عدم

• عَدِمَ (active): IPA^(key): /ʕa.di.ma/
• عُدِمَ (passive): IPA^(key): /ʕu.di.ma/

عَدِمَ • (ʕadima) I (non-past يَعْدَمُ (yaʕdamu), verbal noun عُدْم (ʕudm) or عَدَم (ʕadam))

1. to lack, not to have
2. to lose, to miss

عُدِمَ • (ʕudima) I (passive-only, non-past يُعْدَمُ (yuʕdamu), verbal noun عَدَم (ʕadam) or عُدْم (ʕudm))

1. not to exist

• وُجِدَ (wujida)

عَدَم • (ʕadam) m (plural أَعْدَام (ʔaʕdām))

1. verbal noun of عَدِمَ (ʕadima) (form I)
2. non-existence, nothingness
3. nothing
4. lack, absence
5. non-, un-, in-, dis- (with following genitive)
6. nonentity

• وُجُود (wujūd)

• → Ottoman Turkish: عدم
  • Turkish: adem

عُدْم • (ʕudm) m

1. verbal noun of عَدِمَ (ʕadima) (form I)
2. lack

Borrowed from Arabic عَدَم (ʕadam).

عدم • (adam)

1. nonexistence

   Antonym: وجود (vojud)

   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3790:

     رخت خود را من ز ره برداشتم
     غیر حق را من عدم انگاشتم

     raxt-i xwad rā man zi rah bardāštam
     ğayr-i haqq rā man adam angāštam

     I have removed the baggage of self out of the way,
     I have deemed other than God to be non-existence.

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 170:

     نی زنده‌ام از هجر تو ای شوخ نه مرده
     فریاد از این نوع وجود عدم آلود

     nē zinda'am az hajr-i tō ay šōx na murda
     faryād az īn naw'-i wujūd-i adam ālūd

     Due to parting from you, o mischievous one, I am neither alive nor dead;
     I bemoan this kind of existence tainted with nonexistence!

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. (with ezâfe) absence (of), non-

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “عدم”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

From Arabic عَدَم (ʕadam).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /(ʔ)ə.d̪əm/

عَدَم • ('adam) m (Hindi spelling अदम)

1. nonexistence, negation, nonentity, nothingness, void
2. non-possession, lack
3. being lost

• “عدم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “عدم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.