Arabic root

ا-ي-ي

Alif-Ya-Ya

1 word from this root family

About this root

Alif-Ya-Ya (ا-ي-ي) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: āyah (sign / verse / miracle).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 597 times in 562 verses, across 78 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:21. The form آيَةٌ (sign / verse / miracle) accounts for 382 of them.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
آيَةٌ āyah	sign / verse / miracle	noun, A1	382×	The Most Frequent Words (Part 3)

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ ٱعْبُدُوا۟ رَبَّكُمُ ٱلَّذِى خَلَقَكُمْ وَٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ

O mankind! worship your Lord, Who hath created you and those before you, so that ye may ward off (evil).

Quran 2:21

وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ وَكَذَّبُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِنَآ أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ أَصْحَـٰبُ ٱلنَّارِ ۖ هُمْ فِيهَا خَـٰلِدُونَ

But they who disbelieve, and deny Our revelations, such are rightful Peoples of the Fire. They will abide therein.

Quran 2:39

وَءَامِنُوا۟ بِمَآ أَنزَلْتُ مُصَدِّقًا لِّمَا مَعَكُمْ وَلَا تَكُونُوٓا۟ أَوَّلَ كَافِرٍۭ بِهِۦ ۖ وَلَا تَشْتَرُوا۟ بِـَٔايَـٰتِى ثَمَنًا قَلِيلًا وَإِيَّـٰىَ فَٱتَّقُونِ

And believe in that which I reveal, confirming that which ye possess already (of the Scripture), and be not first to disbelieve therein, and part not with My revelations for a trifling price, and keep your duty unto Me.

Quran 2:41

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).

Word cards with examples

A1noun

آيَةٌ

āyah

sign / verse / miracle

Example

إِنَّ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ لَآيَاتٍ لِأُولِي الْأَلْبَابِ

inna fī khalqi as-samāwāti wal-arḍi la-āyātin li-ulī al-albāb

Indeed, in the creation of the heavens and the earth are signs for those of understanding (3:190)

Root: أ-ي-ي Quranic

Grammar

Feminine noun. Plural: آيَاتٌ (āyāt). Has three meanings in the Quran: a verse of the Quran, a sign/evidence of God, and a miracle.

Culture

Each verse of the Quran is called an āyah (sign), suggesting that every verse is a sign pointing to divine truth. The natural world is also full of āyāt.