Quranic root
أتي
ʾ · t · y
The root centers on coming or reaching a point, with extensions to bringing something into presence, causing it to arrive, and giving or assigning it to another.
The lexical development runs from coming and arrival to approaching, bringing or producing, acting upon an affair, and Form IV giving or granting. Related derivatives also describe facilitated access, channels, and things or persons that come from elsewhere.
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- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
أَتَى
ʾatā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form I
- Form
- I
- Quran occurrences
- 264 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To come, arrive, or reach; of a person, event, thing, or message, to come to a person or place.
Used both literally and of events, commands, punishment, and other things that arrive or become present. The imperative may mean “come” or, in a context involving an object, “bring.”
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 20:11word 2
“he came to it”
To bring, cause to come, or produce something for someone.
Especially occurs with بِ or with a direct object; the construction can mean bringing a person or thing, producing evidence or a requested object, or bringing something back to its destination.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 10:38word 5
“Then bring”
To undertake, engage in, do, perform, or commit an act or affair.
Used with prayer, sin, foul conduct, and other actions; the translation may vary between “do,” “perform,” and “commit” according to the object.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:15word 2
“commit”
To approach sexually or have sexual intercourse.
A conventional construction for sexual approach; the lexical evidence supports the construction without restricting it to the gender or social relation of an illustrative object.
- Lane · entry 6087
Selected Quran examples
Quran 26:165word 1
“Do you approach”
To come upon, overtake, and overwhelm; figuratively, to bring destruction or demolish.
With عَلَى or comparable constructions, an enemy, time, or divine action may come upon a person or thing, overcome it, destroy it, or bring it to an end.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 59:2word 23
“But came to them”
آتَى
ʾātā
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form IV
- Form
- IV
- Quran occurrences
- 271 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
To bring, convey, present, or cause something to come to someone.
The recipient may be expressed with إِلَى; the construction includes bringing or presenting an object and causing it to be present or conveyed.
- Lane · entry 6090
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:62word 5
“Bring us”
To give, grant, bestow, or provide.
Includes giving property, authority, knowledge, scripture, reward, or other benefits. In passive forms it means to be given, granted, or endowed.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 2:177word 19
“and gives”
To give as recompense or requital.
This meaning is explicitly associated with a reported Quran reading in which the verb is understood as Form IV; it is distinct from ordinary giving because the object is a recompense for an act or thing.
- Lane · entry 6089
إِيتَاءٌ
ʾītāʾun
- Part of speech
- Verbal noun
- Quran occurrences
- 3 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Giving, granting, or providing.
The Quranic verbal noun particularly occurs in the expression of giving the zakāh or another due or charitable payment.
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 16:90word 6
“and giving”
Quran 21:73word 11
“and giving”
آتٍ
ʾātin
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 9 occurrences
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Coming, forthcoming, or destined to arrive.
Used adjectivally of an event or time that is sure or expected to come; the Quranic occurrences are active-participial forms of أتى.
- Lane · entry 6102
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 15:85word 11
“(is) surely coming”
Quran 20:15word 3
“(will be) coming”
Quran 11:76word 11
“(will) come (for) them”
مَأْتِيٌّ
maʾtiyyun
- Part of speech
- Passive participle
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
That which is come to, reached, or fulfilled; sure to come.
In the Quranic promise expression, the promised matter is described as مَأْتِيًّا, either as something that comes or as something to which one comes, hence something certain to be realized.
- Lane · entry 6107
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 19:61word 11
“sure to come”
Of a man, sexually approached.
A specialized passive construction associated in the lexical evidence with the Quranic expression of sexual approach; no separate QAC occurrence of this inflected form is supplied for that passage.
- Lane · entry 6107
مُؤْتٍ
muʾtin
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Giving or granting; one who gives.
The supplied Quran form is the masculine plural active participle مُؤْتُونَ; the public headword is normalized to the singular participial citation form.
- Lane · entry 6090
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Selected Quran examples
Quran 4:162word 17
“and the ones who give”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 2:23فَأْتُوا۟then produce
- 2:25وَأُتُوا۟And they will be given
- 2:38يَأْتِيَنَّكُمcomes to you
- 2:43وَءَاتُوا۟and give
- 2:53ءَاتَيْنَاWe gave
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 38 Classical meanings
أَتَى
To claim relationship with a people while not belonging to them.
Used in the construction أَتَى القَوْمَ.
- Lane · entry 6087
أَتَى
To bring forth or beget, especially to bring forth a child.
Occurs in constructions such as أَتَى بِوَلَدٍ and أَتَتْ بِهِ.
- Lane · entry 6087
أَتَى
To become or come to be in a particular state.
A reported usage comparable to “became” or “came to be.”
- Lane · entry 6087
أَتَى عَلَيْهِ
To bring something to an end, consume it, exhaust it, or reach its end.
A specialized use with عَلَى, including consuming what is in a vessel or bringing a matter to completion.
- Lane · entry 6087
أُتِيَ
For a trial, affliction, or adverse circumstance to come upon someone.
Used in passive or impersonal expressions for an affliction entering upon a person.
- Lane · entry 6087
أُتِيَ مِنْ جِهَةِ
To miss an objective by approaching or handling it through an unsuitable route.
A passive construction describing failure caused by taking hold of a matter in an unfit way.
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أُتِيَ الرَّجُلُ
To be deceived or deluded so that what is false appears true.
A specialized passive usage describing altered judgment or perception.
- Lane · entry 6087
أَتَى عَلَيْهِ
For a period of time to pass over someone or something.
Used of time, such as a year passing over a person.
- Lane · entry 6087
أَتْيَةٌ
A single coming or arrival.
