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س-م-ن

Sin-Mim-Nun

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About this root

Sin-Mim-Nun (س-م-ن) has 1 word in the Fahm dictionary: samīn (fat / overweight).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 4 times in 4 verses, across 3 of the 114 suras. The first is in 12:43.

Themes: Adjectives, Physical

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeTaught in
سَمين
samīn
fat / overweightadjective, A1Adjectives - Final Set

In the Quran

وَقَالَ ٱلْمَلِكُ إِنِّىٓ أَرَىٰ سَبْعَ بَقَرَٰتٍ سِمَانٍ يَأْكُلُهُنَّ سَبْعٌ عِجَافٌ وَسَبْعَ سُنۢبُلَـٰتٍ خُضْرٍ وَأُخَرَ يَابِسَـٰتٍ ۖ يَـٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلْمَلَأُ أَفْتُونِى فِى رُءْيَـٰىَ إِن كُنتُمْ لِلرُّءْيَا تَعْبُرُونَ

And the king said: Lo! I saw in a dream seven fat kine which seven lean were eating, and seven green ears of corn and other (seven) dry. O notables! Expound for me my vision, if ye can interpret dreams.

Quran 12:43
يُوسُفُ أَيُّهَا ٱلصِّدِّيقُ أَفْتِنَا فِى سَبْعِ بَقَرَٰتٍ سِمَانٍ يَأْكُلُهُنَّ سَبْعٌ عِجَافٌ وَسَبْعِ سُنۢبُلَـٰتٍ خُضْرٍ وَأُخَرَ يَابِسَـٰتٍ لَّعَلِّىٓ أَرْجِعُ إِلَى ٱلنَّاسِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ

(And when he came to Joseph in the prison, he exclaimed): Joseph! O thou truthful one! Expound for us the seven fat kine which seven lean were eating and the seven green ears of corn and other (seven) dry, that I may return unto the people, so that they may know.

Quran 12:46
لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِى مِن جُوعٍ

Which doth not nourish nor release from hunger.

Quran 88:7

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

A1adjective
سَمين
samīn

fat / overweight

Example
القِطُّ سَمين
al-qiṭṭu samīn
The cat is fat
Grammar

Feminine form: samīna (سَمينة). Opposite of naḥīf (نَحيف, thin).

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