رَأْيٌ opinion in Arabic
رَأْيٌ is how you say “opinion” in Arabic.
Root ر أ ي r-ʾ-y. noun (verbal noun / maṣdar). raʾy.
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Meaning of opinion in Arabic
- opinion, view, judgment The mind's 'seeing' — forming or holding a considered judgment about something; Lane notes this is the sense in which raʾy is most commonly used.
- sight, seeing As a plain verbal noun of raʾā 'he saw (with the eye)', alongside ruʾyah.
Example sentence
قلّة التَّوْفِيق وَفَسَاد الرَّأْي وخفاء الْحق وَفَسَاد الْقلب
Lack of success, distortion of opinion, obscurity of truth, and corruption of the heart.
الرَّأْيِ of opinion
al- = 'the'; completes the 'of…' phrase: 'of opinion, of judgment'.
The English is machine-translated.
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How it is used
Raʾy is one of several verbal nouns of raʾā ('he saw'), but Lane singles it out as the form most commonly used for the mind's kind of seeing — forming, holding, or judging a view — rather than for plain visual sight, which is more the territory of ruʾyah.
Words from the same root
- رَأَى to see (with the eye, or mentally/by reflection)
- رُؤْيَةٌ seeing, sight; also mental perception or judgment
- رُؤْيَا a vision or dream seen in sleep
More example sentences
وَأَن تقضي عَلَيْهِ بآراء الْمُتَكَلِّمين وأفكار المتكلفين
And to judge it with the opinions of the theologians and the speculations of the pretentious,
بِآرَاءِ with the opinions
'Bi-' (with / by) fused with a broken plural 'opinions', first term of an 'of' pairing — 'by the opinions of the theologians'; it governs the genitive. The 'bi-' marks the means of the judging; it owns the noun that follows.
Common questions
- How do you say "opinion" in Arabic?
- رَأْيٌ (raʾy).
- What is the root of رأي?
- It is from ر-أ-ي (r-ʾ-y), the root of رأى 'to see'; raʾy is literally a kind of 'seeing' — with the mind rather than the eye — hence 'opinion, judgment'.
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).