Arabic vocabulary
صَوَّامfasting in Arabic
صَوَّام is how you say “fasting” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Example sentences
يَصْبَحُ النَّاسُ صَوَّامًا،
The people wake up fasting.
صَوَّامًا — fasting. This is the resulting-state word completing the 'become' verb, so it takes the accusative ending that verb assigns to its predicate. Its doubled-letter shape is the intensive pattern, painting the people as thorough, devoted fasters, not merely people who happen to fast. The accusative ties it back to 'the people' as what they turn into.
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