he sleeps
Form I verb, present tense. A hollow verb (middle radical is wāw). Root n-w-m gives: nawm (sleep), manām (dream).
Nun-Waw-Mim
2 words from this root family
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.
| Word | Meaning | Type | Taught in |
|---|---|---|---|
يَنَامُ yanāmu | he sleeps | verb, A1 | Essential Verbs |
نَامَ nāma | to sleep | verb, A1 | Action Verbs - Daily Activities |
أَفَأَمِنَ أَهْلُ ٱلْقُرَىٰٓ أَن يَأْتِيَهُم بَأْسُنَا بَيَـٰتًا وَهُمْ نَآئِمُونَAre the people of the townships then secure from the coming of Our wrath upon them as a night-raid while they sleep?
إِذْ يُرِيكَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ فِى مَنَامِكَ قَلِيلًا ۖ وَلَوْ أَرَىٰكَهُمْ كَثِيرًا لَّفَشِلْتُمْ وَلَتَنَـٰزَعْتُمْ فِى ٱلْأَمْرِ وَلَـٰكِنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَلَّمَ ۗ إِنَّهُۥ عَلِيمٌۢ بِذَاتِ ٱلصُّدُورِWhen 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).
وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِى جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلَّيْلَ لِبَاسًا وَٱلنَّوْمَ سُبَاتًا وَجَعَلَ ٱلنَّهَارَ نُشُورًاAnd He it is Who maketh night a covering for you, and sleep repose, and maketh day a resurrection.
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).
Form I verb, present tense. A hollow verb (middle radical is wāw). Root n-w-m gives: nawm (sleep), manām (dream).
Hollow verb (Form I). Past: nāma, Present: yanāmu.