رقل

1 رَقڤلَ see the next paragraph.4 ارقلت, said of a palm-tree (نَخْلَة), inf. n. إِرْقَالٌ, It became such as is termed رَقْلَة [q. v.]. (Msb.) b2: ارقل, (S, K,) said of a he-camel, (S,) or ارقلت, said of a she-camel, (JK, Msb, TA,) inf. n. as above, (JK, S, Msb,) He, or she, went quickly; (JK, K;) went a sort of quick pace; (Msb;) went a sort of pace of the kind termed خَبَب [q. v.]: (S, TA:) or went a sort of run exceeding that termed خَبَب: (TA:) and ↓ رَقَلَتْ signifies the same as ارقلت. (JK.) ارقل is also said of a man, (S, K,) meaning (assumed tropical:) He went quickly. (TA.) And you say, ارقلوا فِى الحَرْبِ, (TA,) or إِلَى الحَرْبِ, (JK,) (tropical:) They went quickly in, or to, war, or battle. (JK, TA.) And فُلَانٌ يُرْقِلُ فِى الأُمُورِ (assumed tropical:) [Such a one is quick in affairs]. (TA.) And أَرْقَلَتْ إِلَيْهِ is metaphorically said, by Aboo-Heiyeh En-Numeyree, of spears [as meaning (tropical:) They had been quickly directed towards him]. (TA.) A2: Accord. to Lth and the K, ارقل also signifies He traversed, or crossed, a desert: and Lth cites the following verse of El-'Ajjáj [as his authority for this explanation]: لَاهُمَّ رَبِّ البَيْتِ وَالمُشَرَّقِ وَالمُرْقِلَاتِ كُلَّ سُهْبٍ سَمْلَقِ but Az says that this is a mistake of Lth; that كُلَّ is here an adv. n.; and that the meaning is, [O God, by the Lord of the House (of Mekkeh) and of the Musharrak (the mosque of El-Kheyf) and] by the Lord of the swift she-camels in every even plain: and ISd also has notified the same. (TA.) رَقْلٌ: see the next paragraph, in two places.

رَقْلَةٌ A tall palm-tree: (S, Msb:) or a palmtree exceeding the reach of the hand; (K, * TA;) above such as is termed جَبَّارَة: or this latter word, accord. to As, has this meaning; and the former word, a palm-tree higher than such as [just] exceeds the reach of the hand: (TA:) or a palmtree of which the trunk has become such as that one may reach [the fruit] from [the top of] it: (JK:) pl. رِقَالٌ (JK, S, Msb, K) and رَقَلَاتٌ (Msb) and ↓ رَقْلٌ, (K,) or [rather] of this last it is a n. un. (Msb.) Hence the prov., وَمَا يُدْرِيكَ بِالدَّخْلِ ↓تَرَى الفِتْيَانَ كَالرَّقْلِ [Thou seest the youths, or young men, like tall palm-trees, &c.; but what will acquaint thee with the vice, &c., that is, or may be, in them?]. (TA. [See also another reading of this verse voce دَخْلٌ.]) [And رَوَاقِلُ, pl. of ↓ رَاقِلٌ, as used by a Hudhalee poet, applied to the trunks of palmtrees, signifies Tall. (“ Abulfedæ Annales,”

vol. i. page 494.)]

رَاقِلٌ; pl. رَوَاقِلُ: see what next precedes.

رَاقُولٌ A rope by means of which palm-trees are ascended; (S, TA;) so in one of the dials.; (TA;) i. q. حَابُولٌ [q. v.] (S, K) and كَرٌّ. (S.) مُرْقِلٌ (S, K) and مُرْقِلَةٌ (ISd, K) and ↓ مِرْقَالٌ (S, K) applied to a she-camel, (S, ISd, K,) That goes quickly: (K:) or that goes in the manner termed إِرْقَال much, or often: (S, TA:) and مَرَاقِيلُ [as pl. of the last] is applied [in like manner] to she-camels. (TA.) [Hence,] فِى الأُمُورِ ↓ فُلَانٌ مِرْقَالٌ [Such a one is quick in affairs]. (TA.) مِرْقَالٌ; pl. مَرَاقِيلُ: see the next preceding paragraph, in two places.

