أَتَىٰ
Atā: to come (with bi-: to bring)
The 48th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
أَتَىٰ (atā) means "to come (with bi-: to bring)". It appears 264 times in the Quran, making it the 48th most common word: about 0.34% of all the words you read.
Example from the Quran
هَلْ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ مُوسَىٰٓ
An-Nazi'at 79:15 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:23.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways أَتَىٰ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- يَأْتِىَ14×
- يَأْتِ10×
- فَأْتُوا۟9×
- يَأْتِى7×
- أَتَىٰكَ6×
Verbs are listed by their past-tense "he" form, as in Arabic dictionaries. The count includes every form of the verb, such as "he says", "they said" and "say!".
Related words from the same root
أَتَىٰ comes from the root أ ت ي. Other common words from this root: ءَاتَىٰ (to give).
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Sources
- Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.