Dictionaries

  • Ejtaal Arabic Almanac: Lane's Lexicon, Hans Wehr, Lisan al-Arab and others
  • Perseus: Lane's Lexicon (in text format)
    • wEy
    • wEy (if it is not found in the link above)
The root wEy (و ع ي) occurs 7 times in Quran, in 4 derived forms:
  • 1 times as verb tAy
  • 1 times as active adjective waAyẗ
  • 2 times as form IV verb awAya
  • 3 times as noun wAaa

tAy

1

so that We might make all this* a [lasting] reminder to you all, and that every wide-awake ear might consciously take it in.
and amass [wealth] and thereupon withhold [it from their fellow-men].

3

Yet God has full knowledge of what they conceal [in their hearts].*

wAaa

4

Thereupon [they were brought before Joseph to be searched; and] he began with the bags of his half-brothers* before the bag of his brother [Benjamin]: and in the end he brought forth the drinking Cups* out of his brother's bag. In this way did We contrive for Joseph [the attainment of his heart's desire]: under the King's law, he would [otherwise] not have been able to detain his brother, had not God so willed. We do raise to [high] degrees [of knowledge] whomever We will - but above everyone who is endowed with knowledge there is One who knows all.*