ات

ى1 أَتَى, aor. ـْ (Msb,) and, in the dial. of Hudheyl, يَأْت, without ى; (S;) and أَتَيْتُهُ, (T, S, M, Msb, K,) [aor. ـي and in the imperative, some of the Arabs say, تِ, suppressing the ا, like as is done in خُذْ and كُلْ and مُرْ; (IJ, M;) inf. n. إِتْيَانٌ, (T, S, * M, Mgh, Msb, K,) or this is a simple subst., (Msb.) and إِتْيَانَةٌ, (M, K,) which should not be used as an inf. n. of un., unless by a bad poetic licence, (Lth, T,) and أَتْىٌ (T, S, M, Msb, K) and أُتِىٌ and إِتِىٌ and مَأْتَاةٌ; (M, K;) He [or it] came; (Msb;) and I came to him, or it; (S, M, Mgh, * Msb, K;) or was, or became, present at it, namely, a place: (Mgh:) as also أَتَا, aor. ـْ (Msb;) and أَتَوْتُهُ, (T, S, M, K), aor. ـو (S:) for which reason, we assign the generality of the words mentioned in art. اتو to the present art. also. (M.) [Accord. to the authorities here indicated for the signification of أَتَى, this verb and جَآءَ are syn.: some attempt to distinguish them; but contradict one another in so doing: the slight distinctions that exist between them will be best seen by a comparison of the exs. in this art. with those in art. جيأ:] accord. to Er-Rághib, the proper [or primary] signification of الإِتْيَانُ is The coming with ease. (TA.) b2: أَتَاهَا, (Mgh, Msb,) inf. n. إِتْيَانٌ, (Msb,) [lit. He came to her,] means (assumed tropical:) he lay with her; syn. جَامَعَهَا; (Mgh, Msb;) namely, a woman, (Mgh,) or his wife. (Msb.) Hence an expression in the Kur xxvi. 165. (TA.) b3: أَتَى القَوْمَ [He came to the people: and hence,] he asserted his relationship to the people, not being of them. (Msb.) [See أَتِىُّ in art. اتو.] b4: أَتَي بِهِ [He came with, or brought, him, and it; or] he made him (a man), and it (a thing, such, for instance, as property), to come. (Kull.) [See also 4: and see, in what follows, other significations of أَتَى trans. by means of بِ. Hence, أَتَى بِوَلَدٍ He begot a child, or children. And أَتَتْ بِهِ She brought him forth; gave birth to him.] Accord. to Aboo-Is-hák, the meaning of the words in the Kur [ii. 143] أَيْنَمَا تَكُونُوا يَأْتِ بِكُمُ اللّٰهُ جَمِيعًا is, Wherever ye be, God will bring you all back unto Himself. (M.) [You say also, أَتَى بِبَيِّنَةٍ He adduced a proof.] See also 3. b5: أَتَى الأَمْرَ [He entered into, engaged in, or occupied himself with, the thing, or affair: and, as also أَتَى بِهِ,] he did, executed, or performed, the thing, or affair; (M. K;) and in like manner, الذَّنْبَ, [and بَالذَّنْبِ,] the crime, sin, or offence. (M.) It is said in the Kur [ix. 54], وَلَا يَأْتُونَ الصَّلَاةَ إِلَّا وَهُمْ كُسَالَى, meaning And they do not enter into, or engage in, prayer, unless when they are heavy, or sluggish. (TA.) And you say, أَتَى الفَاحِشَهَ, [and بِالفَاحِشَةِ, (see Kur iv. 23 and lxv. 1,)] He entered into, engaged in, or occupied himself with, [or he did, or committed,] that which was excessively foul or evil. (TA.) And أَتَى بِالجَيِّدِ مِنْ قَوْلٍ أَوْ فِعْلٍ [He said, gave utterance to, uttered, or expressed, or he brought to pass, did, or effected, what was good, or excellent; he said, or did, well, or excel-lently]. (Msb in art. جود.) And أَتَى بِجَرْىِ بَعْدَ جَرْىٍ[He (a horse) performed, or fetched, run after run]. (S in art. تأم, &c.) b6: وَلَا يُفْلِحُ السَّاحِرُ حَيْثُ أَتَى[in the Kur