صحة

See also: صحت

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ص ح ح (ṣ-ḥ-ḥ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˤiħ.ħa/
• IPA^(key): /sˤiħ.ħa.tun/ (nominative, indefinite)

• Audio - nominative, indefinite - صِحَّةٌ (ṣiḥḥatun):

  (file)

Noun

صِحَّة • (ṣiḥḥa) f

1. health

   الصِّحَّةُ تَاجٌ عَلَى رُؤُوسِ الْأَصِحَّاءِ لَا يَرَاهُ إِلَّا الْمَرْضَى.

   aṣ-ṣiḥḥatu tājun ʕalā ruʔūsi l-ʔaṣiḥḥāʔi lā yarāhu ʔillā l-marḍā.

   Health is a crown on the heads of the healthy, that only the ill can see.

2. fitness (cultivation of an attractive and healthy physique)
3. soundness, wholeness, correctness
4. completeness
5. good condition
6. validity
7. God bless you!, bless you! (exclamation said when someone sneezes)

Declension

Declension of noun صِحَّة (ṣiḥḥa)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	صِحَّة ṣiḥḥa	الصِّحَّة aṣ-ṣiḥḥa	صِحَّة ṣiḥḥat
Nominative	صِحَّةٌ ṣiḥḥatun	الصِّحَّةُ aṣ-ṣiḥḥatu	صِحَّةُ ṣiḥḥatu
Accusative	صِحَّةً ṣiḥḥatan	الصِّحَّةَ aṣ-ṣiḥḥata	صِحَّةَ ṣiḥḥata
Genitive	صِحَّةٍ ṣiḥḥatin	الصِّحَّةِ aṣ-ṣiḥḥati	صِحَّةِ ṣiḥḥati

Descendants

• Indonesian: sehat
• Malay: sihat
• Persian: صحت (sehhat)
  • Azerbaijani: səhhət
  • Hindi: सेहत (sehat)
  • Ottoman Turkish: صحت
    • Turkish: sıhhat
  • Tajik: сиҳат (sihat)
  • Urdu: صحت (sehat)

References

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “صحة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “صح”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN