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مَتَى

interrogative  ·  1 entry  ·  Qur'ānic frequency 9

This is Lane’s article on مَتَى. In the printed Lexicon he files it under متى — that is where it appears on the page, not the word’s root.

Lane’s articleمَتَى2 senses · 1 main
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It means When?, and it is also used to denote a condition: see أَنَّى and أَيْنَ.

1.1until when? how long?—حَتَّى مَتَى

It also means: until the time when.

Show Lane's original text
signifies When? and when used to denote a condition: see أَنَّى and أَيْنَ . حَتَّى مَتَى Until when? how long? and also until the time when. See Freytag's Arab. Prov. i. 382.