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Arabic root

س-ي-ح

Sin-Ya-Ha

2 words from this root family

About this root

Sin-Ya-Ha (س-ي-ح) has 2 words in the Fahm dictionary: siyāḥa (tourism), sāʾiḥ (tourist).

In the Quran, words built on this root occur 3 times in 3 verses, across 2 of the 114 suras. The first is in 9:2. The form سائِح (tourist) accounts for 1 of them.

Themes: Travel

Words from this root

WordMeaningTypeIn the QuranTaught in
سِياحة
siyāḥa
tourismnoun, A2Travel Plans & Booking
سائِح
sāʾiḥ
touristnoun, A21×Travel Plans & Booking

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

In the Quran

فَسِيحُوا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ أَرْبَعَةَ أَشْهُرٍ وَٱعْلَمُوٓا۟ أَنَّكُمْ غَيْرُ مُعْجِزِى ٱللَّهِ ۙ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ مُخْزِى ٱلْكَـٰفِرِينَ

Travel freely in the land four months, and know that ye cannot escape Allah and that Allah will confound the disbelievers (in His Guidance).

Quran 9:2
عَسَىٰ رَبُّهُۥٓ إِن طَلَّقَكُنَّ أَن يُبْدِلَهُۥٓ أَزْوَٰجًا خَيْرًا مِّنكُنَّ مُسْلِمَـٰتٍ مُّؤْمِنَـٰتٍ قَـٰنِتَـٰتٍ تَـٰٓئِبَـٰتٍ عَـٰبِدَٰتٍ سَـٰٓئِحَـٰتٍ ثَيِّبَـٰتٍ وَأَبْكَارًا

It may happen that his Lord, if he divorce you, will give him in your stead wives better than you, submissive (to Allah), believing, pious, penitent, devout, inclined to fasting, widows and maids.

Quran 66:5

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

A2noun
سِياحة
siyāḥa

tourism

Example
السِياحة مُهِمّة لِلاِقْتِصاد.
as-siyāḥa muhimma lil-iqtiṣād.
Tourism is important for the economy.
A2noun
سائِح
sāʾiḥ

tourist

Example
هُناك كَثير مِن السُيّاح هُنا.
hunāk kathīr min as-suyyāḥ hunā.
There are many tourists here.

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