قاء

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”).

• IPA^(key): /qaː.ʔa/

قَاءَ • (qāʔa) I, non-past يَقِيءُ‎‎ (yaqīʔu) (transitive)

1. to send, throw, or cast out; to eject; to emit; to spew; to vomit

   Synonyms: أَخْرَجَ‎ (ʔaḵraja), أَطْلَقَ‎ (ʔaṭlaqa), أَلْقَى‎ (ʔalqā)

   1. to throw up (matter from the stomach), to heave
      • 7th century CE, Sunan an-Nasāʾiyy, 32:4:

        ‏قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «الْعَائِدُ فِي هِبَتِهِ كَالْكَلْبِ يَقِيءُ ثُمَّ يَعُودُ فِي قَيْئِهِ».‏‎

        qāla rasūlu l-lahi ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wasallama: “ʔal-ʕāʔidu fī hibati-hī ka-l-kalbi yaqīʔu ṯumma yaʕūdu fī qayʔi-hī”.

        The Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, said: “The retaker of his gift is like a dog that vomits then returns to its vomit.”