sawm

English

Alternative forms

saum

Etymology

From Arabic صَوْم (ṣawm, “fasting; abstaining from food, drink, and sex”), probably borrowed from Classical Syriac ܨܘܡܐ (ṣawmāʾ).

Noun

sawm (uncountable)

(Islam) fasting, abstention, abstinence; the third of the five pillars of Islam

Translations

Islamic fasting

Arabic: صَوْم m (ṣawm), صِيَام m (ṣiyām)
Armenian: սաում (saum)
Azerbaijani: oruc (az)
Bengali: রোজা (bn) (rōja)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 齋戒 / 斋戒 (zh) (zhāijiè), 禁食 (zh) (jìnshí)
Dhivehi: ރޯދަ (rōda)
Finnish: saum
French: saoum m
Georgian: საუმი (saumi)
German: Saum (de)
Hindi: रोज़ा m (rozā)
Indonesian: puasa (id), saum (id)
Japanese: サウム (ja) (saumu)
Kazakh: ораза (oraza)
Korean: 사움 (saum)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ڕۆژوو (rojû)

Northern Kurdish: rojî (ku)
Kyrgyz: орозо (ky) (orozo)
Malay: puasa (ms)
Malayalam: വ്രതം (ml) (vrataṁ)
Marathi: रोजा m (rojā)
Ottoman Turkish: اوروج (oruç)
Pashto: روژه (ps)
Persian: روزه (fa) (roza)
Polish: saum m
Portuguese: sawm f
Russian: ураза́ (ru) f (urazá), са́ум m (sáum), пост (ru) m (post)
Sinhalese: සව්ම් (sawm)
Spanish: sawm m
Tagalog: saum
Tajik: рӯза (rüza)
Tatar: ураза (tt) (uraza)
Turkish: oruç (tr)
Urdu: روزہ m (roza)
Uzbek: roʻza
Western Panjabi: روزہ (roza)

See also

Further reading

Fasting in the Quraan

Anagrams

MAWs, MSAW, Maws, WMAs, awms, maws, swam, wasm

Maltese

Root
s-w-m
3 terms

Etymology

From Arabic صَوْم (ṣawm).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sawm/
Rhymes: -awm

Noun

sawm m (instance noun sawma)

verbal noun of sam: fasting

Tedim Chin

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *soom. Akin to Mizo shom.

Numeral

sawm

ten

References

Zomi Ordbog by D.L. Haokip