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Quranic root

رمي

r · m · y

The root centers on casting or throwing something away from the thrower.

From physical casting it extends to shooting, reciprocal throwing, casting an imputation on someone, exceeding a limit, and directing or reaching a destination. These extensions retain the orientation of something being projected toward or beyond a point.

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Quran senses
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Forms in the Quran

The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.

رَمَى

ramā

Part of speech
Verb · Form I
Form
I
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.

  1. To throw, cast, or launch an object or projectile.

    Covers literal casting and the throwing of stones or other projectiles, including casting toward or against a target. In 8:17, the wording also receives interpretations concerning the effective agency and result of the casting.

    • Lane · entry 24569
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    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 8:17word 7

    you threw

    Quran 8:17word 12

    threw

    Quran 77:32word 2

    throws up

    Quran 105:4word 1

    Striking them

  2. To cast an accusation, reproach, or other imputation upon someone; to accuse.

    Used with an imputed matter and a person as its recipient, and also used alone where the accusation is understood. The Quranic uses include imputing blame to an innocent person and accusing people of sexual misconduct.

    • Lane · entry 24569
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    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 4:112word 7

    throws

    Quran 24:4word 2

    accuse

    Quran 24:6word 2

    accuse

    Quran 24:23word 3

    accuse

  3. To aid or defend someone against an enemy by directing the attack against that enemy.

    An explicitly reported interpretation of the casting in Quran 8:17, alongside interpretations retaining the literal or effective-casting sense; it is not a general replacement for the ordinary physical meaning of the verb.

    • Lane · entry 24569
    Selected Quran examples

    Quran 8:17word 12

    threw

Occurrences in the Quran

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

  • 4:112يَرْمِthrows
  • 8:17رَمَيْتَyou threw
  • 8:17رَمَيْتَyou threw
  • 8:17رَمَىٰ ۚthrew
  • 24:4يَرْمُونَaccuse
View all 9 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 49 Classical meanings
  • رَمَى بِسَلْحِهِ

    To cast forth excrement or ordure.

    A conventional expression for bodily evacuation, especially of excrement in a thin state.

    • Lane · entry 24569
  • رَمَى

    To shoot an arrow with a bow; to shoot at game or a target, or to pelt someone with missiles.

    The prepositions and objects distinguish shooting with or from a bow, shooting game, and throwing missiles at a person or target.

    • Lane · entry 24569
  • رَمَى

    To smite, afflict, or assail someone with a calamity, bane, reproach, or hostile charge.

    Includes curse-like expressions and figurative attacks by means of an argument, reproach, or calamity; the Quranic accusation branch is represented separately above.

    • Lane · entry 24569
  • رُمِيتُ بِكَذَا

    To have something offered or presented to one, as though it were thrown into one's path.

    A passive idiom describing an unexpected or arranged encounter with something offered.

    • Lane · entry 24569
  • رَمَانِي القَوْمُ بِأَبْصَارِهِمْ

    To cast one's eyes at someone; to look at someone sideways, harshly, angrily, or intently.

    An idiomatic use in which the eyes are metaphorically cast toward the person observed.

    • Lane · entry 24569
  • رَمَى بِالقَوْمِ

    To cast people forth, expel them, or cause them to go from one country or place to another.

    A causative or figurative use of casting applied to people and their removal from a place.

    • Lane · entry 24569
  • رَمَى

    To journey, go forth, or direct one's course toward a place.

    An intransitive or directional extension of casting, used of a person or a person's journey into or toward a region.

    • Lane · entry 24569
  • رَمَوْهَا بِأَثْوَابٍ

    To mount animals by casting one's body upon them.

    An idiom applied to riders mounting camels or similar animals.

    • Lane · entry 24569
  • رُمِيَ فِي جِنَازَتِهِ

    To be carried and placed upon one's bier; to die.

    A conventional passive expression reporting a person's death.

    • Lane · entry 24569
  • رَمَى

    To impose an impost or levy upon subjects.

    A rare, figurative use attributed in the lexical evidence to the act of imposing a charge.

