sawm

English

Alternative forms

• saum

Etymology

From Arabic صَوْم (ṣawm, “fasting; abstaining from food, drink, and sex”), probably borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Classical Syriac ܨܘܡܐ (ṣawmāʾ).

Noun

sawm (uncountable)

1. (Islam) fasting, abstention, abstinence; the third of the five pillars of Islam

Translations

Islamic fasting

• Arabic: صَوْم m (ṣawm), صِيَام m (ṣiyām)
• Azerbaijani: oruc (az)
• Bengali: রোজা (roja)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 齋戒／斋戒 (zh) (zhāijiè), 斋戒 (zh) (zhāijiè), 禁食 (zh) (jìnshí)

• Dhivehi: ރޯދަ (rōda)
• Finnish: saum
• French: saoum m
• Georgian: საუმი (saumi)
• German: Saum (de)
• Indonesian: puasa (id), saum (id)
• Japanese: サウム (saumu)
• Kazakh: ораза (kk) (oraza)
• Korean: 사움 (saum)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ڕۆژوو (rojû)

• Kyrgyz: орозо (ky) (orozo)
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• Malay: puasa
• Malayalam: വ്രതം (ml) (vrataṁ)
• Pashto: روژه (ps)
• Persian: روزه (fa) (roza)
• Polish: saum m
• Portuguese: sawm f
• Russian: ураза́ (ru) f (urazá), са́ум m (sáum), пост (ru) m (post)
• Sinhalese: සව්ම් (sawm)
• Spanish: sawm m
• Tagalog: saum
• Tajik: рӯза (rüza)
• Tatar: ураза (tt) (uraza)
• Turkish: oruç (tr)
• Urdu: روزہ m (roza)
• Uzbek: roʻza
• Western Panjabi: روزہ (roza)

See also

• Lent
• Yom Kippur

Further reading

• Fasting in the Quraan

Anagrams

• MAWs, Maws, WMAs, awms, maws, swam, wasm