Quranic root
هيأ
h · y · ʾ
The lexical evidence centers on هَيْئَةٌ, the form or state in which something is found, and on putting something into a suitable or ready condition.
The preparation and facilitation senses develop from furnishing or arranging something into a fitting state. The intransitive Form V denotes becoming prepared, feasible, or attainable. A separate etymological note treats هَيَا as a vocative form equivalent to يَا, rather than establishing an independent root-wide semantic principle.
- Mufradāt · row 1540
- Lane · entry 10765
- Lane · entry 10766
- Maqāyīs · row 4974
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- Quran-attested forms
- 2
- Quran senses
- 4
- Quran occurrences
Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
هَيَّأَ
hayyaʾa
- Part of speech
- Verb · Form II
- Form
- II
- Quran occurrences
- 2 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 prepare, provide, arrange, or put into a suitable state; hence, to make an affair feasible or facilitate it.
In the supplied Quranic uses, the verb concerns preparing or making available what is sought, including guidance or facility in an affair.
- Lane · entry 10765
- Mufradāt · row 1540
Selected Quran examples
Quran 18:10word 12
“and facilitate”
Quran 18:16word 15
“and will facilitate”
هَيْئَةٌ
hayʾahun
- Part of speech
- Noun
- Quran occurrences
- 2 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.
Form, shape, or outward configuration.
In the supplied Quranic constructions, especially كَهَيْئَةِ الطَّيْرِ, the noun denotes likeness in form or shape.
- Lane · entry 10770
- Mufradāt · row 1540
Selected Quran examples
Quran 3:49word 16
“like the form”
Quran 5:110word 31
“like the shape”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 3:49كَهَيْـَٔةِlike the form
- 5:110كَهَيْـَٔةِlike the shape
- 18:10وَهَيِّئْand facilitate
- 18:16وَيُهَيِّئْand will facilitate
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 16 Classical meanings
هَاءَ
To be or become of good or goodly form, appearance, or qualities.
هَيُؤَ is reported as synonymous; one analysis gives the latter an intensive or wonder-like force, such as “how excellent is he in form or appearance.”
- Lane · entry 10764
هَاءَ
To desire, long for, or long to see someone or something.
Used with إِلَيْهِ for the object desired or longed for.
- Lane · entry 10764
هَيَّأَ
To invest someone with a form, guise, garb, or external state.
This is the form-giving or clothing specialization of the transitive Form II verb, distinct from its Quranic preparation and facilitation use.
- Lane · entry 10765
تَهَيَّأَ
To be or become prepared, ready, disposed, or arranged; of an affair or thing, to become feasible, practicable, attainable, or within reach.
With لِ, it can mean to prepare oneself for something or to be ready or about to perform an action. A reported Quranic reading uses the verb for preparing oneself for another person.
- Lane · entry 10766
تَهَايَأُوا
To agree together upon a matter or course of action.
Used of persons reaching agreement concerning what is to be done.
- Lane · entry 10767
هَىْءٌ
A call summoning to food or drink.
A camel-specific usage is also reported, meaning a call to camels to feed or drink; the evidence varies between feeding and drinking.
- Lane · entry 10768
يَا هَىْءَ
An expression of regret for something that has passed away or escaped.
Occurs in the exclamatory expression يَا هَىْءَ مَا لِي.
- Lane · entry 10769
يَا هَىْءَ
An expression of wonder or astonishment.
Reported as an alternative interpretation of the same exclamatory expression.
- Lane · entry 10769
هَىْءٌ
An imperative verbal noun meaning “pay attention,” “take heed,” or “attend.”
It may be preceded by يَا, with the final vowel used for ease of pronunciation.
- Lane · entry 10769
هَيْئَةٌ
A guise, garb, external state, condition, quality, or manner of being.
The broader Classical range includes state with respect to apparel and the idiomatic description of people distinguished by good qualities and a consistent way or manner.
- Lane · entry 10770
هَيْئَةٌ عَارِضَةٌ
In logic, an accidental mode or contingent attribute.
A technical logical usage.
- Lane · entry 10770
هَيِّئٌ
A person of good or goodly form, appearance, or qualities associated with هَيْئَةٌ.
An adjective describing the person’s form or other properties.
- Lane · entry 10773
مُهَيَّأٌ
Prepared or made ready.
A passive participial adjective derived from هَيَّأَ.
- Lane · entry 10774
مَهَايَأَةٌ
A matter or arrangement that people agree together to undertake.
The arrangement may be one reached by mutual estimation or agreement.
- Lane · entry 10775
- Mufradāt · row 1540
مَتَهَيِّئَةٌ
A female camel that seldom fails to become pregnant after being covered.
A specialized descriptive use concerning reproductive reliability.
- Lane · entry 10776
هَيَّاكَ
An expression of warning or avoidance, equivalent to “beware” or “avoid.”
Reported in the construction هَيَّاكَ أَنْ تَفْعَلَ كَذَا, meaning “beware of doing such-and-such.”
- Mufradāt · row 1540
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
A reported Quranic reading of هِئْتُ لَكَ is preserved under the broader Form V classical entry because no matching QAC form group or supplied QAC word location for that reading is present.
The reported هَيَّاكَ warning expression is included as a Classical usage because it is presented tentatively in the supplied lexical evidence.