رمى

From the root ر م ي‎ (r-m-y), from Proto-Semitic *ramay- (“to throw”).

• IPA^(key): /ra.maː/

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رَمَى • (ramā) I, non-past يَرْمِي‎‎ (yarmī)

1. to throw, to toss [+accusative = at whom] [+ بِ‎ (object) = ]
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 105:3-4:

     ‏وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ
     تَرْمِيهِمْ بِحِجَارَةٍ مِنْ سِجِّيلٍ‎

     wa-ʔarsala ʕalayhim ṭayran ʔabābīla
     tarmīhim biḥijāratin min sijjīlin

     And He sent against them birds in flocks,
     striking them with stones of hard clay

   Hyponyms: قَذَفَ‎ (qaḏafa), رَجَمَ‎ (rajama)

2. to throw away, to throw out, to discard
3. to shoot [+accusative = at whom] [+ بِ‎ (object) = ]

   ‏رَمَاهُ بِالرَّصَاصِ‎

   ramāhu bi-r-raṣāṣi

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   • ‏أُعَلِّمُهُ ٱلرِّمَايَةَ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ
     فَلَمَّا ٱشْتَدَّ سَاعِدُهُ رَمَانِي‎‎

     ʔuʕallimuhu r-rimāyata kulla yawmin
     falammā štadda sāʕiduhū ramānī

     I teach him shooting every day;
     and when his arm was steady he shot me

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 8:17:

     ‏فَلَمْ تَقْتُلُوهُمْ وَلٰكِنَّ ٱللّٰهَ قَتَلَهُمْ وَمَا رَمَيْتَ إِذْ رَمَيْتَ وَلٰكِنَّ ٱللّٰهَ رَمَى وَلِيُبْلِيَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْهُ بَلَاءً حَسَنًا إِنَّ ٱللّٰهَ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ‎

     fa-lam taqtulūhum wa-lākinna llāha qatalahum wa-mā ramayta ʔiḏ ramayta wa-lākinna llāha ramā wa-li-yubliya l-muʔminīna minhu balāʔan ḥasanan ʔinna llāha samīʕun ʕalīmun

     And you did not kill them, but it was Allah who killed them. And you threw not, [O Muhammad], when you threw, but it was Allah who threw that He might test the believers with a good test. Indeed, Allah is Hearing and Knowing.

4. to baselessly accuse, to defame

   Synonym: قَذَفَ‎ (qaḏafa)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 4:112:

     ‏وَمَن يَكْسِبْ خَطِيئَةً أَوْ إِثْمًا ثُمَّ يَرْمِ بِهِ بَرِيئًا فَقَدِ ٱحْتَمَلَ بُهْتَانًا وَإِثْمًا مُبِينًا‎

     wa-man yaksib ḵaṭīʔatan ʔaw ʔiṯman ṯumma yarmi bihi barīʔan fa-qadi ḥtamala buhtānan wa-ʔiṯman mubīnan

     But whoever earns an offense or a sin and then blames it on an innocent has taken upon himself a slander and manifest sin.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 24:4:

     ‏وَٱلَّذِينَ يَرْمُونَ ٱلْمُحْصَنَاتِ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَأْتُوا بِأَرْبَعَةِ شُهَدَاءَ فَٱجْلِدُوهُمْ ثَمَانِينَ جَلْدَةً وَلَا تَقْبَلُوا لَهُمْ شَهَادَةً أَبَدًا وَأُولٰئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْفَاسِقُونَ‎

     wa-llaḏīna yarmūna l-muḥṣanāti ṯumma lam yaʔtū bi-ʔarbaʕati šuhadāʔa fa-jlidūhum ṯamānīna jaldatan wa-lā taqbalū lahum šahādatan ʔabadan wa-ʔulāʔika humu l-fāsiqūna

     And those who accuse chaste women and then do not produce four witnesses: lash them with eighty lashes and do not accept from them testimony ever after. And those are the defiantly disobedient.

• Maltese: rema

From Arabic رَمَى‎ (ramā).

• IPA^(key): /rma/

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رمى • (rma) (form I, non-past يرمي‎ (yarmi))

1. to throw, to toss

   Synonym: لاح‎ (lāḥ)

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From Arabic رَمَى‎ (ramā).

• IPA^(key): /ra.ma/, [ˈra.ma]

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رمى • (rama) (form I, present برمي‎ (birmi))

1. to throw, to toss

   Synonyms: كبّ‎ (kabb), شلف‎ (shalaf)

2. to throw away, to throw out, to discard

   Synonym: زتّ‎ (zatt)