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Arabic root

م-س-ي

Mim-Sin-Ya

2 words from this root family

About this root

Mim-Sin-Ya (م-س-ي) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: masāʾu al-khayri (good evening), masāʾ (evening).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 1 time in 1 verse, across 1 of the 114 suras. The first is in 30:17.

Themes: Greetings, Basics, Time

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
مَسَاءُ الْخَيْرِ
masāʾu al-khayri
good eveningphrase, A1More Greetings & Courtesies
مَسَاء
masāʾ
eveningnoun, A1Telling Time

In the Quran

فَسُبْحَـٰنَ ٱللَّهِ حِينَ تُمْسُونَ وَحِينَ تُصْبِحُونَ

So glory be to Allah when ye enter the night and when ye enter the morning -

Quran 30:17

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

A1phrase
مَسَاءُ الْخَيْرِ
masāʾu al-khayri

good evening

Example
مَسَاءُ الْخَيْرِ يَا أُسْتَاذُ.
masāʾu al-khayri yā ustādhu.
Good evening, professor.
Grammar

The response is 'masāʾu an-nūr' (مَسَاءُ النُّورِ) meaning 'evening of light'.

A1noun
مَسَاء
masāʾ

evening

Example
مَسَاءُ النُّورِ
masāʾu an-nūri
Good evening (response)

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