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Arabic
Etymology
From Proto-Semitic *yawm- .
Pronunciation
Noun
يَوْم • (yawm ) m (plural أَيَّام ( ʔayyām ) )
day , period from sunrise to sunset
Antonym: لَيْلَة ( layla )
أَذْهَبُ إِلَى ٱلْمَدْرَسَةِ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ . ʔaḏhabu ʔilā l-madrasati kulla yawmin . I go to school every day .
609–632 CE , Qur'an , 69:7 :سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَانِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًا فَتَرَى الْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَى كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍ saḵḵarahā ʕalayhim sabʕa layālin wa-ṯamāniyata ʔayyāmin ḥusūman fa-tarā l-qawma fīhā ṣarʕā kaʔannahum ʔaʕjāzu naḵlin ḵāwiyatin Which Allah imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.
day , period of twenty-four hours
فِي يَوْمٍ مِنَ الْأَيَّامِ ― fī yawmin mina l-ʔayyāmi ― once ( in the past ) , once upon a time
( singular only ) Judgment Day
609–632 CE , Qur'an , 76:7 :يُوفُونَ بِالنَّذْرِ وَيَخَافُونَ يَوْمًا كَانَ شَرُّهُ مُسْتَطِيرًا yūfūna bi-n-naḏri wayaḵāfūna yawman kāna šarruhu mustaṭīran (please add an English translation of this quotation)
( uncommon , Classical Arabic ) (day of) battle
Declension
Declension of noun يَوْم (yawm )
Hypernyms
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Egyptian Arabic: يوم ( yōm )
Gulf Arabic: يوم ( yōm )
Hijazi Arabic: يوم ( yōm )
Maltese: jum
Moroccan Arabic: يوم ( yūm )
→ Ottoman Turkish: یوم ( yevm )
→ Persian: یوم ( yowm )
Conjunction
يَوْمَ • (yawma )
at the day when
609–632 CE , Qur'an , 79:46 :كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا لَمْ يَلْبَثُوا إِلَّا عَشِيَّةً أَوْ ضُحَاهَا kaʔannahum yawma yarawnahā lam yalbaṯū ʔillā ʕašiyyatan ʔaw ḍuḥāhā It will be, on the Day they see it, as though they had not remained except for an afternoon or a morning thereof.
See also
References
Wehr, Hans (1979 ) “يوم ”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic , 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
Egyptian Arabic
Etymology
From Arabic يَوْم ( yawm ) .
Noun
يوم • (yūm ) m (dual يومين ( yūmēn ) , plural أيام ( ayyām ) , paucal تيام ( tiyām ) )
day
Coordinate terms
ليلة ( līla , “ night ” )
نهار ( nahār , “ daytime ” )
ليل ( līl , “ nighttime ” )
Gulf Arabic
Etymology
From Arabic يَوْم ( yawm ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
يوم • (yōm ) m (dual يومين ( yōmēn ) , plural ايام ( ayyām ) )
day
ما بتروحون معرض يوم البحار؟ Are you not going to the Sailor Day fair?
اليوم مو يومي ― il-yōm mū yōmi ― Today is not my day
( usually in the plural ) time , era , age
ايام الغزو the time of the invasion
Derived terms
Hijazi Arabic
Etymology
From Arabic يَوْم ( yawm ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
يوم • (yōm ) m (dual يومين ( yōmēn ) , plural أَيَّام ( ʔayyām ) )
day
See also
(units of time ) وحدات الوقت ( wiḥdāt al-wagt ) ; سنة ( sana , “ year ” ) , شهر ( šahar , “ month ” ) , أسبوع ( ʔusbūʕ , “ week ” ) , يوم ( yōm , “ day ” ) , ساعة ( sāʕa , “ hour ” ) , دقيقة ( dagīga , “ minute ” ) , ثانية ( ṯānya , “ second ” ) , لحظة ( laḥẓa , “ moment ” )
Malay
Etymology
From Arabic يَوْم ( yawm ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
يوم (Rumi spelling yaum , plural يوم -يوم or يوم ۲ , informal 1st possessive يومکو , 2nd possessive يوممو , 3rd possessive يومڽ )
day ( period of 24 hours )
day ( period from midnight to the following midnight )
day ( rotational period of a planet )
day ( part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc. )
Synonyms
Moroccan Arabic
Etymology
From Arabic يَوْم ( yawm ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
يوم • (yūm ) m (dual يومين ( yūmayn ) , plural إيام ( ʔiyyām ) or إيامات ( ʔiyyāmāt ) )
day
Synonym: نهار ( nhār )
Antonym: ليل ( līl )
( usually in the plural ) time , era , age
Derived terms
North Levantine Arabic
Etymology
From Arabic يَوْم ( yawm ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
يوم • (yōm ) m or f (plural ايام ( ʾiyyām ) )
day
Usage notes
Despite appearing masculine, the word is often feminine when definite . For example, it can be used with a feminine determiner like هديك اليوم ( hadīk l-yōm , “ that day ” ) instead of a masculine one like هيداك اليوم ( haydāk l-yom , “ that day ” ) , and it can appear as يومتـ ( yawmit-, yōmit- ) in the construct state .
Pashto
Pronunciation
Noun
يوم • (yûm ) m
spade
Declension
declension of يوم
singular
plural
direct
يوم (yûm)
يومونه (yûmuna)
oblique
يوم (yûm)
يومونو (yûmuno)
vocative
يومه (yûma)
يومونو (yûmuno)
South Levantine Arabic
Etymology
From Arabic يَوْم ( yawm ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
يوم • (yōm ) m (plural أيّام ( ʔayyām ) )
day
Antonym: ليلة ( lēle )
Derived terms
See also
نهار ( nhār , “ daytime ” )
ليل ( lēl , “ nighttime ” )
(units of time ) وحدات الوقت ( waḥdāt il-waʔt ) ; سنة ( sane , “ year ” ) , شهر ( šahr , “ month ” ) , أسبوع ( ʔusbūʕ , “ week ” ) , يوم ( yōm , “ day ” ) , ساعة ( sāʕa , “ hour ” ) , دقيقة ( daʔīʔa , “ minute ” ) , ثانية ( ṯānye , “ second ” ) , لحظة ( laḥẓa , “ moment ” )