فَم mouth in Arabic
فَم is how you say “mouth” in Arabic.
Root ف م f-m. noun (masculine; irregular declension). fam.
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Meaning of mouth in Arabic
- mouth (of a human or animal) the basic and most common sense
- teeth metonymic (tropical) use — 'the mouth' standing for the teeth
- opening, mouth (of a river, the womb, etc.) figurative extension, as in فَمُ النَّهْرِ 'the mouth of the river' and فَمُ الرَّحِمِ 'the mouth of the womb'
- branch (of something) figurative use, opposed to اِسْت 'root/base'
Example sentence
وَمِنْه قَوْله تَعَالَى ٥ الْكَهْف ﴿كَبرت كلمة تخرج من أَفْوَاههم﴾ الْآيَة
And from it His, the Exalted, saying: 'Grievous is the word that comes out of their mouths.'
أَفْوَاهِهِمْ their mouths
'their mouths' — 'afwah' (a broken plural of 'mouth') with 'their' attached, genitive after 'min'. The '-hum' is 'their', pointing to the deniers spoken of.
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How it is used
فَم is a worn-down form of the older word فُوهٌ/فَوْهٌ (root ف و ه): the final ه was dropped and م substituted for the now-quiescent و, which is why the diminutive and plural revert to the original letters — فُوَيْهٌ and أَفْوَاهٌ, not forms built on م. It is unusually irregular, occurring in three vowelings (fam, fum, fim) and taking و/ا/ى endings when attached to a suffix other than 'my' (فُوهُ, فَاهُ, فِيهِ), alongside a simpler فَمُهُ. Beyond the literal body part, it is used figuratively for 'teeth' and for the 'mouth/opening' of a river, a womb, or similar things.
Words from the same root
- فَمٌ mouth — the standard form of the word (also pronounced fum or fim)
- فَمِىٌّ relational adjective — 'of the mouth, oral'
- فُمَّ dialectal variant of the conjunction ثُمَّ, 'then'
- فُمٌّ geminated (doubled-m) form of فَم, 'mouth', found in poetry
- فُمَيْمٌ diminutive of the geminated form فُمّ, 'little mouth'
More example sentences
قال العطار لأنك وضعت الدواء في عينه، وكان ينبغي أن تجعله في فمه
The herbalist said, 'Because you put the medicine in its eye, and you were supposed to put it in its mouth.'
فَمِهِ its mouth
The place, 'its mouth', in the genitive after the preposition, with the owner attached as a suffix pointing back to the donkey. One word carries noun and owner.
فقال جحا لو كنت تعلم أن الدواء يوضع في الفم ما أعطيتني إياه لعين
Joha said, 'If you knew that the medicine should go in the mouth, why did you give it to me for the eye!'
الفَمِ the mouth
The place, 'the mouth', in the genitive after the preposition, made definite by its 'the'.
Common questions
- How do you say "mouth" in Arabic?
- فَم (fam).
- What is the plural of فَم؟
- أَفْوَاه (afwāh), built on the word's original root ف و ه rather than on م.
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).