Arabic vocabulary
تَمَنَّى is how you say “wished” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
الْعَاجِزُ مَنْ أَتَّبَعَ نَفْسَهُ هَوَاهَا وَتَمَنَّى عَلَى اللَّهِ الأَمَانِيَ
The helpless one is the one who follows his own self its desire and wishes on Allah the wishes.
وَتَمَنَّى — and wished. The wa- on the front coordinates a second past-tense verb with 'follows', so the same subject does both. The conjunction joins two habitual actions of the same person, 'follows... and wishes...', sharing one doer built into the verbs.
From: Three States of the Heart →OpenArabic teaches words like تَمَنَّى through real bilingual reading with native audio and spaced-repetition practice.
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