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Arabic root

ن-و-م

Nun-Waw-Mim

2 words from this root family

About this root

Nun-Waw-Mim (ن-و-م) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: yanāmu (he sleeps), nāma (to sleep).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 9 times in 9 verses, across 9 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:255.

Themes: Verbs, Basics, Daily, Health

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
يَنَامُ
yanāmu
he sleepsverb, A1Essential Verbs
نَامَ
nāma
to sleepverb, A1Action Verbs - Daily Activities

In the Quran

أَفَأَمِنَ أَهْلُ ٱلْقُرَىٰٓ أَن يَأْتِيَهُم بَأْسُنَا بَيَـٰتًا وَهُمْ نَآئِمُونَ

Are the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our wrath upon them as a night-raid while they sleep?

Quran 7:97
إِذْ يُرِيكَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ فِى مَنَامِكَ قَلِيلًا ۖ وَلَوْ أَرَىٰكَهُمْ كَثِيرًا لَّفَشِلْتُمْ وَلَتَنَـٰزَعْتُمْ فِى ٱلْأَمْرِ وَلَـٰكِنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَلَّمَ ۗ إِنَّهُۥ عَلِيمٌۢ بِذَاتِ ٱلصُّدُورِ

When Allah showed them unto thee (O Muhammad) in thy dream as few in number, and if He had shown them to thee as many, ye (Muslims) would have faltered and would have quarreled over the affair. But Allah saved (you). Lo! He knoweth what is in the breasts (of men).

Quran 8:43
وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلَّيْلَ لِبَاسًا وَٱلنَّوْمَ سُبَاتًا وَجَعَلَ ٱلنَّهَارَ نُشُورًا

And He it is Who maketh night a covering for you, and sleep repose, and maketh day a resurrection.

Quran 25:47

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
يَنَامُ
yanāmu

he sleeps

Example
الطِّفْلُ يَنَامُ مُبَكِّرًا.
aṭ-ṭiflu yanāmu mubakkiran.
The child sleeps early.
Grammar

Form I verb, present tense. A hollow verb (middle radical is wāw). Root n-w-m gives: nawm (sleep), manām (dream).

A1verb
نَامَ
nāma

to sleep

Example
نامَ الطفلُ مبكّراً
nāma aṭ-ṭiflu mubakkiran
The child slept early
Grammar

Hollow verb (Form I). Past: nāma, Present: yanāmu.

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