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أَلَم
pain /ˈʔa.lam/
nounA1#333 most common
Also: ache, suffering, agony
Example sentences
عِنْدِي أَلَم فِي رَأْسِي.
I have a pain in my head.
أَشْعُرُ بِأَلَمٍ فِي ظَهْرِي.
I feel a pain in my back.
اِخْتَفَى الأَلَمُ بَعْدَ الدَّوَاءِ.
The pain went away after the medicine.
لا يَفْهَمُ أَحَدٌ أَلَمَ الفِرَاقِ إِلَّا مَنْ جَرَّبَهُ.
No one understands the pain of separation except those who have lived it.
حَمَلَ فِي قَلْبِهِ أَلَمًا دَفِينًا لَمْ يَبُحْ بِهِ لِأَحَدٍ.
He carried a buried pain in his heart that he confided to no one.
إِنَّ آلَامَ الشُّعُوبِ المَقْهُورَةِ تَتَجَاوَزُ الجِرَاحَ الجَسَدِيَّةَ إِلَى جُرْحٍ فِي الكَرَامَةِ.
The pains of oppressed peoples reach past physical wounds to a wound in their dignity.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | أَلَمٌ | آلامٌ |
| Genitive | أَلَمٍ | آلامٍ |
| Accusative | أَلَمًا | آلامًا |
| Vocative | يا أَلَمُ | يا آلامُ |
Word family
Etymology
أَلَم comes from the Semitic triliteral root ʾ-l-m, which carries the sense of pain and ache. The matching verb أَلِمَ means to feel pain. The same root yields the adjective أَلِيم, painful, a word that recurs in the Qur'an to describe punishment.
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