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تُهْمَة

accusation /ˈtuh.ma/

nounA2#1178 most common

Also: charge, indictment, suspicion

Example sentences

هَذِهِ تُهْمَة.
This is an accusation.
وَجَّهَ لَهُ تُهْمَة.
He made an accusation against him.
أَنْكَرَ المُتَّهَمُ كُلَّ تُهْمَةٍ.
The accused denied every charge.
لَمْ تَجِدِ الشُّرْطَةُ أَيَّ دَلِيلٍ يُثْبِتُ التُّهْمَةَ.
The police found no evidence to prove the charge.
بَرَّأَتْهُ المَحْكَمَةُ مِنْ تُهْمَةِ الِاحْتِيَالِ لِعَدَمِ كِفَايَةِ الأَدِلَّةِ.
The court acquitted him of the charge of fraud for lack of sufficient evidence.
ظَلَّتِ التُّهَمُ المُوَجَّهَةُ إِلَيْهِ مُجَرَّدَ افْتِرَاءَاتٍ لَا تَسْتَنِدُ إِلَى أَسَاسٍ قَانُونِيٍّ سَلِيمٍ.
The charges leveled against him remained mere fabrications with no sound legal basis.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeتُهْمَةٌتُهَمٌ
Genitiveتُهْمَةٍتُهَمٍ
Accusativeتُهْمَةًتُهَماً
Vocativeيا تُهْمَةُيا تُهَمُ

Word family

اِتَّهَمَto accuse
اِتِّهَامaccusation, indictment
مُتَّهَمthe accused, defendant
مُتَّهِمaccuser
وَهْمillusion, delusion

Etymology

The word comes from the Arabic root w-h-m, which means to imagine or to suspect. The initial w shifted to t, producing tuhma. The sense moved from a suspicion held in the mind to a formal charge brought against a person.

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