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حُمَّى
fever /ˈħum.maː/
nounB2#3174 most common
Also: high temperature, frenzy (figurative, as in a craze)
Example sentences
عِنْدِي حُمَّى.
I have a fever.
ابْنِي عِنْدَهُ حُمَّى وَيَحْتَاجُ إِلَى دَوَاءٍ.
My son has a fever and needs medicine.
أَصَابَتْهُ الحُمَّى بَعْدَ رِحْلَتِهِ إِلَى إِفْرِيقِيَا.
Fever struck him after his trip to Africa.
تَرْتَفِعُ دَرَجَةُ حَرَارَةِ الجِسْمِ عِنْدَ الإِصَابَةِ بِالحُمَّى.
The body's temperature rises when someone comes down with a fever.
انْتَشَرَتْ حُمَّى الذَّهَبِ بَيْنَ الْمُنَقِّبِينَ فِي القَرْنِ التَّاسِعَ عَشَرَ.
Gold fever spread among prospectors in the nineteenth century.
يُعَرِّفُ الأَطِبَّاءُ الحُمَّى بِأَنَّهَا اسْتِجَابَةٌ مَنَاعِيَّةٌ طَبِيعِيَّةٌ تَهْدِفُ إِلَى مُكَافَحَةِ مُسَبِّبَاتِ العَدْوَى فِي الجِسْمِ.
Doctors define fever as a natural immune response aimed at fighting the causes of infection in the body.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | حُمَّى | حُمَّياتٌ |
| Genitive | حُمَّى | حُمَّياتٍ |
| Accusative | حُمَّى | حُمَّياتٍ |
| Vocative | يا حُمَّى | يا حُمَّياتٍ |
Word family
مَحْمُومfeverish; frenzied
حَمَّامbathhouse, bathroom
حَمِيمintimate, close; also scalding waterاِسْتَحَمَّto bathe
Etymology
حُمَّى comes from the Semitic root ḥ-m-m, whose core sense is heat or being hot. Arabic builds it on the fiʿlā pattern, which often forms feminine abstract or state nouns, so the word literally suggests a state of heat in the body. The same root gives Arabic words for bathhouses and warm intimacy, all tied to the idea of heat.
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