أمي

أُمّ (ʔumm, “mother”) +‎ ـِيّ (-iyy).

• IPA^(key): /ʔum.mijj/

أُمِّيّ • (ʔummiyy) (feminine أُمِّيَّة (ʔummiyya), masculine plural أُمِّيُّون (ʔummiyyūn), feminine plural أُمِّيَّات (ʔummiyyāt))

1. maternal

أُمَّة (ʔumma, “nation”) +‎ ـِيّ (-iyy).

• IPA^(key): /ʔum.mijj/

أُمِّيّ • (ʔummiyy) (feminine أُمِّيَّة (ʔummiyya), masculine plural أُمِّيُّون (ʔummiyyūn), feminine plural أُمِّيَّات (ʔummiyyāt))

1. gentile, unlettered
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 7:157:

     الَّذِينَ يَتَّبِعُونَ الرَّسُولَ النَّبِيَّ الأُمِّيَّ الَّذِي يَجِدُونَهٗ مَكْتُوبًا عِنْدَهُمْ فِي التَّوْرٰةِ وَالاِنْجِيلِ

     And they that follow the Messenger, the gentile/unlettered prophet, whom they find recorded in their possession within the Law (Torah) and the Gospel

أُمِّيّ • (ʔummiyy) m (plural أُمِّيُّون (ʔummiyyūn)) (countable)

1. gentile, illiterate, heathen
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:78:

     وَمِنْهُمْ أُمِّيُّونَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ الْكِتَابَ إِلَّا أَمَانِيَّ وَإِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ

     wa-minhum ʔummiyyūna lā yaʕlamūna l-kitāba ʔillā ʔamāniyya wa-ʔin hum ʔillā yaẓunnūna

     And among them are gentiles/illiterates who know not the Scripture but wishful thinking, and they but conjecture.

• IPA^(key): /ʔa.mi.ja/

أَمِيَ • (ʔamiya) I (non-past يَأْمَى (yaʔmā), verbal noun ?)

1. to become a female slave