فوم

• IPA^(key): /fuːm/

فُوم • (fūm) m (collective) (hapax legomenon)

1. Classical Arabic form of ثُوم (ṯūm)
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:61:

     وَإِذْ قُلْتُمْ يَـٰمُوسَىٰ لَن نَّصْبِرَ عَلَىٰ طَعَامٍ وَٰحِدٍ فَٱدْعُ لَنَا رَبَّكَ يُخْرِجْ لَنَا مِمَّا تُنْبِتُ ٱلْأَرْضُ مِنْ بَقْلِهَا وَقِثَّائِهَا وَفُومِهَا وَعَدَسِهَا وَبَصَلِهَا […]

     waʔiḏ qultum yāmūsā lan naṣbira ʕalā ṭaʕāmin wāḥidin fadʕu lanā rabbaka yuḵrij lanā mimmā tunbitu l-ʔarḍu min baqlihā waqiṯṯāʔihā wafūmihā waʕadasihā wabaṣalihā […]

     And [recall] when you said, "O Moses, we can never endure one [kind of] food. So call upon your Lord to bring forth for us from the earth its green herbs and its cucumbers and its garlic and its lentils and its onions." […]