مأتى

Arabic

Etymology

Noun of place and verbal noun from the verb أَتَى (ʾatā, to come), from the root ء ت ي (ʾ-t-y).

Noun

مَأْتًى (maʾtan) m (dual مَأْتَيَانِ (maʾtayāni), plural مَآتٍ (maʾātin))

  1. verbal noun of أَتَى (ʾatā) (form I)
  2. place from which something comes
  3. place at which one arrives
  4. access
  5. place of origin
  6. origin, source, provenance
  7. place where one has been or to which one has come
  8. place where something starts or ends
Declension

References

  • Wehr, Hans (1979), اتى”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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