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صَائِم fasting in Arabic

صَائِم is how you say “fasting” 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.'

صَائِمٍ a fasting person

An indefinite noun, 'a fasting person', governed by the particle before it and so in its special ending. Its lack of 'the' marks it as 'any such person', a representative case, not one specific man.

From Empty Fasting, Empty Prayer

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