Arabic vocabulary

أخذtake in Arabic

أخذ is how you say “take” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.

Example sentences

فقال العطار خذ هذا الدواء واجعله في إحدى عينيه
The herbalist said, 'Take this medicine and put it in one of its eyes.'
خذ — take. A command-verb, 'take', the bare order shape addressed to 'you'. It opens the herbalist's quoted instruction.
From: Reflections on Literal Obedience →
فأخذ جحا الدواء وذهب به إلى الحمار ووضعه في عينه،
Joha took the medicine and went to the donkey and put it in its eye,
فأخذ — so he took. The connector 'so' fused to a past-tense verb, 'took', whose subject is named right after. It carries the story to Joha's action.
From: Reflections on Literal Obedience →

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