Arabic vocabulary
حَامِيprotector in Arabic
حَامِي is how you say “protector” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in a real example sentence from classical texts below.
Root ح م و (ḥ-m-w)noun (active participle, fāʿil-pattern of a final-weak root)Pronounced ḥāmī
Meaning of protector in Arabic
- protector, one who protects
Lane's lists this form among the ح م و entries, but the root's own documented vocabulary is about relatives by marriage, not protection: حَمٌ (and its variants) names a woman's husband's male relative, and its feminine حَمَاةٌ names the husband's mother. The headword's sense "protector" stands apart from that in-law vocabulary.
Words from the same root
- حَمٌa woman's husband's male relative — father-in-law, brother-in-law, etc.
- حَمَاةٌa husband's mother, i.e. mother-in-law (also used for the calf muscle of the leg)
- حَمُوvariant of ḥam, declined like abū and used only before a following genitive
Common questions
- How do you say "protector" in Arabic?
- حَامِي (ḥāmī).
- What does the Arabic root ح م و (ḥ-m-w) mean?
- It covers relatives by marriage: حَمٌ is a husband's male in-law, and حَمَاةٌ is a wife's husband's mother (mother-in-law).
Definitions synthesised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).
Example sentences
وحامل راية الإسلام وحامي حوزة الدين ومحيي السنة عند عوام أصحابه،
And the bearer of the banner of Islam, the protector of the domain of the faith, and the reviver of the Sunnah in the view of the common people among his followers.
وَحَامِي — the protector. The conjunction adds another active participle, the protector-of, nominative and the head of a new possessive pairing. It names him as one who guards, owning the following word as 'protector of'.
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