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إِلَى
to, toward /ʔiˈlaː/
particleA1#14 most common
Also: up to, as far as, until, into / onto (direction)
Example sentences
ذَهَبْتُ إِلَى الْبَيْتِ.
I went to the house.
هَلْ تَذْهَبُ إِلَى الْمَدْرَسَةِ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ؟
Do you go to school every day?
سَأُسافِرُ إِلَى مِصْرَ فِي الصَّيْفِ الْقادِمِ.
I will travel to Egypt next summer.
اِنْتَقَلَتِ الْعائِلَةُ مِنَ الْقَرْيَةِ إِلَى الْمَدينَةِ بَحْثًا عَنِ الْعَمَلِ.
The family moved from the village to the city in search of work.
أَشارَ الْكاتِبُ فِي مَقالِهِ إِلَى ضَرورَةِ الْإِصْلاحِ السِّياسِيِّ.
In his article, the writer pointed to the necessity of political reform.
بِالنِّسْبَةِ إِلَى مُعْظَمِ الْخُبَراءِ، فَإِنَّ الْأَزْمَةَ سَتَمْتَدُّ إِلى نِهايَةِ الْعامِ.
According to most experts, the crisis will extend until the end of the year.
Word family
إِلَيْهِto him / to it
إِلَيْكَto you
إِلَيَّto me
بِالنِّسْبَةِ إِلَىin relation to, with respect to
إِلَى اللِّقاءِuntil we meet again (goodbye)
Etymology
إِلَى is an inherited Semitic preposition expressing direction and end-point ('to, toward, up to'). It is not derived from a triliteral verbal root but is a primitive particle reconstructable to Proto-Semitic. Its final long vowel is written with alif maqṣūra (ى) and surfaces as -ay- when a pronominal suffix is attached (e.g. إِلَيْهِ 'to him').
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