xx. 72] means حَيْثُ كَانَ [And the enchanter shall not prosper where he is, or wherever he may be]; (M, Bd, K;) and where he cometh: (Bd:) or حَيْثُ أَتَى بِسِحْرِهِ[where he cometh with his enchantment; or where he performeth his enchantment]: (Jel:) and it is said to mean that where the enchanter is, he must be slain: such is the doctrine of the lawyers. (M.) b7: Z mentions that أَتَىoccurs in the sense of صَارَ [He, or it, became; like as we sometimes say, he, or it, came, or came to be]; like جَآءَin the saying, جَآءَ البِنَآءُ مُحْكَمًا. (Kull.) [So you say, البِنَآءُ مُحْكَمًاThe building became, or came to be, firm, strong, or compact.] b8: The saying, in the Kur [xvi. 1], أَتَى أَمْرُ آللّٰهِ فَلَا تَسْتَعْجِلُوهُ means [The threatened punishment ordained of God hath approached: therefore desire not ye to hasten it:] its coming hath approached. (TA.) [And in like manner,] أُتِىَ فُلَانٌ, like عُنِىَ, means Such a one was approached by the enemy come in sight of him. (K.) أُتِيتَ يَا فُلَانٌ[Thou art approached &c., O such a one,] is said when one is warned of an enemy that has come in sight of him. (Sgh, TA.) And أَتَى عَلَيْهِمُ العَدُوُّmeans The enemy came to them, [or came down upon them, for, as MF observes, أَتَىwhen trans. by means of عَلَى seems to imply the meaning of نَزَلَ,] overcoming, or overpowering, them. (Bd in xviii. 40.) b9: Hence, أَتَى عَلَيْهِ[and أَتَاهُ, as will be seen by what follows,] (assumed tropical:) He destroyed him, or it. (Bd ubi suprà.) And hence, from إِتْيَانُ العَدُوِّ, (Mgh,) أَتَى عَلَيْهِ الدَّهْرُ(tropical:) Time, or fortune, destroyed him. (M, Mgh, Msb, K.) Destruction is meant in the Kur [lix. 2], where it is said, فأَتاهُمُ اللّٰهُ مِنْ حيْثُ لَمْ يَحْتَسِبُوا (assumed tropical:) [But God brought destruction upon them whence they did not reckon, or expect]. (EsSemeen, TA.) And it is said in the Kur [xvi. 28], فَأَتَى اللّٰهُ بُنْيَانَهُمْ مِنَ القَوَاعِدِ, i. e. (assumed tropical:) But God removed their building from the foundations, and demolished it upon them, so that He destroyed them. (TA.) أَتَى عَلَيْهِalso signifies (assumed tropical:) He caused it to come to an end; made an end of it; consumed it; [devoured it;] exhausted it; came to, or reached, the end of it; namely, a thing; (Kull;) as, for instance, what was in a bowl; (K in art. جردم;) and what was in a vessel; (K in art. جرجب;) like فَرَغَ مِنْهُ: (ISd cited in the TA in art. نكش:) or i. q. مَرَّ بِهِ[which may be rendered he went away with it; but this, as an explanation of أَتَى عَلَيْهِ, has another meaning, which see in what follows]. (Kull.) And one says, أُتِىَ فُلَانٌ مِنْ مَأْمَنِهِ (assumed tropical:) Destruction came to such a one from the quarter whence he felt secure. (TA.) and أُتِىَ عَلَي يَدِ فُلَانٍ(assumed tropical:) Property belonging to such a one perished. (T.) And يُؤْتَى دُونَهُ(assumed tropical:) He is taken away, or carried off, and overcome. (TA.) A poet says, أَتَى دُونَ حُلْوِالعَيْشِ حَتَّى أَمَرَّهُ نُكُوبٌ عَلَي آثَارِهِنَّ نُكُوبُ meaning (assumed tropical:) [Misfortunes, in the footsteps of which were misfortunes,] took away [what was sweet, of life, and rendered it bitter]. (TA.) One says also, مِنْ هٰهُنَا أُتِيَتْ, [so I find it written, but I think that the last word should be