متى

Arabic

Compare مَا (mā, “what?”) and مَن (man, “who?”). Cognate to Hebrew מתי (matai).

مَتَى • (matā)

when (at what time?)
whenever
- a. 965, Al-Mutanabbi, “أَجابَ دَمعي وَما الداعي سِوى طَلَلِ” (chapter 182), in The Works of 'Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Mutanabbī, volume 3, Dār Al-Ma‘rifah, published 1978, page 75:
  مَتَى تَزُرْ قْوْمَ مَنْ تَهْوَى زِيَارَتَهَا / لَا يُتْحِفُوكَ بِغَيْرِ الْبِيضِ وَٱلْأَسَلِ
  matā tazur qwma man tahwā ziyāratahā / lā yutḥifūka biḡayri l-bīḍi wal-ʔasali
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

مَتَى • (matā)

(obsolete, rare, dialectal) from
- Abu Dhu'ayb Al-Hudhali
  شَرِبْنَ بِمَاءِ ٱلْبَحْرِ ثُمَّ تَرَفَّعَتْ مَتَى لُجَجٍ خُضْرٍ لَهُنَّ نَئِيجُ
  šaribna bimāʔi l-baḥri ṯumma taraffaʕat matā lujajin ḵuḍrin lahunna naʔīju
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From Hebrew מתי (mattai).

مَتَّى • (mattā) m

(Christianity) Matthew, one of the Twelve Disciples of Jesus and one of the Four Evangelists
(Christianity) Matthew, the first of the four canonical gospels

متى • (mata)

Heath, Judith; Mahadi, Mahamat Zene (2021), Lexique Arabe Tchadien-Français‎^[1] (in French), 11th edition, N'Djamena, Chad: SIL Chad, page 99

مِتى • (mita)