طعام

Cognate with Hebrew טַעַם (ṭāʿām).

• IPA^(key): /tˤa.ʕaːm/

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طَعَام • (ṭaʕām) m (plural أَطْعِمَة (ʔaṭʕima))

1. (countable, uncountable) food
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:259:

     قَالَ بَل لَّبِثْتَ مِائَةَ عَامٍ فَٱنْظُرْ إِلَى طَعَامِكَ وَشَرَابِكَ لَمْ يَتَسَنَّهْ

     qāla bal labiṯta miʔata ʕāmin fa-nẓur ʔilā ṭaʕāmika wa-šarābika lam yatasannah

     He said, “Rather, you have remained one hundred years. Look at your food and your drink; it has not changed with time.”

   • a. 1135, Ibn ʿAbdūn, “Un document sur la vie urbaine et les corps de métiers à Séville au début du XII^e siècle: Le traité d’Ibn ʿAbdūn publié avec une introduction et un glossaire”, in Évariste Lévi-Provençal, editor, Journal asiatique‎^[1], number 2, published 1934, page 243 (٥١) 12:
   1. prepared meal
      • a. 1135, Ibn ʿAbdūn, “Un document sur la vie urbaine et les corps de métiers à Séville au début du XII^e siècle: Le traité d’Ibn ʿAbdūn publié avec une introduction et un glossaire”, in Évariste Lévi-Provençal, editor, Journal asiatique‎^[2], number 2, published 1934, page 235 (٤٣) 12:
2. (verbal noun) feeding
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 89:18:

     وَلَا تَحَاضُّونَ عَلَى طَعَامِ ٱلْمِسْكِينِ

     wa-lā taḥāḍḍūna ʕalā ṭaʕāmi l-miskīni

     And ye urge not on feeding the poor.

3. (countable, uncountable, formerly Ḥijāz, al-Andalus, now South Tunisia) wheat
   • a. 1135, Ibn ʿAbdūn, “Un document sur la vie urbaine et les corps de métiers à Séville au début du XII^e siècle: Le traité d’Ibn ʿAbdūn publié avec une introduction et un glossaire”, in Évariste Lévi-Provençal, editor, Journal asiatique‎^[3], number 2, published 1934, page 229 (٣٧) 2:
   • a. 1135, Ibn ʿAbdūn, “Un document sur la vie urbaine et les corps de métiers à Séville au début du XII^e siècle: Le traité d’Ibn ʿAbdūn publié avec une introduction et un glossaire”, in Évariste Lévi-Provençal, editor, Journal asiatique‎^[4], number 2, published 1934, page 242 (٥٠) 15:
   • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 1, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 16, page 680:

     وقيل إن نضح بقدر جرة من ماء الزيتون قدر مائة جرة من الطعام لم يفسد ولم تصبه آفة وإن نضح عليه ماء الأفسنتين بقي ولم يفسد.

     It is said that when a jar of wheat is dampened with a jar of amurca it does not suffer decay nor damage, and if it is dampened with absinthe water, it stays and does not rot.

   Synonyms: قَمْح (qamḥ), حِنْطَة (ḥinṭa), بُرّ (burr), غَلَّة (ḡalla)

4. (countable, uncountable, Ḥaḍramawt) grain, cereal

From Arabic طَعَام (ṭaʕām, “wheat, grain”).

• IPA^(key): /tˤʕaːm/

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طعام • (ṭʿām) m

1. couscous

   Synonyms: سكسو (saksu, suksu), كسكسو (ksaksu, ksuksu)

From Arabic طَعَام (ṭaʕām).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪ə.(ʔ)ɑːm/

طَعام • (ta'ām) m (Hindi spelling तआम)

1. food, victuals

   Synonyms: کھانا (khānā), بھوجَن (bhojan)

• “طعام”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “طعام”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.