Arabic root

ص-و-م

Sad-Waw-Mim

1 word from this root family

About this root

Sad-Waw-Mim (ص-و-م) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: ṣawm (fasting).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 14 times in 11 verses, across 6 of the 114 suras. The first is in 2:183. The form صَوْمٌ (fasting) accounts for 1 of them.

Themes: Quranic

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
صَوْمٌ ṣawm	fasting	noun, B1	1×	Worship and Prayer

“In the Quran” counts every occurrence of that dictionary form, in any of its senses.

In the Quran

يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ ٱلصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ

O ye who believe! Fasting is prescribed for you, even as it was prescribed for those before you, that ye may ward off (evil);

Quran 2:183

فَكُلِى وَٱشْرَبِى وَقَرِّى عَيْنًا ۖ فَإِمَّا تَرَيِنَّ مِنَ ٱلْبَشَرِ أَحَدًا فَقُولِىٓ إِنِّى نَذَرْتُ لِلرَّحْمَـٰنِ صَوْمًا فَلَنْ أُكَلِّمَ ٱلْيَوْمَ إِنسِيًّا

So eat and drink and be consoled. And if thou meetest any mortal, say: Lo! I have vowed a fast unto the Beneficent, and may not speak this day to any mortal.

Quran 19:26

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

B1noun

صَوْمٌ

ṣawm

fasting

Example

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ

yā ayyuhā alladhīna āmanū kutiba ʿalaykumu aṣ-ṣiyāmu kamā kutiba ʿalā alladhīna min qablikum

O you who believe, fasting has been prescribed for you as it was prescribed for those before you (2:183)

Root: ص-و-م Quranic

Grammar

Masculine verbal noun (maṣdar). Synonym: صِيَامٌ (ṣiyām). Related: صَائِمٌ (fasting person, pl: صَائِمُونَ/صُوَّامٌ). The verb: صَامَ/يَصُومُ.

Culture

Fasting during Ramadan is the fourth pillar of Islam. This verse establishes that fasting is not unique to Islam but was prescribed for earlier communities as well.