أُتِيتَ, agreeably with a preceding phrase from the T,] (assumed tropical:) Hence the trial, or affliction, came in upon thee. (Mgh.) And أُتِىَ مِنْ جِهَةِ كَذَا, with the verb in the passive form, (assumed tropical:) He missed [his object in respect of such a thing] by laying hold upon it when it was not fit to be laid hold upon. (Msb.) and أُتِىَ الرَّجُلُ, [also] like عُنِىَ, (assumed tropical:) The man was deceived, or deluded, and his faculty of sense became altered to him, so that he imagined that to be true which was not true. (TA.) b10: أَتَى عَلَيْهِ is also syn. with مَرَّ بِهِ[meaning He, or it, (as, for instance, a period of time,) passed by him, or over him]. (Msb.) You say, أَتَ عَلَيْهِ حَوْلٌ[A year passed over him; or he became a year old]. (S, K, Msb, in art. حول; &c.) b11: أَتَتِ النَّاقَهُ, and مَا أَحْسَنَ أَتْىَ يَدَى هذِهِ النّاقَةِ: see art. اتو.2 أتّى لِلمَآءِ, (T, S, M,) or المَآءَ, (K,) or both, (TA,) inf. n. تَأْتِيَةٌand تَأْتِىٌّ, He smoothed, made easy, or prepared, (سَهَّلَ, S, K, or هَيَّأَ, T,) the way, course, passage, or channel, of the water, (T, S, K,) in order that it might pass forth to a place; (S;) he directed a channel for it (M, TA) so that it ran to the places wherein it rested or remained. (TA.) And أتّى لِأَرْضِهِ أَتِيَّا He made a rivulet, or a channel for water, to run to his land. (M.) b2: أتّى اللّٰهُ لِفُلَانٍ أَمْرَهُ, inf. n. تَأْتِيَةٌ, (T, M, * TA,) God prepared, disposed, arranged, or put into a good or right state, [and thus rendered feasible or practicable or easy,] for such a one, his affair. (M, * TA.) 3 آتَاهُ, [inf. n. as below,] He requited, compensated, or recompensed, him. (M, K.) The saying, in the Kur [21:47], ↓ وَإِن كَانَ مِثْقَالَ حَبَّةٍ مِّنْ خَرْدَلٍ أَتَيْنَا بِهَا , some read thus, (M, * TA,) meaning [Though it be the weight of a grain of mustard,] we will bring it [forward for requital]: others read بها↓ آتَيْنَا, meaning we will give [a recompense] for it; in which case the verb is of the measure أَفْعَلَ: or we will requite for it; in which case the verb is of the measure فَاعَلَ. (M, TA.) b2: آتَيْتُهُ عَلَى الأَمْرِ, (T, S, M, Msb,) inf. n. مُؤَاتَاةٌ, (T, S,) I agreed with him, or was of one mind or opinion with him, upon, or respecting, the thing, or affair; I complied with him respecting it; (T, S, M, Msb;) in a good manner: (T:) the vulgar say, وَاتَيْتُهُ: (S:) this is of the dial. of the people of El-Yemen, inf. n. مُوَاتَاةٌ; and is the form commonly current: (Msb:) but it should not be used, except in the dial. of the people of El-Yemen. (T.) b3: [Hence, app., آتَىas meaning He aided; a signification mentioned by Golius, on the authority of Z and Ibn-Maaroof.]4 آتَاهُ, (S, M, &c.,) inf. n. إِيتَآءٌ, (TA,) i. q. أَتَى[He came with, or brought, him, or it]; (S;) he made it (a thing) to come, إِلَيْهِto him; (TA;) he made, or caused, him, or it, to be present; (Ksh, TA;) he made, or caused, it (a thing) to go, pass, or be conveyed or transmitted, (syn. سَاقَهُ,) إِلَيْهِto him. (M, K.) It is said in the Kur [xviii. 61], آتِنَا غَدآءَ نَا, i. e. اِيتِنَا[Come thou to us with, or bring thou to us, our morningmeal]. (S.) b2: Hence, (Ksh, TA,) inf. n. as above, (T, S,) He gave him (T, S, M, Msb, K) a thing, (M, K,) or property: (Msb:) and you say, هَاتِin the sense of the [imperative] آتِ [give thou]. (T.) We read in the Kur. [v. 60, &c.] وَيُؤْتُونَ الزَّكَاةَ [And they give the portion of property which is the due of the poor]. (TA.) And in [xxvii. 