رأى

See also: رأي, زاي, and رأی

Arabic

Alternative forms

  • (archaic) رءا

Etymology

From root ر ء ي (r-ʾ-y)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ra.ʔaː/
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Verb

رَأَى (raʾā) I, non-past يَرَى‎ (yarā)

  1. (transitive) to see (to perceive with the eyes)
    لَا أَرَى شَيْئًا.
    lā ʾarā šayʾan.
    I can't see anything.
  2. (idiomatic) to review in one's mind, to consider it, to reflect on it, to contemplate, to review something to see its deeper significance, to look back over, to speculate upon
  3. to see again in one's mind, to play back a memory, to look back on

Conjugation

Verb

رَأَى (raʾā) I, non-past يَرَى‎ (yarā)

  1. to deem true, to opine or hold the opinion of, to have that outlook on something, to see or view it that way, to be of that thinking or to have such thoughts
  2. to plant a flag or banner in the ground, to place down one's ensign or mark
  3. (transitive, obsolete) to hit someone's lung, to complain of pain in one's lungs

Conjugation

Verb

رَأَى (raʾā) I, non-past يَرَى‎ (yarā)

  1. (transitive) to dream, to have a dream
  2. to imagine, to fancy, to conceive a thought or to conceptualize, to see (to perceive in one's dream)
  3. to envision, to foresee, to suppose, to anticipate a future outcome, to speculate or reckon it will be, to have a premonition or forewarning

Conjugation

Descendants

  • Maltese: ra

References

  • Lane, Arabic-English Lexicon (1863), pp. 998-1002.
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), رءي”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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