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'.
Mim-Sin-Ya
2 words from this root family
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.
| Word | Meaning | Type | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|
مَسَاءُ الْخَيْرِ masāʾu al-khayri | good evening | phrase, A1 | More Greetings & Courtesies |
مَسَاء masāʾ | evening | noun, A1 | Telling Time |
فَسُبْحَـٰنَ ٱللَّهِ حِينَ تُمْسُونَ وَحِينَ تُصْبِحُونَSo glory be to Allah when ye enter the night and when ye enter the morning -
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).
The response is 'masāʾu an-nūr' (مَسَاءُ النُّورِ) meaning 'evening of light'.