23 of] the same, وَأُوتِيَتْ مِنْ كُلِّ شَىْءٍ, meaning And she hath been given somewhat of everything. (M, TA.) [You say also, أُوتِىَ كَذَا as meaning He was gifted, or endowed, with such a thing; as, for instance, a faculty.] See also 3. b3: آتَيْتُ المُكَاتَبَI made a gift to the slave between whom and me was a contract that he should become free on payment of a certain sum: or I abated, or took off, somewhat of his appointed part-payments, or instalments. (Msb.) b4: مَا آتَاكُمُ الرَّسُولُ, in the Kur lix. 7, means What the Apostle giveth you, of the [spoil termed] فَىْء, (Bd, Jel,) &c.: (Jel:) or what command he giveth you: (Bd:) or what he commandeth you [to receive]. (Kull.) b5: أُوتِىَ فِى شَىْءٍ A dispute, or an altercation, was held before him, respecting the meaning of a thing: [perhaps more properly signifying he was given authority to decide respecting a thing:] occurring in a trad. (Mgh.) 5 تأتّى لَهُ It (an affair, T, Mgh, Msb, K, or a thing, S, M) was, or became, prepared, disposed, arranged, or put into a good or right state, for him; (T, * S, M, Mgh, Msb, K;) and hence, it (a thing) was, or became, feasible or practicable, and easy, to him; (Mgh;) it (an affair) was, or became, facilitated, or easy, to him; (Msb;) the way thereof (i. e. of an affair) was, or became, facilitated, or easy, to him. (TA.) The following is an ex.: تَأَتَّى لَهُ الدَّهْرُ حَتَّى انْجَبَرْ [Fortune became well, or rightly, disposed for him, so that he became restored to wealth, or competence]: (T:) or تَأَتَّى لَهُ الخَيْرُ الخ[good fortune, or prosperity, became prepared, &c., for him, &c.]. (So in the TA.) And hence the saying, هٰذَا مِمَّا يَتَأَتَّى لِىَ المَضْغُThis is of the things which it is feasible or practicable, and easy, to me to chew. (Mgh). b2: He applied himself to it with gentleness, (As, S, K,) and so تأتّى لَهَا, meaning لِحَاجَتِهِ, to his needful affair or business, (T,) and entered into it, engaged in it, occupied himself with it, did it, executed it, or performed it, by the way, or manner, proper, or suitable, to it. (As, T, S, K. [In the CK, for أَتَاهُ مِنْ وَجْهِهِ, we find اتاهُ عن وَجْهِه.]) And تأتّى فِى أَمرِهِHe used gentleness, or acted gently, in his affair. (Msb.) b3: تأتّى لَهُ بِسَهْمٍ حَتَّى أَصَابَهُ He sought him leisurely or repeatedly [with an arrow, app. taking aim in one direction and then in another, until he hit him]. (Z, TA.) b4: جَآءَ فُلَانٌ يَتَأَتَّى is explained by Fr as meaning يَتَعَرَّضُ لِمَعْرُوفِكَ [Such a one came, or has come, addressing, or applying, or directing, himself, or his regard, or attention, or mind, to obtain thy favour, or bounty]. (S.) and you say, تأتّى لِمَعرُوفِهِ, meaning تَعَرَّضَ لَهُ[He addressed, applied, or directed, himself, &c., to obtain his favour, or bounty]. (TA.) b5: Some say that تأتّىsignifies He prepared himself to rise, or stand. (TA.) 10 استآتى فلَاناًHe asked such a one to come, deeming him slow, or tardy. (K.) b2: استأتت النَّاقَةُ The she-camel desired to be covered; (A, TA;) desired the stallion; (S, M, K;) being excited by lust. (S, A.) إِتَّى: see أَتِىٌّ.

