ءَاتَىٰ
Ātā: to give
The 45th most common word in the Quran · Updated 18 October 2026
Short answer
ءَاتَىٰ (ātā) means "to give". It appears 271 times in the Quran, making it the 45th most common word: about 0.35% of all the words you read.
Example from the Quran
ٱلَّذِى يُؤْتِى مَالَهُۥ يَتَزَكَّىٰ
Al-Layl 92:18 · Read the translation on Quran.com
It first appears in Al-Baqarah 2:43.
How it appears in the Quran
The most common ways ءَاتَىٰ is written, with small words like "and" or endings like "his" attached:
- أُوتُوا۟31×
- ءَاتَيْنَا17×
- أُوتِىَ14×
- وَءَاتُوا۟11×
- وَءَاتَيْنَٰهُ9×
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
ءَاتَىٰ comes from the root أ ت ي. Other common words from this root: أَتَىٰ (to come (with bi-: to bring)).
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Sources
- Counts calculated by Ayah Explorer from the Quranic Arabic Corpus (morphology v0.4), using the open quran-morphology dataset.