Alif-Ta-Ya
2 words from this root family
Alif-Ta-Ya (ا-ت-ي) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: atā (he came / he brought), yaʾtī (he comes).
In the Quran, words built on this root occur 549 times in 486 verses, across 72 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:23. The form أَتَى (he came / he brought) accounts for 264 of them.
| Word | Meaning | Type | In the Quran | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
أَتَى atā | he came / he brought | verb, A1 | 264× | The Most Frequent Words (Part 4) |
يَأْتِي yaʾtī | he comes | verb, A1 | Essential Verbs |
“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.
وَإِن كُنتُمْ فِى رَيْبٍ مِّمَّا نَزَّلْنَا عَلَىٰ عَبْدِنَا فَأْتُوا۟ بِسُورَةٍ مِّن مِّثْلِهِۦ وَٱدْعُوا۟ شُهَدَآءَكُم مِّن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ إِن كُنتُمْ صَـٰدِقِينَAnd if ye are in doubt concerning that which We reveal unto Our slave (Muhammad), then produce a surah of the like thereof, and call your witness beside Allah if ye are truthful.
وَأَقِيمُوا۟ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَءَاتُوا۟ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ وَٱرْكَعُوا۟ مَعَ ٱلرَّٰكِعِينَEstablish worship, pay the poor-due, and bow your heads with those who bow (in worship).
لَّـٰكِنِ ٱلرَّٰسِخُونَ فِى ٱلْعِلْمِ مِنْهُمْ وَٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ يُؤْمِنُونَ بِمَآ أُنزِلَ إِلَيْكَ وَمَآ أُنزِلَ مِن قَبْلِكَ ۚ وَٱلْمُقِيمِينَ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ ۚ وَٱلْمُؤْتُونَ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ وَٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ بِٱللَّهِ وَٱلْيَوْمِ ٱلْـَٔاخِرِ أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ سَنُؤْتِيهِمْ أَجْرًا عَظِيمًاBut those of them who are firm in knowledge and the believers believe in that which is revealed unto thee, and that which was revealed before thee, especially the diligent in prayer and those who pay the poor-due, the believers in Allah and the Last Day. Upon these We shall bestow immense reward.
Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).
Defective verb (nāqiṣ) with yāʾ. Past: أَتَى, Present: يَأْتِي. Synonym of جَاءَ (came) but slightly different in usage.
The past tense here is used to express certainty about a future event, a rhetorical device in Arabic indicating inevitability.