Cognate withAramaicאֲתָא(ʾăṯā,“to come”),Ge'ezአተወ(ʾätäwä,“to go home”),Ugaritic𐎀𐎚𐎆(ảtw,“to come”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔa.taː/

أَتَى• (ʔatā)I (non-pastيَأْتِي(yaʔtī),verbal nounإِتْيَان(ʔityān)orأَتْي(ʔaty)orمَأْتَاة(maʔtāh)orمَأْتًى(maʔtan))

1. (ambitransitive) tocome
2. (transitive) tobring [withبِ(bi)‘what’]
   • 609–632CE,Qur'an,18:19:

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

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

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3. tocome up with, tobring forth, tocreate, toinvent, tothink of
4. (transitive) todo, tocommit, toperpetrate

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

   • 609–632CE,Qur'an,65:1:

     يَا أَيُّهَا النَّبِيُّ إِذَا طَلَّقْتُمُ النِّسَاءَ فَطَلِّقُوهُنَّ لِعِدَّتِهِنَّ وَأَحْصُوا الْعِدَّةَ وَٱتَّقُوا اللّٰهَ رَبَّكُمْ لَا تُخْرِجُوهُنَّ مِن بُيُوتِهِنَّ وَلَا يَخْرُجْنَ إِلَّا أَنيَأْتِينَ 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 ʔanyaʔtīna bifāḥišatin mubayyinatin

     O Prophet, when you [Muslims] divorce women, divorce them for [the commencement of] their waiting period and keep count of the waiting period, and fear God, your Lord. Do not turn them out of their [husbands'] houses, nor should they [themselves] leave [during that period] unless they arecommitting 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) tocohabit, tosleep with
   • 609–632CE,Qur'an,2:222:

     فَإِذَا تَطَهَّرْنَفَأْتُوهُنَّ مِنْ حَيْثُ أَمَرَكُمُ اللهُ

     faʔiḏā taṭahharnafaʔtūhunna min ḥayṯu ʔamarakumu llāhu

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6. todestroy[withعَلَى(ʕalā)‘what’]

   أَتَتِ النَّارُ عَلَى الْمَنْزِل

   ʔatati an-nāru ʕalā l-manzil

   The firehas destroyed the house.

   Synonyms:seeThesaurus:أفنى

7. tocome upon[withعَلَى(ʕalā)‘what’]
   • 609–632CE,Qur'an,51:42:

     مَا تَذَرُ مِن شَيْءٍأَتَتْ عَلَيْهِ إِلَّا جَعَلَتْهُ كَٱلرَّمِيمِ

     mā taḏaru min šayʔinʔatat ʕalayhi ʔillā jaʕalathu kar-ramīmi

     There was nothingit came upon that it did not reduce to ashes..

• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893), “أتى”, inArabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate,pages15–16.
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “أتى”, inThe Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], 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, pages3–4

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