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(ض، س) يَتَمَ يَيْتِمُyatama yaytimu / يَتِمَ يَيْتَمُ يُتْمًاyatima yaytamu yutman: to be left without a father. (this verb is not used in the Quran).
يَتِيْمyatīm pl. يَتَامَيٰ وَأَيْتَامyatāmā wa-ʾaytām: orphan — the lexicographers state that among humans the orphan is one who has lost his father, and among animals one that has lost its mother; the basic sense, moreover, is solitariness and singularity (دُرَّة يَتِيْمَةdurrah yatīmah = a peerless pearl). A morphological point: يَتَامَيٰyatāmā is on the same pattern (فَعَالَيٰfaʿālā) as أَيَامَيٰayāmā and مَرْضَيٰmarḍā. Examples: ﴿فَأَمَّا الْيَتِيْمَ فَلَا تَقْهَرْ﴾ (Aḍ-Ḍuḥā 93:9) and ﴿وَآتُوا الْيَتَامٰۤي أَمْوَالَهُمْ﴾ (An-Nisāʾ 4:2).