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د-و-م

Dal-Waw-Mim

2 words from this root family

About this root

Dal-Waw-Mim (د-و-م) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: dawām (work hours / shift), istidāma (sustainability).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 9 times in 9 verses, across 6 of the 114 suras. The first is in 3:75.

Themes: Work, Academic Formal

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
دَوام
dawām
work hours / shiftnoun, A2Work Communication
اِسْتِدَامَة
istidāma
sustainabilitynoun, B2Scholarly Discussion

In the Quran

قَالُوا۟ يَـٰمُوسَىٰٓ إِنَّا لَن نَّدْخُلَهَآ أَبَدًا مَّا دَامُوا۟ فِيهَا ۖ فَٱذْهَبْ أَنتَ وَرَبُّكَ فَقَـٰتِلَآ إِنَّا هَـٰهُنَا قَـٰعِدُونَ

They said: O Moses! We will never enter (the land) while they are in it. So go thou and thy Lord and fight! We will sit here.

Quran 5:24
أُحِلَّ لَكُمْ صَيْدُ ٱلْبَحْرِ وَطَعَامُهُۥ مَتَـٰعًا لَّكُمْ وَلِلسَّيَّارَةِ ۖ وَحُرِّمَ عَلَيْكُمْ صَيْدُ ٱلْبَرِّ مَا دُمْتُمْ حُرُمًا ۗ وَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ ٱلَّذِىٓ إِلَيْهِ تُحْشَرُونَ

To hunt and to eat the fish of the sea is made lawful for you, a provision for you and for seafarers; but to hunt on land is forbidden you so long as ye are on the pilgrimage. Be mindful of your duty to Allah, unto Whom ye will be gathered.

Quran 5:96
۞ مَّثَلُ ٱلْجَنَّةِ ٱلَّتِى وُعِدَ ٱلْمُتَّقُونَ ۖ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَـٰرُ ۖ أُكُلُهَا دَآئِمٌ وَظِلُّهَا ۚ تِلْكَ عُقْبَى ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّقَوا۟ ۖ وَّعُقْبَى ٱلْكَـٰفِرِينَ ٱلنَّارُ

A similitude of the Garden which is promised unto those who keep their duty (to Allah): Underneath it rivers flow; its food is everlasting, and its shade; this is the reward of those who keep their duty, while the reward of disbelievers is the Fire.

Quran 13:35

Arabic text: Tanzil Quran Text (Uthmani 1.1), CC BY 3.0, tanzil.net. English: Marmaduke Pickthall, The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930), public domain, via Project Gutenberg. Counts and verse choice: Quranic Arabic Corpus morphology data (corpus.quran.com).

Word cards with examples

A2noun
دَوام
dawām

work hours / shift

Example
الدَوام يَبْدَأ في الثامِنة صَباحًا.
ad-dawām yabdaʾ fī ath-thāmina ṣabāḥan.
Work hours start at eight in the morning.
B2noun
اِسْتِدَامَة
istidāma

sustainability

Example
الاستِدامَةُ البيئِيَّةُ مَسؤولِيَّةُ الجَميع.
al-istidāmatu l-bīʾiyyatu masʾūliyyatu l-jamīʿ.
Environmental sustainability is everyone's responsibility.

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