# رمى
## Arabic
### Etymology

From the root ر م ي (r m y), from Proto-Semitic *ramay- (“to throw”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ra.maː/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

رَمَى • (ramā) I (non-past يَرْمِي (yarmī), verbal noun رَمْي (ramy) or رِمَايَة (rimāya))
* to throw, to toss [with accusative ‘at whom’ and بِ (bi) ‘with what’]
    Hyponyms: قَذَفَ (qaḏafa), رَجَمَ (rajama)
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 105:3-4:وَأَرْسَلَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَيْرًا أَبَابِيلَ تَرْمِيهِمْ بِحِجَارَةٍ مِنْ سِجِّيلٍwa-ʔarsala ʕalayhim ṭayran ʔabābīla tarmīhim biḥijāratin min sijjīlinAnd He sent against them birds in flocks, striking them with stones of hard clay
* to throw away, to throw out, to discard
** a. 1165, ابن التلميذ [Ibn al-Tilmīḏ], edited by Oliver Kahl, The Dispensatory of Ibn At-Tilmīḏ الأقراباذين الكبير (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies; 70), Leiden: Brill, published 2007, →ISBN, page 139 Nr. 302:ويحرك بدستج الهاون نعما ويصفى في منخل ويرمى بالثفل ثم تعاود عليه التصفية […](now) stir it gently with a pestle, strain it into a sieve, and throw away the sediment (that has gathered upon it); then clear it again […]
* to shoot [with accusative ‘at whom’ and بِ (bi) ‘with what’]
    رَمَاهُ بِالرَّصَاصِ ― ramāhu bi-r-raṣāṣi ― He shot him by bullets
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 8:17:فَلَمْ تَقْتُلُوهُمْ وَلٰكِنَّ ٱللّٰهَ قَتَلَهُمْ وَمَا رَمَيْتَ إِذْ رَمَيْتَ وَلٰكِنَّ ٱللّٰهَ رَمَى وَلِيُبْلِيَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ مِنْهُ بَلَاءً حَسَنًا إِنَّ ٱللّٰهَ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌfa-lam taqtulūhum wa-lākinna llāha qatalahum wa-mā ramayta ʔiḏ ramayta wa-lākinna llāha ramā wa-li-yubliya l-muʔminīna minhu balāʔan ḥasanan ʔinna llāha samīʕun ʕalīmunAnd you did not kill them, but it was Allah who killed them. And you threw not, [O Muhammad], when you threw, but it was Allah who threw that He might test the believers with a good test. Indeed, Allah is Hearing and Knowing.
** a. 684, معن بن أوس [Maʿn Ibn Aws], فيا عجباً لمن ربيت طفلاً […]:أُعَلِّمُهُ ٱلرِّمَايَةَ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ / فَلَمَّا ٱشْتَدَّ سَاعِدُهُ رَمَانِي.ʔuʕallimu-hū r-rimāyata kulla yawmin / fa-lammā štadda sāʕidu-hū ramānī.I teach him shooting every day; and when his arm was steady he shot me.
* to baselessly accuse, to defame
    Synonym: قَذَفَ (qaḏafa)
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 4:112:وَمَن يَكْسِبْ خَطِيئَةً أَوْ إِثْمًا ثُمَّ يَرْمِ بِهِ بَرِيئًا فَقَدِ ٱحْتَمَلَ بُهْتَانًا وَإِثْمًا مُبِينًاwa-man yaksib ḵaṭīʔatan ʔaw ʔiṯman ṯumma yarmi bihi barīʔan fa-qadi ḥtamala buhtānan wa-ʔiṯman mubīnanBut whoever earns an offense or a sin and then blames it on an innocent has taken upon himself a slander and manifest sin.
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 24:4:وَٱلَّذِينَ يَرْمُونَ ٱلْمُحْصَنَاتِ ثُمَّ لَمْ يَأْتُوا بِأَرْبَعَةِ شُهَدَاءَ فَٱجْلِدُوهُمْ ثَمَانِينَ جَلْدَةً وَلَا تَقْبَلُوا لَهُمْ شَهَادَةً أَبَدًا وَأُولٰئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْفَاسِقُونَwa-llaḏīna yarmūna l-muḥṣanāti ṯumma lam yaʔtū bi-ʔarbaʕati šuhadāʔa fa-jlidūhum ṯamānīna jaldatan wa-lā taqbalū lahum šahādatan ʔabadan wa-ʔulāʔika humu l-fāsiqūnaAnd those who accuse chaste women and then do not produce four witnesses: lash them with eighty lashes and do not accept from them testimony ever after. And those are the defiantly disobedient.

#### Descendants

* Maltese: rema

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic رَمَى (ramā).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rmaː/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

رمى • (rma) I (non-past يرمي (yarmi), verbal noun رمي (rmī) or رميان (ramyān), active participle رامي (rāmi), passive participle مرمي (marmi))
* to throw, to toss
    Synonyms: لاح (lāḥ), سيب (sayyab)

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## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic رَمَى (ramā).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ra.ma/, [ˈra.ma]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Verb

رمى • (rama) I (present برمي (birmi))
* to throw, to toss
    Synonyms: كبّ (kabb), شلف (shalaf)
* to throw away, to throw out, to discard
    Synonyms: كبّ (kabb), زتّ (zatt)