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جَحِيم
hellfire /d͡ʒaˈħiːm/
nounA1#290 most common
Also: hell, inferno, blazing fire
Example sentences
هٰذَا جَحِيمٌ.
This is hell.
الجَوُّ اليَوْمَ حارٌّ كَالجَحِيمِ.
The weather today is hot as hell.
يُؤْمِنُ المُسْلِمونَ بِالجَنَّةِ وَالجَحِيمِ.
Muslims believe in Paradise and Hell.
حَذَّرَ الخَطيبُ النّاسَ مِنْ عَذابِ الجَحِيمِ.
The preacher warned the people about the torment of Hell.
تَحَوَّلَتْ حَياتُهُ إِلى جَحيمٍ لا يُطاقُ بَعْدَ أَنْ خَسِرَ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ.
His life turned into an unbearable hell after he lost everything.
صَوَّرَ الشّاعِرُ ساحَةَ المَعْرَكَةِ جَحيمًا تَتَلَظّى نيرانُهُ، لا يَنْجو مِنْهُ أَحَدٌ.
The poet depicted the battlefield as a blazing inferno whose fires raged, with no one escaping it.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | جَحِيمٌ | n/a |
| Genitive | جَحِيمٍ | n/a |
| Accusative | جَحِيمًا | n/a |
| Vocative | يا جَحِيمُ | n/a |
Word family
جَاحِم (jāḥim)blazing, fiercely burning
جَحَمَ (jaḥama)to blaze, burn fiercely
جَحْمَة (jaḥmah)a blaze, fierce fire
جَحِيمِيّ (jaḥīmī)hellish, infernal
Etymology
The word comes from the Arabic root ج ح م (j-ḥ-m), meaning to blaze or burn fiercely. It takes the intensive faʿīl pattern, so it names a fire that burns hard rather than a place alone. The Quran uses it as one of the names of Hell, stressing the blaze. Arabic is Semitic, so it has no Indo-European root and no verified cognate to cite.
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