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ميا

Root entry · 4 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns names, specifically female names and names for female monkeys. It also includes a term for a type of wheat.

Derived headwords

مِيَةname
  1. 1.
    female nameboth

    A proper name for a woman.

  2. 2.
    female monkeyclassical

    A name given to a female monkey, and by extension, a woman's name was derived from it.

مِيname
  1. 1.
    female nameboth

    Also a name for a woman.

الْمِيَةnoun
  1. 1.
    female monkeyclassical

    The female monkey.

الْمَايِيَّةnoun
  1. 1.
    type of wheatclassical

    A type of wheat that is white with a yellowish hue, and its grains are smaller than those of the 'barthajiyyah' wheat.

Parallel reading

مِيَة: اسم امرأة
Miyah: a name for a woman.
ومِي أيضا
And Miy also.
وقيل: مِيَة من أسماء القردة، وبها سميت المرأة.
And it was said: Miyah is among the names of monkeys, and a woman was named after it.
زعموا أن القردة الأنثى تسمى مِيَة، ويقال مِنَة.
They claimed that the female monkey is called Miyah, and also Minah.
المِيَة القردة؛ عن ابن خالويه.
Al-Miyah is the monkey; according to Ibn Khuluwayh.
وأما قولهم مِي ففي الشعر خاصة
As for their saying Miy, it is specific to poetry.
فإما أن يكون اللفظ في أصله هكذا، وإما أن يكون من باب أمال.
Either the word is like this in its origin, or it is from the pattern of 'amala (to incline).
والمايِيَّة حنطة بيضاء إلى الصفرة وحبها دون حب البرثجانية؛ حكاه أبو حنيفة.
And al-Mayiyyah is a wheat that is white with a yellowish hue, and its grain is smaller than the grain of al-Barthajiyyah; Abu Hanifa narrated this.