أَتْيَةٌ A single coming; as also أَتْوَةٌ; but not ↓ إِتْيَانَةٌ, unless by a bad poetic licence. (T.) b2: See also أُتِيَّةُ الجُرحِ.

إِتْيَانٌis either an inf. n. of أَتَى, or a simple subst. [signifying A coming]. (Msb.) إِتْيَانَةٌan inf. n. of 1 [q. v.]: (M, K:) see also أَتْيَةٌ.

أَتَآءٌor إِتَآءٌ: see أتِىٌّ.

أَتِىٌّas syn. with أتَاوِىٌّ: see art. اتو. b2: Also, (M, and so in some copies of the K, where it is said to be like رَضِىٌّ,) or ↓ إِتًى, like رِضًى, (so in other copies of the K,) and ↓ أَتَآءٌ, (M, K,) written by some إِتَآءٌ, (TA,) What falls, of wood or leaves, into a river: (M, K:) from الإِتْيَانُ: (M:) pl. آتَآءٌ[in the CK اِتاء] and أُتِىٌّ. (M, K.) b3: رَجُلٌ أَتِىٌّ A man who is sharp, energetic, vigorous, and effective, in affairs; who applies himself to them with gentleness, and enters into them, or performs them, by the way, or manner, proper, or suitable, to them. (M.) b4: فَرَسٌ أَتِىٌّ: see مُسْتَأْتٍ.

أُتِيَّةُ الجُرْحِ, (so in a copy of the M,) or ↓ أُتِّيَّتُهُ, (so in some copies of the K, and accord. to the TA,) or ↓ أَتْيَتُهُ, (so in other copies of the K,) and ↓ آتِيَتُهُ, (so in the M, and in some copies of the K,) or ↓ إِتِّيَتُهُ, (so in some copies of the K, and accord. to the TA,) or أَتِيَّتُهُ, (so in a copy of the K,) The matter which comes from the wound: (M, K:) from Aboo-'Alee. (TA.) أَتَّىi. q. حَتَّى; (K;) a dial. var. of the latter. (TA.) إِتِيَتُهُ الجُرحِand أُتّيَّتُهُ: see أُتِيَّةُ الآجُرْحِ.

آتٍ [Coming; (see also مَأْتِىٌّ;) applied to a man, &c.; and to time, meaning future: also a comer: b2: and hence,] An angel. (Mgh, Msb.) آتِيَةُ الجُرحِ: see أُتِيَّةُ الجُرْحِ.

مَأْتًى A place of coming. (Msb.) [And ↓ مَأْتَاةً signifies the same: or A road, or way, by which one comes; a way of access; an approach; as also مَأْتًى: or, more properly, a means of coming.]

b2: مَأْتَى المَرْأَةِ [The place of access of the woman; i. e. the meatus of her vagina; or her vagina itself;] the مَحِيض, or place of menstruation, of the woman. (Zj in the TA in art. حيض.) b3: مَأْتَىِ الأَمرِ and ↓ مَأْتَاتُهُ The way, or manner, (وَجْه, S, or جِهَة, M, K,) of the affair, (S, M, K,) by which it is, or is to be, entered into, engaged in, done, executed, or performed; like as you say مَعْنَي الكَلَامِ and مَعْنَاتُهُ, meaning the same by both. (S.) You say, أَتَيْتُ الأَمْرَ مِنْ مَأْتاهُand ↓ مَأْتَاتِهِ, (S, M,) i. e., مِنْ وَجْهِهِ الَّذِي يُؤُتَى مِنْهُ[I entered into, engaged in, did, executed, or performed, the affair by the way, or manner, whereby it should be entered into, &c.], (S,) or مِنْ جِهَتِهِ [which means the same]. (M.) مُؤْتًى: see مُسْتَأْتٍ.

