I encourage everyone studying Arabic to understand it in Arabic and understand the various meanings for words in different contexts, this is far superior and more beneficial. Don’t worry about translations and translating what you learn, understand it in Arabic, the skill to translate will come later with practice insha Allah.Or it may not come, but who cares as long as you understand Arabic…?
A side point for clarity, this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t look up the English meanings for words, no, what Ustaath Nasir gave you is the way to do it, he taught us the concept of what the word means in English. This is a perfect example of how to do it. What I caution from the dictionary learners who translate every word without understanding its concept, I hope that makes sense. These type of students have poor understanding and are very bad in conversation.
Arabic question: Could someone tell me the meaning of:
يُصِيبُهَا
in the hadith:
إِنَّمَا الأَعْمَالُ بِالنِّيَّاتِ، وَإِنَّمَا لِكُلِّ امْرِئٍ مَا نَوَى، فَمَنْ كَانَتْ هِجْرَتُهُ إِلَى دُنْيَا يُصِيبُهَا أَوْ إِلَى امْرَأَةٍ يَنْكِحُهَا فَهِجْرَتُهُ إِلَى مَا هَاجَرَ إِلَيْهِ
I thought that it would be from أصاب which in the Quran usually means “befall”, but I don’t see how it makes sense in this context. My understanding is (correct me if I’m wrong) that the doer of the action is the person who emigrates and the object (هَا) refers to the dunya. So what does the verb mean?

It carries the following meanings 👇

أَصَابَ

(هَدَفاً)

to hit (a target); to score (a goal, a hit, etc.)

أَصَابَ: أَتَى بِالصَّوَاب

to be right, be in the right, say or do the right thing, be correct; to hit the mark, hit the nail on the head

أَصَابَ: جَنَى، كَسَبَ، حَقَّقَ

to get, obtain, acquire, gain, win, earn, reap, harvest; to attain, achieve, accomplish, realize; to incur, bring upon oneself

أَصَابَ (مِنَ الطَّعَامِ إلخ): تَنَاوَلَ، أَخَذَ

to have, eat; to take

أَصَابَ: اِنْتابَ، حَلَّ بِـ، حَصَلَ لِـ

to befall, afflict, hit, strike, attack, affect, come over, come upon, happen to, occur to

أَصَابَ بِمَرَضٍ أو بِعَدْوَى

to infect with; to communicate to, transmit to, pass along to

أُصِيبَ بِـ

to be stricken by, hit by, attacked by, smitten by, afflicted with, befallen by, affected by, infected by; to suffer, sustain, undergo, experience; to catch, contract, incur, be or become liable or subject to