قاء

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See also: فاء

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ق ي ء (q-y-ʔ). Regarding the initial uvular and final glottal, looks onomatopoeic for retching, but then parallelly in many languages of the Afro-Asiatic type, if not inherited from Proto-Afroasiatic, encountered in Ge'ez ቄአ (ḳeʾä), present ይቂእ (yəḳiʾ, to vomit), Tigre ቀኣ (ḳäʾa, to vomit), Hebrew קָא (qāʾ), present יָקִיא (yāqīʾ, to vomit), and similarly in Egyptian qꜣꜥ, qjs (to vomit), qꜣ, qꜣꜣ (to be putrid; to vomit).

Pronunciation

Verb

قَاءَ (qāʔa) I, non-past يَقِيءُ‎ (yaqīʔu)

  1. to vomit
    • 7th century CE, Sunan an-Nasāʾiyy, 32:4:
      قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ ‏ «الْعَائِدُ فِي هِبَتِهِ كَالْكَلْبِ يَقِيءُ ثُمَّ يَعُودُ فِي قَيْئِهِ».‏
      qāla rasūlu l-lahi ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wasallama “ʔal-ʕāʔidu fī hibati-hī ka-l-kalbi yaqīʔu ṯumma yaʕūdu fī qayʔi-hī”.
      “The Messenger of Allah said: ‘The one who takes back his gift is like the dog which vomits then goes back to its vomit.’”

Conjugation