مَأْتَاةً: see مَأْتًى, in three places.

مَأْتِىٌّ [pass. part. n. of 1; Come: come to:] is of the measure مَفْعُولٌ; the وbeing changed into ىand incorporated into the ىwhich is the final radical letter. (S.) In the saying, in the Kur [xix. 62], إِنَّهُ كَانَ وَعْدُهُ مَأْتِيًّا, the meaning is ↓ آتِيًا [Verily that which He hath promised, or the fulfilment of his promise, is coming]; like as, in the phrase حِجَابًا مَسْتُورًا, in the Kur [xvii. 47], سَاتِرًا is meant: or it may be a pass. part. n. [in signification as well as form]; for what cometh to thee, of that which God commandeth, thou comest thereto. (S.) It is said in a prov., مَأْتِىٌّ أَنْتَ أَيُّهَا السَّوَادُ [lit. Thou art come to, O thou person], meaning there is no escape for thee from this event. (TA.) b2: Applied to a man, it also signifies أُتِىَ فِيهِ[in a sense indicated in the Kur xxvi.165]. (TA.) طَرِيقٌ مِئْتآءٌ A road to which people come (Th, M, Mgh, Msb) much, or often; (Mgh, Msb;) the latter word being of the measure مِفْعَال, (Th, M, Mgh, Msb,) originally مِئْتَاىٌ or مِئْتَاوٌ; (Msb;) from أَتَيْتُ, (Th, M,) or الإِتْيَانُ; [or from أَتَوْتُ;] like دَارٌ مِحْلاَلٌ, i. e. a house where people alight or abide much, or often: (Mgh, Msb:) a road that is frequented (S, M, K) and conspicuous: (M, K:) in [some of] the copies of the K, incorrectly, مِئْتَآءَةٌ: (TA:) A' Obeyd has inadvertently written it without [the radical] ء, and in the category of فِعْلَآءٌ. (M.) Death is thus termed in a trad., as being a way which every one travels: (TA:) and as that trad. is related, it is without [the radical] ء. (M.) b2: مئْتَآءٌ الطَّرِيقِThe main part, or middle, of the road; or the part of the road along which one travels: (Sh, TA:) or the space within which the road is comprised; (S, Msb, K;) as also مِيدَآءُ الطريقِ: (TA:) or this last, as also مِيتَآءُ الطريقِ, signifies the measure of the two sides, and the distance, of the road. (L in art. ميت.) b3: مِئْتَآءٌalso signifies The extreme limit of the distance to which horses run; (S, Msb;) and so مِيدَآءٌ. (S, TA.) b4: And i. q. تِلْقَآءٌ(K.) You say, دَارِى بِمئْتَآءِ دَارِ فُلَانٍ My house is opposite to the house of such a one; facing it, or fronting it; and so بِمِيدَآءِ دِارِهِ; (S;) and بِمِيتَآءِ دَارِهِ. (L in art. ميت.) b5: And بَنَى القَوْمُ بُيُوتَهُمْ عَلَى مِئْتَآءٍ وَاحِدٍ (S) and مِيدَآءٍ وَاحِدٍ (S, and L in art. ميد,) The people built their houses, or constructed their tents, after one mode, manner, fashion, or form. (L in art. ميد.) A2: رَجُلٌ مِئتَآءٌ A man who requites, compensates, or recompenses; who gives much, or largely. (M, K.) فَرَسٌ مُسْتَأْتٍ, and ↓ أَتِىٌّ, and ↓ مُؤْتًى, and مستوتى, [so I find it written, perhaps for مُسْتَوْتٍ, which may be a dial. van. of مُسْتأْتٍ, like as وَاتَيْتُهُis of آتَيْتُهُ,] A mare desiring the stallion. (TA.)