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Arabic root

ح-م-م

Ha-Mim-Mim

2 words from this root family

About this root

Ha-Mim-Mim (ح-م-م) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: istaḥamma (to take a bath / to shower), ḥummā (fever).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 21 times in 20 verses, across 15 of the 114 suras. The first is in 6:70.

Themes: Verbs, Daily, Health, Symptoms

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
اِسْتَحَمَّ
istaḥamma
to take a bath / to showerverb, A1Action Verbs - Daily Activities
حُمّى
ḥummā
fevernoun, A2At the Doctor

In the Quran

إِلَيْهِ مَرْجِعُكُمْ جَمِيعًا ۖ وَعْدَ ٱللَّهِ حَقًّا ۚ إِنَّهُۥ يَبْدَؤُا۟ ٱلْخَلْقَ ثُمَّ يُعِيدُهُۥ لِيَجْزِىَ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ وَعَمِلُوا۟ ٱلصَّـٰلِحَـٰتِ بِٱلْقِسْطِ ۚ وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ لَهُمْ شَرَابٌ مِّنْ حَمِيمٍ وَعَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌۢ بِمَا كَانُوا۟ يَكْفُرُونَ

Unto Him is the return of all of you; it is a promise of Allah in truth. Lo! He produceth creation, then reproduceth it, that He may reward those who believe and do good works with equity; while, as for those who disbelieve, theirs will be a boiling drink and painful doom because they disbelieved.

Quran 10:4
۞ هَـٰذَانِ خَصْمَانِ ٱخْتَصَمُوا۟ فِى رَبِّهِمْ ۖ فَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ قُطِّعَتْ لَهُمْ ثِيَابٌ مِّن نَّارٍ يُصَبُّ مِن فَوْقِ رُءُوسِهِمُ ٱلْحَمِيمُ

These twain (the believers and the disbelievers) are two opponents who contend concerning their Lord. But as for those who disbelieve, garments of fire will be cut out for them; boiling fluid will be poured down on their heads,

Quran 22:19
ثُمَّ إِنَّ لَهُمْ عَلَيْهَا لَشَوْبًا مِّنْ حَمِيمٍ

And afterward, lo! thereupon they have a drink of boiling water

Quran 37:67

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

A1verb
اِسْتَحَمَّ
istaḥamma

to take a bath / to shower

Example
اِسْتَحْمَمْتُ قَبْلَ الخُرُوجِ
istaḥmamtu qabla al-khurūji
I showered before going out
Grammar

Form X verb (اِسْتَفْعَلَ) with doubled second radical. Past: istaḥamma, Present: yastaḥimmu.

A2noun
حُمّى
ḥummā

fever

Example
عِنْدَه حُمّى عالِية.
ʿindahu ḥummā ʿāliya.
He has a high fever.

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