صام

Root entry · 19 derived lemmas

This root primarily concerns the concept of abstaining or refraining from something, most notably food and drink, which extends to fasting. It also encompasses related ideas like silence, stillness, and even specific actions like a horse spitting out its cud or a bird seeking shade.

Derived headwords

صامَverb

1.
to fastboth
To abstain from food, drink, and sexual intercourse, and sometimes speech and movement.
2.
to taste deathclassical
To experience or taste one's death.
3.
to spit out cudclassical
Said of a bird (specifically the ostrich) spitting out its cud or food.
4.
to seek shadeclassical
To seek shade under a tree, especially one that is unpleasant in appearance.
5.
to reach noonclassical
Said of the day reaching the peak of noon, the hottest part of the day.

صَوْمًاnoun

1.
fastingboth
The act of fasting, abstaining from food, drink, and other things.

صِيَامًاnoun

1.
fastingboth
The act of fasting, often used interchangeably with صوم.

اصْطَامَverb

1.
to fastclassical
To fast, to abstain from food and drink.

صَائِمadjective

1.
fastingboth
One who is fasting.

صَوْمَانadjective

1.
fastingclassical
One who is fasting, often implying a state of hunger.

صَوْمnoun

1.
fastingboth
The act of fasting.
2.
silenceclassical
The state of being silent or refraining from speech.
3.
stillness of windclassical
The cessation or stillness of the wind.
4.
Ramadanboth
The ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar, during which fasting is observed.
5.
churchclassical
A place of worship, specifically a Christian church.

صَوَّامnoun

1.
fasting peopleclassical
A collective noun for people who fast.

صِيَامnoun

1.
fastingboth
The act of fasting.

صِيمnoun

1.
fastingclassical
The act of fasting.

صِيمٌnoun

1.
fastingclassical
The act of fasting.

صِيَامَىnoun

1.
fasting peopleclassical
A collective noun for people who fast.

صَائِمٌadjective

1.
fastingboth
One who is fasting, used for singular and plural.

صَوَّامٌadjective

1.
very fastingclassical
Intensely or habitually fasting.

صِيَامٌnoun

1.
fastingboth
The act of fasting.

صِيَامِيٌّadjective

1.
related to fastingclassical
Pertaining to or characterized by fasting.

أَرْضٌ صَوَّامٌadjective

1.
dry landclassical
Land that is dry and lacks water.

مَصَامُ الْفَرَسِnoun

1.
horse's standing placeclassical
The place where a horse stands or stops.

مَصَامَتُهُnoun

1.
its standing placeclassical
Its place of standing or stopping.

Parallel reading

صام صوما وصياما

He fasted a fast and fasting.

وهو صائم وصومان وصوم

And he is a faster, a faster, and fasting.

وصام منيته

And he tasted his death.

والنعام: رمى بذرقه

And the ostrich: it spat out its cud.

وهو صومه

And it is its cud.

والرجل: تظلل بالصوم

And the man: he sought shade under the tree.

لشجرة كريهة المنظر

A tree of unpleasant appearance.

والنهار: قام قائم الظهيرة

And the day: it reached the peak of noon.

والصوم: الصمت

And fasting: silence.

وركود الريح

And the stillness of the wind.

ورمضان

And Ramadan.

والبيعة

And the church.

والصائم: للواحد والجميع

And the faster: for the singular and the plural.

وأرض صوام، كسحاب: يابسة لا ماء بها

And a dry land, like clouds: arid with no water in it.

ومصام الفرس ومصامته: موقفه

And the horse's standing place and its standing place: its stopping point.