    • Lane · entry 24569
  • رَمَى

    To conjecture wrongly, misconjecture, or speak on the basis of an unsupported guess.

    Associated with conjecturing about the unseen or forming a wrong opinion.

    • Lane · entry 24569
  • رَامَى

    To shoot or throw with another in competition; to compete in shooting or throwing.

    Form III commonly describes reciprocal or competitive shooting, especially with arrows or stones.

    • Lane · entry 24570
  • أَرْمَى

    To exceed or go beyond something; to surpass an amount or age.

    Used with a measure, number, or age, including exceeding fifty or another stated limit.

    • Lane · entry 24571
  • أَرْمَى

    To practice usury or make an increase of the type expressed by أَرْبَى.

    A distinct lexical equivalence reported alongside the meaning ‘to exceed’; it is not a general meaning of the Form I verb.

    • Lane · entry 24571
  • تَرَمَّى

    To shoot or cast at butts and the trunks of trees.

    Describes practicing or engaging in target shooting.

    • Lane · entry 24572
  • تَرَامَى

    To throw or shoot reciprocally, especially in competition or contention.

    Used of people throwing or shooting at one another or competing together with arrows.

    • Lane · entry 24573
  • تَرَامَى بِهِ

    To be cast from one place or country to another; to be expelled.

    A reciprocal or successive-casting image applied to a person being driven from place to place.

    • Lane · entry 24573
  • تَرَامَى السَّحَابُ

    For clouds to draw together, join, and heap up.

    A figurative Form VI construction describing clouds as though cast together.

    • Lane · entry 24573
  • تَرَامَى الأَمْرُ

    For an affair to come eventually to an outcome or lead to a result.

    Used with إلى and a resulting state, whether attainment of the desired end or abandonment.

    • Lane · entry 24573
  • تَرَامَى إِلَى فَسَادٍ

    For a wound or swelling to remain sluggish and become putrid or corrupt.

    A specialized figurative development describing a condition that lingers and progresses toward corruption.

    • Lane · entry 24573
  • تَرَامَى إِلَيْهِ الخَبَرُ

    For news or information to reach someone gradually or by stages.

    A construction of gradual arrival rather than physical throwing.

    • Lane · entry 24573
  • تَرَامَتْ سَفْرَتُهُ

    For a journey to become distant or far-extending.

    Used of the increasing remoteness or extent of a journey.

    • Lane · entry 24573
  • تَرَامَاهُ الشَّبَابُ

    For youthfulness or youthful vigor to reach its full term in someone.

    A figurative attainment expression used of the completion of youthful vigor.

    • Lane · entry 24573
  • اِرْتَمَى

    To be or become thrown or flung; to fall to the ground.

    The Form VIII verb may describe an object falling or a load falling from an animal's back.

    • Lane · entry 24574
  • اِرْتَمَى

    To shoot at an animal or animals of the chase.

    A Form VIII hunting use, distinct from the passive or falling sense.

    • Lane · entry 24574
  • رِمًى

    The sound made by a stone when thrown.

    The transmitted example differs as to whether the stone is thrown at a boy or by a boy; the lexical meaning is the sound of the thrown stone.

    • Lane · entry 24576
  • رَمْيَة

    A single throw, cast, or shot.

    Also used in the proverb for an unexpectedly successful shot.

    • Lane · entry 24577
  • رَمَاء

    An excess or addition, especially an increase beyond what is lawful; usury.

    A noun for an added amount or unlawful excess in exchange or transaction.

    • Lane · entry 24578
  • رَمِيّ

    An animal of the chase that is shot at or shot, especially a male animal of the goat, ibex, or gazelle kind.

    Used adjectivally and, in related usage, substantivally; the evidence also allows application to a female animal, so gender is not imposed as an absolute restriction.

    • Lane · entry 24580
  • رَمِيّ

    A rain cloud whose drops are large and fall vehemently; by another explanation, a small portion of cloud.

    The large-rain-drop explanation is identified as the approved one in the cited lexical discussion, with a dialectal alternative also reported.

