَهُوَ عَنْ أَحَدِهِمَا أَرْضَى فَأَرَادَ أَنْ يَجْعَلَ لَهُ فِي حَيَّاتِهِ ثُلْثَيَ مَالِهِ
And he favored one of them, so he intended to give him two-thirds of his wealth during his lifetime.
فاراد — so he intended. A past-tense verb 'intended' opened by the attached 'so', marking the resulting decision. The 'so' presents the intending as the consequence of the favoring; the verb governs the purpose-clause after it.
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