عَمَدَto resort to

Example sentences

• فَمَنَعَهُمْ مِنَ الاِسْتِصْبَاحِ فِي اللَّيْلَةِ الْقَابِلَةِ، فَعَمَدَ الْفَضْلُ إِلَى الْقُمْقُمِْ مَمْلُوءٍ،

  So he prevented them from having a light on the following night, and so al-Fadl reached toward the flask full of water.

  فَعَمَدَ — and so he reached toward. The front fa- gives a 'and so' sequencing force, and the verb beneath it is a completed-action 'set out / made for' with its subject built in. It is then followed by a 'toward' phrase naming where he headed. So the word marks the next narrative step and leans on the coming preposition for its goal.

  From: A Son Protecting His Father →