    • Lane · entry 24580
  • رَمِيَّة

    An animal of the chase that is or is to be thrown at, shot at, or shot.

    A substantive applied to male or female game; the evidence discusses both a prospective and an already-targeted interpretation.

    • Lane · entry 24581
  • رَمِيَّة

    An impost imposed by a governor upon subjects.

    A rare figurative nominal use, distinct from the game-animal sense.

    • Lane · entry 24581
  • رِمِّيَّا

    Reciprocal or vehement throwing, shooting, or stone-casting between parties.

    An intensive or quasi-verbal noun for an exchange of missiles, often followed by an intervention that separates the parties.

    • Lane · entry 24582
  • رَامٍ

    One who throws or shoots; throwing or shooting.

    Active participle of Form I, with a plural رُمَاةٌ.

    • Lane · entry 24583
  • الرَّامِي

    The constellation Sagittarius, the archer.

    A conventional proper-name extension of the active-participle sense.

    • Lane · entry 24583
  • رَامٍ

    One who reproaches, stigmatizes, accuses, or suspects another.

    A figurative active-participle use derived from casting a reproach or imputation.

    • Lane · entry 24583
  • أَرْمَى

    More or most skilled in throwing, casting, or shooting.

    A comparative or elative adjective, not the Form IV verb.

    • Lane · entry 24584
  • مَرْمًى

    A place for throwing or shooting, especially the location of an archery butt.

    A noun of place, with plural مَرَامٍ.

    • Lane · entry 24586
  • مَرْمًى

    An object or destination toward which one directs one's aim, course, or hopes.

    A figurative extension of the place of shooting to a goal or object of aspiration.

    • Lane · entry 24586
  • مِرْمًى

    An instrument for throwing, casting, or shooting.

    Includes devices used to cast missiles, including engines for throwing fire at an enemy.

    • Lane · entry 24587
  • مَرْمَاة

    The limit or reach of a shot or throw.

    A noun of measure for the distance attainable by a missile.

    • Lane · entry 24588
  • مِرْمَاة

    An arrow used for shooting at a butt or for learning to shoot.

    The term may denote a small or weak arrow and is extended in the evidence to related arrowhead types.

    • Lane · entry 24589
  • مِرْمَاة

    A catapult or other engine for casting missiles.

    A tropical extension from an arrow or missile to an instrument that casts one.

    • Lane · entry 24589
  • مِرْمَاة

    Thunderbolts, in a reported plural usage of the term.

    This interpretation is preserved as a lexical report associated in the source with an exegetical Quran citation; no modern verse location is inferred from that citation.

    • Lane · entry 24589
  • مِرْمَاة

    A cloven hoof, or the part between the two hoofs of a sheep or goat.

    The expression in the cited tradition is disputed between this hoof sense and the arrow sense.

    • Lane · entry 24589
  • مَرْمِيّ

    Thrown, cast at, or shot at.

    Passive participle of Form I, retaining the ordinary physical result of casting.

    • Lane · entry 24590
  • مَرْمِيّ

    Smitten or afflicted with a bane; figuratively, reproached, stigmatized, accused, or suspected.

    A figurative passive-participial extension in which a person is treated as the recipient of a harmful charge or imputation.

    • Lane · entry 24590
  • مُرْتَمٍ

    A scout sent out for a people or party.

    A specialized Form VIII-derived noun for a person sent out to observe or reconnoiter.

    • Lane · entry 24591
  • رَمُوَ

    To be excellent in throwing or shooting.

    A stative verb expressing excellence or commendation specifically in one's throwing or shooting.

    • Lane · entry 24569

Cautions

Points that affect how this root should be read.

  • The interpretation of Quran 8:17 is multifaceted: the physical casting sense and an explicitly reported aid-or-defense interpretation are both preserved rather than collapsed.

  • The Lane citation associated with the reported thunderbolt usage of مِرْمَاة is retained descriptively and is not converted into a modern verse location.

  • All 57 enumerated primary Lane source units are included in the coverage ledger.