Arabic root

س-م-و

Sin-Mim-Waw

4 words from this root family

About this root

Sin-Mim-Waw (س-م-و) has 4 words in the Fahm dictionary: ismun (name), samāʾ (sky / heaven), sammā (to name / to call), samāʾ (sky).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 381 times in 352 verses, across 81 of the 114 suras. The first is in 1:1. The form سَمَاءٌ (sky / heaven) accounts for 310 of them.

Themes: Nouns, Greetings, Quranic, Verbs, Communication, Nature Weather

Words from this root

Word	Meaning	Type	In the Quran	Taught in
اِسْمٌ ismun	name	noun, A1		This & That - Demonstratives & First Nouns
سَمَاءٌ samāʾ	sky / heaven	noun, A1	310×	The Natural World in the Quran
سَمَّى sammā	to name / to call	verb, A1	8×	Action Verbs - Miscellaneous
سَمَاء samāʾ	sky	noun, B1	310×	Weather Patterns

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

In the Quran

بِسْمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحْمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.

Quran 1:1

أَوْ كَصَيِّبٍ مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ فِيهِ ظُلُمَـٰتٌ وَرَعْدٌ وَبَرْقٌ يَجْعَلُونَ أَصَـٰبِعَهُمْ فِىٓ ءَاذَانِهِم مِّنَ ٱلصَّوَٰعِقِ حَذَرَ ٱلْمَوْتِ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ مُحِيطٌۢ بِٱلْكَـٰفِرِينَ

Or like a rainstorm from the sky, wherein is darkness, thunder and the flash of lightning. They thrust their fingers in their ears by reason of the thunder-claps, for fear of death, Allah encompasseth the disbelievers (in His guidance, His omniscience and His omnipotence).

Quran 2:19

فَلَمَّا وَضَعَتْهَا قَالَتْ رَبِّ إِنِّى وَضَعْتُهَآ أُنثَىٰ وَٱللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا وَضَعَتْ وَلَيْسَ ٱلذَّكَرُ كَٱلْأُنثَىٰ ۖ وَإِنِّى سَمَّيْتُهَا مَرْيَمَ وَإِنِّىٓ أُعِيذُهَا بِكَ وَذُرِّيَّتَهَا مِنَ ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنِ ٱلرَّجِيمِ

And when she was delivered she said: My Lord! Lo! I am delivered of a female - Allah knew best of what she was delivered - the male is not as the female; and lo! I have named her Mary, and lo! I crave Thy protection for her and for her offspring from Satan the outcast.

Quran 3:36

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).