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معى
Root entry · 4 derived lemmasThis root primarily relates to the intestines and the act of eating. It extends to concepts of sinfulness, the path or channel of something, and a specific term for ripened dates.
Derived headwords
المَعَىnoun
- 1.singular of al-amʿāʾ (intestines)both
singular of al-amʿāʾ (intestines)
أَمْعَاءnoun
- 1.intestinesboth
The plural of intestine, referring to the digestive tract.
مَعَىnoun
- 1.pathclassical
A channel or course, particularly a path of land.
المَعْوnoun
- 1.ripened datesclassical
A term used when all the dates have ripened.
Parallel reading
المعى واحد الأمعاء.
Al-ma'a is the singular of the intestines.
المؤمن يأكل في معى واحد، والكافر في سبعة أمعاء.
The believer eats in one intestine, and the disbeliever eats in seven intestines.
وهو مثل، لأن المؤمن لا يأكل إلا من الحلال ويتوقى الحرام والشبهة، والكافر لا يبالي ما أكل ومن أين أكل وكيف أكل.
And it is a proverb, because the believer only eats from the lawful and avoids the unlawful and the dubious, while the disbeliever does not care what he eats, from where he eats, or how he eats.
والمعى أيضا: المذنب من مذانب الارض.
And al-ma'a also means: the sinful one from the paths of the earth.
إذا أرطب النخل كله فذلك المعو.
If all the palm trees become ripe, then that is al-ma'w.