A count noun for one occurrence of coming.
- Lane · entry 6094
إِتْيَانٌ
Coming or arrival as a verbal noun or simple substantive.
The form may function either as the infinitive of أتى or as an independent noun meaning a coming.
- Lane · entry 6095
أَتَّى
To smooth, prepare, or channel the course of water so that it flows to a place.
Used of directing a channel or rivulet toward land or another place where water is to remain.
- Lane · entry 6088
أَتَّى
To prepare, arrange, or put an affair into a good and feasible state.
The object is an affair or undertaking rather than a watercourse.
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آتَى (Form III)
To requite, compensate, or recompense someone.
A Form III usage distinct from the ordinary Form IV meaning “give”; the related Quran reading is separately recorded under the Quranic Form IV.
- Lane · entry 6089
آتَى (Form III)
To agree with, comply with, or be of one mind with someone concerning an affair.
The construction آتَيْتُهُ عَلَى الأَمْرِ denotes good-natured agreement or compliance.
- Lane · entry 6089
آتَى (Form III)
To aid or assist.
A reported and qualified lexical attribution for Form III.
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آتَى (Form IV)
To make a gift to a contracted slave or reduce an installment owed under an emancipation contract.
A specialized legal and financial construction involving a mukātib.
- Lane · entry 6090
أُوتِيَ
To be given authority to decide or adjudicate a matter.
A specialized passive expression used of a dispute or interpretive matter brought before someone.
- Lane · entry 6090
تَأَتَّى لَهُ
For an affair or thing to become prepared, feasible, practicable, or easy for someone.
The construction describes circumstances becoming favorably arranged for a person.
- Lane · entry 6091
تَأَتَّى
To handle, undertake, or perform an affair gently and in the manner suitable to it.
May describe applying oneself to a task with gentleness and propriety.
- Lane · entry 6091
تَأَتَّى
To pursue or seek a person or objective gradually, leisurely, or repeatedly.
Includes repeatedly taking aim until hitting a target.
- Lane · entry 6091
تَأَتَّى لِمَعْرُوفِهِ
To direct oneself toward obtaining someone’s favor, bounty, or beneficence.
A conventional expression for addressing oneself to another’s generosity.
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تَأَتَّى
To prepare oneself to rise or stand.
A reported specialized usage.
- Lane · entry 6091
اِسْتَأْتَى
To ask someone to come, considering that person slow or tardy.
The Form X verb expresses requesting arrival because of perceived delay.
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اِسْتَأْتَتِ النَّاقَةُ
For a she-camel to desire the stallion and seek mating.
A specialized animal and sexual usage.
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أَتِيٌّ
Wood, leaves, or similar material that falls into a river and obstructs its flow.
A noun for material carried into or fallen into running water.
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أَتِيٌّ
A sharp, energetic, vigorous, and effective man who applies himself suitably to affairs.
A descriptive adjective for a capable and energetic person.
- Lane · entry 6098
أُتِيَّةُ الجُرْحِ
The matter or discharge that comes from a wound.
A specialized anatomical or medical expression, with several recorded vocalizations.
- Lane · entry 6099
آتٍ
An angel.
A specialized substantive extension of the active participle “coming.”
- Lane · entry 6102
مَأْتًى
A place, road, way of access, or means by which one comes.
The noun can denote either a place of coming or the route or means of access.
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مَأْتَى المَرْأَةِ
The female genital passage or opening, conceived as a place of access.
A specialized anatomical expression.
- Lane · entry 6104
مَأْتَى الأَمْرِ
The proper way, direction, or manner in which an affair is entered into or carried out.
Used for approaching or performing an affair by its appropriate method.
- Lane · entry 6104
مِئْتَاءٌ
A road to which people come often; a frequented and conspicuous road.
The noun may also describe a road that is much visited or plainly visible.
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مِئْتَاءُ الطَّرِيقِ
The main or middle part of a road, or the space and distance comprised by it.
Includes the road’s central portion and, in another description, the measure between its sides.
- Lane · entry 6108
مِئْتَاءٌ
The extreme limit of the distance to which horses run.
A specialized term for a running distance or endpoint.
- Lane · entry 6108
بِمِئْتَاءِ
Opposite, facing, or directly fronting something.
Used in the expression of one house or place being opposite another.
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عَلَى مِئْتَاءٍ وَاحِدٍ
According to one mode, manner, fashion, or form.
Used of people constructing houses or tents in the same manner.
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رَجُلٌ مِئْتَاءٌ
A man who recompenses or gives abundantly.
A specialized personal description combining requital or generous giving.
- Lane · entry 6108
مُسْتَأْتٍ
A mare desiring the stallion.
A specialized animal and sexual usage.
- Lane · entry 6109
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Lane’s historical Quran references are not converted into modern verse locations unless independently confirmed by QAC; examples here use supplied QAC locations.
The Form IV requital sense reflects a reported Quran reading discussed under the Form III entry and is not represented by a separate standard QAC example.
The sexual specialization associated with مَأْتِيٌّ is Quran-referenced in the lexical evidence, but the supplied QAC occurrence of that public form is at 19:61 rather than at the cited sexual passage.
Unassigned or ambiguous evidence
Supplemental cross-reference entries describing a stranger and certain water-related meanings were not treated as direct evidence for this root. The independently stated primary branches—claiming kinship, river debris, and related meanings—are represented from primary units.
The exact morphological relation between the passive مَأْتِيٌّ sexual specialization and the cited Quranic construction is not independently locatable as that QAC form in the supplied packet; it is retained as a qualified secondary sense rather than given a fabricated Quran example.