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مَأْتِىٌّ ذ [pass. part. n. of 1; Come: come to:] is of the measure مَفْعُولٌ; the وbeing changed into ىand incorporated into the ىwhich is the final radical letter. (S.) In the saying, in the Kur [xix. 62], إِِنَّهُ كَانَ وَعْدُهُ مَأْتِيًّا, the meaning is ↓ آتِيًا [Verily that which He hath promised, or the fulfilment of his promise, is coming]; like as, in the phrase حِجَابًا مَسْتُورًا, in the Kur [xvii. 47], سَاتِرًا is meant: or it may be a pass. part. n. [in signification as well as form]; for what cometh to thee, of that which God commandeth, thou comest thereto. (S.) It is said in a prov., مَأْتِىٌّ أَنْتَ أَيُّهَا السَّوَادُ[lit. Thou art come to, O thou person], meaning there is no escape for thee from this event. (TA.) ― -b2- Applied to a man, it also signifies أُتِىَ فِيهِ[in a sense indicated in the Kur xxvi. 165]. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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