جحيم

Compare جَحُمَ (jaḥuma, “(intransitive) to burn”).

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒa.ħiːm/
• Rhymes: -iːm

جَحِيم • (jaḥīm) f

1. inferno, large fire

   Synonym: سَعِير (saʕīr)

2. A place or situation of great suffering in life

   صَارَتْ حَيَاتُهُ جَحِيمًا ― ṣārat ḥayātuhu jaḥīman ― His life became hell.

3. An extremely hot place
4. (religion, definite اَلْجَحِيم (al-jaḥīm)) hell

   Synonyms: هَاوِيَة (hāwiya), سَعِير (saʕīr), النَّار (an-nār), جَهَنَّم (jahannam), لَظَىٰ (laẓā), سَقَر (saqar), حُطَمَة (ḥuṭama)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 79:39:

     فَإِنَّ الْجَحِيمَ هِيَ الْمَأْوَى

     faʔinna l-jaḥīma hiya l-maʔwā

     Then indeed, Hellfire will be [his] refuge.

• نَعِيم (naʕīm)

• → Persian: جحیم (jahim)
• → Gujarati: જહીમ (jahīm)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “جحيم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen
• Mu`jam al-Lughah al-Arabiyyah al-Mu`aasirah by Ahmad Mukhtar Umar (d. 2003 CE) معجم اللغة العربية المعاصرة لأحمد مختار عمر