قاء

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قاء

/qaː.ʔa/

Where it comes from

From the root ق ي ء (q y ʔ). The initial uvular and final glottal may point to onomatopoeia for retching, with parallel developments in other Afroasiatic languages, 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”).

verb قَاءَ · qāʔa · يَقِيءُ · قَيْء · قَاءٍ

transitive to send, throw, or cast out; to eject; to emit; to spew; to vomit
Similar: أَخْرَجَ, أَطْلَقَ, أَلْقَى
transitive to throw up (matter from the stomach), to heave قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «الْعَائِدُ فِي هِبَتِهِ كَالْكَلْبِ يَقِيءُ ثُمَّ يَعُودُ فِي قَيْئِهِ».
Similar: أَخْرَجَ, أَطْلَقَ, أَلْقَى

In English

vomit regurgitate the contents of a stomach

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {قاء},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A1},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}