Classical Arabic - English Dictionary

آمَتْ, (Ṣ,* M, Ḳ, [in the CK, erroneously, آمَتْ,]) second pers. أَمَوْتِ; (Ṣ;) and أَمِيَتْ, (M, Ḳ,) like سَمِعَتْ; (Ḳ;) and أَمُوَتْ, (Lḥ, M, Ḳ,) like كَرُمَتٌ; (Ḳ;) inf. n. أُمُوَّةٌ; (Ṣ, M, Ḳ;) She (a woman) became a slave; (Ṣ,* M, Ḳ;) as alsoتَأَمَّتْ↓. (Mṣb.)

أَمَتِ السِّنَّوْرُ, aor. تَأْمُو, inf. n. أُمَآءٌ, The cat [mewed, or] uttered a cry; (Ṣ, Ḳ;) like مَآءَ تْ, aor. تَمُوْءُ, inf. n. مُوَآءٌ. (Ṣ.)

أَمَّاهَا, (M, Ḳ,) inf. n. تَأْمِيَةٌ, (Ḳ,) He made her a slave. (M, Ḳ.)

تَأَمَّتْ: see 1.

تأمّى أَمَةً He took for himself a female slave; (Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ;) as alsoاِسْتَأْمَاهَا↓. (Ṣ, Ḳ.)

هُوَ يَأْتَمِى بِهِ He follows his (another person's) example; imitates him; i. q. يَأْتَمُّ بِهِ (TA in the present art.) And ائتمى بِالشَّىْءِ [written with the disjunctive alif اِيتَمَى] is used for ائتَمَّ بِهِ [He made the thing to be a rule of life or conduct], by substitution [of ى for م], (M and Ḳ in art. ام,) the doubling [of the م] being disapproved. (M in that art.)

أَمَةٌ, originally اموة, (Mṣb,) [but whether أَمَوَةٌ or أَمْوَةٌ is disputed, as will be seen in what follows,] A female slave; (M, Ḳ;) a woman whose condition is that of slavery; (T;) contr. of حُرَّةٌ: (Ṣ:) [in relation to God, best rendered a handmaid:] dual أَمَتَانِ: (Mṣb:) pl. آمٍ, (Lth, T, Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ, &c.,) like قِاضٍ, (Mṣb,) a pl. of pauc. [respecting which see what follows after the other pls.], (Lth, T,) and إِمَآءٌ [the most common form] (T, Ṣ, M, Mgh, Mṣb, Ḳ) and إِمْوَانٌ (T, Ṣ, M, Mṣb, Ḳ) and أُمْوَانٌ (Ḳ, and so in some copies of the M) and أَمْوَانٌ (Ḳ, and so in some copies of the M) [the last, or last but one, accord. to different copies of the M, on the authority of Lḥ,] and أَمَوَاتٌ, (M, Mṣb, Ḳ,) for which one may say أَمَاتٌ. (Ibn-Keysán, TA.) Accord. to Sb (M) and Mbr (TA) it is originally أَمَوَةٌ, (Ṣ, M, Ḳ,) because it has for a pl. آمٍ, (Ṣ, M,) which is [originally أَأْمُوٌ,] of the measure أَفْعُلٌ, (Lth, T, Ṣ,) like آكُمٌ, pl. of أَكَمَةٌ, (Sb, M,) and like أَيْنُقٌ, [pl. of نَاقةٌ, which is originally نَوَقةٌ,] for a sing. of the measure فَعْلَةٌ has not a pl. of this form; (Ṣ;) and Mbr says that there is no noun of two letters but a letter has been dropped from it, which it indicates by its pl. or dual, or by a verb if it is derived therefrom: (TA:) or it is originally فَعْلَةٌ: (AHeyth, T, Ḳ:) AHeyth says that they suppressed its final radical letter, and, forming a pl. from it after the manner of نَخْلَةٌ and نَخْلٌ, instead of saying أَمٌ, which they disliked as being of only two letters, they transposed the suppressed و, changing it into ا, and placing it between the ا and م. (T: [in which this opinion, though it does not account for the termination of the pl. آمٍ, is said to be preferable.]) One says, جَآءَ تْنِىً أَمَةُ ٱللّٰهِ [The handmaid of God came to me]: and in the dual, جَآءَ تْنِى أمَتَا ٱللّٰهِ: and in the pl., جَآءَ نِى إِمَآءُ ٱللّٰهِ and إِمْوَانُ ٱللّٰهِ and أَمَوَاتُ ٱللّٰهِ; and one may also say, أَمَاتُ ٱللّٰه. (Ibn-Keysán, TA.) [ISd says,] وَمَاهُ ٱللّٰهُ مِنْ كُلِّ أَمَةٍ بحَجَرٍ is mentioned by IAạr as said in imprecating evil on a man; but I think it is من كلّ أَمْتِ [May God cast a stone at him from every elevated place, or the like]. (M.)

أَمَوِىُّ Of, or relating or belonging to, a female slave. (Ṣ.)

أُمَيَّةٌ dim. of أَمَةٌ; (Ṣ, Mṣb;) originally أُمَيْوَةٌ. (Mṣb.)