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Arabic root

س-ه-م

Sin-Heh-Mim

2 words from this root family

About this root

Sin-Heh-Mim (س-ه-م) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: ishām (contribution), sahm (stock / share).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 1 time in 1 verse, across 1 of the 114 suras. The first is in 37:141.

Themes: Academic Formal, Law Economics

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
إِسْهَام
ishām
contributionnoun, B2Academic Writing
سَهْم
sahm
stock / sharenoun, B2Crime & Justice

In the Quran

فَسَاهَمَ فَكَانَ مِنَ ٱلْمُدْحَضِينَ

And then drew lots and was of those rejected;

Quran 37:141

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

B2noun
إِسْهَام
ishām

contribution

Example
لَهُ إسهامٌ كَبيرٌ في مَجالِ الطِّبّ.
lahu ishāmun kabīrun fī majāli ṭ-ṭibb.
He has a great contribution to the field of medicine.
B2noun
سَهْم
sahm

stock / share

Example
اِرتَفَعَت أَسعارُ الأَسهُمِ في البورصَة.
irtafaʿat asʿāru l-ashumi fī l-būrṣa.
Stock prices rose on the exchange.

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