صحيح

Compare صَحَّ (ṣaḥḥa, “to be healthy, to be correct”). Cognate with Hebrew צח (tsákh, “pure, unblemished”).

• IPA^(key): /sˤa.ħiːħ/

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صَحِيح • (ṣaḥīḥ) (feminine صَحِيحَة (ṣaḥīḥa), common plural صِحَاح (ṣiḥāḥ), masculine plural صَحِيحُون (ṣaḥīḥūn) or أَصِحَّاء (ʔaṣiḥḥāʔ) or أَصِحَّة (ʔaṣiḥḥa), feminine plural صَحِيحَات (ṣaḥīḥāt) or صَحَائِح (ṣaḥāʔiḥ), elative أَصَحّ (ʔaṣaḥḥ))

1. complete, perfect, whole
2. sound, healthy

   الصِّحَّةُ تَاجٌ عَلَى رُؤُوسِ الْأَصِحَّاءِ لَا يَرَاهُ إِلَّا الْمَرْضَى.

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

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

3. correct

   Synonym: صَوَاب (ṣawāb)

   Antonym: خَطَأ (ḵaṭaʔ)

4. true
5. authentic
6. valid
7. regular
8. genuine

• (antonym(s) of “true, valid”): بَاطِل (bāṭil)

• Moroccan Arabic: صحيح (ṣḥīḥ)
• → Ottoman Turkish: صحیح (ṣaḥîḥ)

  Turkish: > sahih (inherited), ⇒ sahi

• → Pashto: صحيح (sahih)
• → Persian: صحیح (sahih)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: सही (sahī)

    Urdu: صحیح (sahīh)

  • → Marwari: सई (saī)
  • → Middle Bengali: সহি (śohi)
    • Bengali: সই (śoi)
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਸਹੀ (sahī)

    Shahmukhi script: صَحِیح (ṣaḥīḥ), سَہِی (sahī)

• → Swahili: sahihi

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

From Arabic صَحِيح (ṣaḥīḥ).

• IPA^(key): /sˤħiːħ/

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صحيح • (ṣḥīḥ) (feminine صحيحة (ṣḥīḥa), common plural صحاح (ṣḥāḥ), masculine plural صحيحين (ṣḥīḥīn), feminine plural صحيحات (ṣḥīḥāt), elative أصحح (ʔaṣḥaḥ) or صحح (ṣḥaḥ))

1. healthy
2. strong
3. correct

Borrowed from Classical Persian صحیح (sahih).

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صَحِيحُ • (sahihu) (Devanagari सहिहु)

1. true, right, correct, rectified, ascertained, precise

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “صَحِيح”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
• Khānu, Balocu (1960–1988) “صَحِيحُ”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ

From Arabic صَحِيح (ṣaḥīḥ).

• IPA^(key): /sˤħiːħ/,

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صحيح • (ṣḥīḥ) (feminine صحيحة (ṣḥīḥa), elative أصحّ (ʔaṣaḥḥ))

1. true, right, correct

   Synonym: مظبوط (maẓbūṭ)

   Antonym: غلط (ḡalaṭ)

• صح (ṣaḥḥ, “right!, true!”, interjection)