صَوْم fast in Arabic
صَوْم is how you say “fast” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
رُبَّ صَائِمٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنْ صَوْمِهِ إِلَّا الْجُوعُ وَالْعَطَشُ، وَرُبَّ قَائِمٍ لَيْسَ لَهُ مِنْ قِيَامِهِ إِلَّا السَّهَرُ
'Perhaps a fasting person gains nothing from his fast except hunger and thirst, and perhaps one who prays gains nothing from his prayer except sleeplessness.'
صَوْمِهِ his fast
A noun, 'his fast', with 'his' attached as possessor. The suffix marks the fast as the person's own, and it stands under the 'from' as the act yielding nothing but hunger.
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More example sentences
يَعْنِي أَنَّهُ إِذَا لَمْ يَكُنِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالصَّوْمُ لِوَجْهِ اللهِ تَعَالَى فَلَا ثَوَابَ لَهُ
This means that if the prayer and fasting are not done for the sake of Allah, then there is no reward for them.
وَالصَّوْمُ and the fasting
The connector 'and' joined to a definite noun, 'the fasting', carrying 'the', paired with 'the prayer' as a second subject. The 'the' marks it as fasting in the prescribed sense.