أتى

Cognate with Aramaic אֲתָא (ʾăṯā, “to come”), Ge'ez አተወ (ʾätäwä, “to go home”), Ugaritic 𐎀𐎚𐎆 (ảtw, “to come”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔa.taː/

أَتَى • (ʔatā) I (non-past يَأْتِي (yaʔtī), verbal noun إِتْيَان (ʔityān) or أَتْي (ʔaty) or مَأْتَاة (maʔtāh) or مَأْتًى (maʔtan))

1. (transitive, intransitive) to come
2. (transitive) to bring
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 18:19:

     […] فَلْيَنْظُرْ أَيُّهَا أَزْكَى طَعَامًا فَلْيَأْتِكُمْ بِرِزْقٍ مِنْهُ وَلْيَتَلَطَّفْ وَلَا يُشْعِرَنَّ بِكُمْ أَحَدًا

     […] falyanẓur ʔayyuhā ʔazkā ṭaʕāman falyaʔtikum birizqin minhu walyatalaṭṭaf walā yušʕiranna bikum ʔaḥadan

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3. to come up with, to bring forth, to create, to invent, to think of
4. (transitive) to do, to commit, to perpetrate

   أَتَى جُرْمًا ― ʔatā jurman ― He has committed a crime.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 65:1:

     يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ إِذَا طَلَّقْتُمُ النِّسَاءَ فَطَلِّقُوهُنَّ لِعِدَّتِهِنَّ وَأَحْصُوا الْعِدَّةَ وَٱتَّقُوا اللّٰهَ رَبَّكُمْ لَا تُخْرِجُوهُنَّ مِن بُيُوتِهِنَّ وَلَا يَخْرُجْنَ إِلَّا أَن يَأْتِينَ بِفٰحِشَةٍ مُّبَيِّنَةٍ

     yā ʔayyuhā n-nabiyyu ʔiḏā ṭallaqtumu n-nisāʔa faṭalliqūhunna liʕiddatihinna waʔaḥṣū l-ʕiddata wattaqū llāha rabbakum lā tuḵrijūhunna min buyūtihinna walā yaḵrujna ʔillā ʔan yaʔtīna bifāḥišatin mubayyinatin

     O Prophet, when you divorce women, divorce them for their waiting period and keep count of the waiting period, and fear God, your Lord. Do not turn them out of their houses, nor should they leave unless they are committing a clear immorality.

   • Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali

     لَا تَنْهَ عَنْ خُلُقٍ وَتَأْتِيَ مِثْلَهُ / عَارٌ عَلَيْكَ إِذَا فَعَلْتَ عَظِيمُ

     lā tanha ʕan ḵuluqin wataʔtiya miṯlahu / ʕārun ʕalayka ʔiḏā faʕalta ʕaẓīmu

     You shall not forbid proper things and do such / great shame upon you if you do things.

5. (euphemistic, transitive) to cohabit, to sleep with
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:222:

     فَإِذَا تَطَهَّرْنَ فَأْتُوهُنَّ مِنْ حَيْثُ أَمَرَكُمُ اللهُ

     faʔiḏā taṭahharna faʔtūhunna min ḥayṯu ʔamarakumu llāhu

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6. to destroy

   أَتَتِ النَّارُ عَلَى الْمَنْزِل

   ʔatati an-nāru ʕalā l-manzil

   The fire has destroyed the house.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:أفنى

7. to come upon
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 51:42:

     مَا تَذَرُ مِن شَيْءٍ أَتَتْ عَلَيْهِ إِلَّا جَعَلَتْهُ كَالرَّمِيمِ

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• Lane, Edward William (1863) “أتى”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 15–16
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “أتى”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 8
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ءتي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 3–4