sawm

English

Alternative forms

saum

Etymology

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

Noun

sawm (uncountable)

(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 (zh), 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: rojî (ku)
Sorani: ڕۆژوو‎ (rojû)
Kyrgyz: орозо (ky) (orozo)

Malay: puasa
Malayalam: വ്രതം (ml) (vrataṃ)
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 (savm)
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

Further reading

Fasting in the Quraan

Anagrams

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

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