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Quranic root

مءي

m · ʾ · y

The evidence preserves a numerical branch centered on one hundred, alongside separate lexical branches for fomenting discord and a cat's mewing.

The numerical branch includes a transitive use meaning to make a quantity total one hundred and a corresponding intransitive use meaning to become a hundred; the Quranic مِائَة is the numeral itself. The evidence also records مَأَى for a cat's mewing and مَأْي for tale-bearing or causing discord between people.

  • Maqāyīs · row 4275
  • Mufradāt · row 1340
  • Lane · entry 5599
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Quran-attested forms
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Quran senses
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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.

مِائَة

miāʾah

Part of speech
Noun
Quran occurrences
10 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.

  1. The number one hundred; a hundred units.

    A cardinal numeral. The supplied Quranic occurrences include the singular مِائَة and the dual مِائَتَيْنِ, meaning one hundred and two hundred respectively.

    • Mufradāt · row 1340
    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 8:65word 13

    “two hundred”

    Quran 2:259word 19

    “(for) a hundred”

مَأَى

maʾā

Part of speech
Verb · Form I
Form
I
Quran occurrences
0 occurrences

Occurrences in the Quran

Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.

  • 2:259مِا۟ئَةَ(for) a hundred
  • 2:259مِا۟ئَةَone hundred
  • 2:261مِّا۟ئَةُhundred
  • 8:65مِا۟ئَتَيْنِ ۚtwo hundred
  • 8:65مِّا۟ئَةٌۭa hundred
View all 10 occurrences

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 3 Classical meanings

  • أَمْأَى

    To make a quantity total one hundred; to cause it to become a hundred.

    The evidence also records the corresponding intransitive result expression, in which the quantity becomes a hundred.

    • Maqāyīs · row 4275
    • Mufradāt · row 1340

  • المَأْي

    Tale-bearing and causing discord between people; to foment mischief between them.

    The related verbal expression مَأَيْتُ بينهم means that one caused discord among them.

    • Maqāyīs · row 4275

  • مَأَى

    To mew, of a cat.

    A Form I verb describing the cat's cry.

    • Lane · entry 5599

Cautions

Points that affect how this root should be read.

  • The Quranic form group combines singular and dual inflectional forms; the public headword is the singular citation form مِائَة.