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دَوْم
doum palm /ˈdawm/
nounA2#862 most common
Also: gingerbread tree, doum fruit, doum juice
Example sentences
هٰذِهِ شَجَرَةُ دَوْمٍ.
This is a doum tree.
أُحِبُّ عَصِيرَ الدَّوْمِ كَثِيرًا.
I really like doum juice.
يَنْمُو الدَّوْمُ عَلَى ضِفَافِ النِّيلِ فِي مِصْرَ وَالسُّودَانِ.
The doum palm grows on the banks of the Nile in Egypt and Sudan.
اِشْتَرَيْتُ كِيلُو مِنْ ثَمَرِ الدَّوْمِ لِأُحَضِّرَ مِنْهُ مَشْرُوبًا بَارِدًا.
I bought a kilo of doum fruit to make a cold drink from it.
يُقَالُ إِنَّ مَشْرُوبَ الدَّوْمِ يُسَاعِدُ عَلَى خَفْضِ ضَغْطِ الدَّمِ، وَإِنْ لَمْ يَثْبُتْ ذٰلِكَ عِلْمِيًّا بِشَكْلٍ قَاطِعٍ.
Doum drink is said to help lower blood pressure, though this has not been conclusively proven scientifically.
يَتَمَيَّزُ الدَّوْمُ عَنْ سَائِرِ النَّخِيلِ بِأَنَّ جِذْعَهُ يَتَشَعَّبُ، وَهِيَ ظَاهِرَةٌ نَادِرَةٌ فِي الفَصِيلَةِ النَّخِيلِيَّةِ عُرِفَتْ مُنْذُ عَهْدِ الفَرَاعِنَةِ.
The doum palm is distinguished from other palms by its branching trunk, a rare phenomenon in the palm family known since the time of the Pharaohs.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | دَوْمٌ | دَوْماتٌ |
| Genitive | دَوْمٍ | دَوْماتٍ |
| Accusative | دَوْماً | دَوْماتٍ |
| Vocative | يا دَوْمُ | يا دَوْماتُ |
Word family
دَوْمةa single doum tree or fruit
عَصِير الدَّوْمdoum juice, a cold drink made from the fruit
دامَto last, to endure (same consonants; link to the palm uncertain)
دَوامcontinuance, durationEtymology
دَوْم names the doum palm, Hyphaene thebaica, a tree of the Nile valley and the Sahel. Classical Arabic dictionaries record دَوْم as a desert tree bearing hard, round fruit. The word is a collective noun, and a single tree or fruit is دَوْمة. Its older history is uncertain, and any link to the root د و م meaning 'to last' is not established.
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