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سَماء
sky /saˈmaːʔ/
nounA2#747 most common
Also: heaven, the heavens, firmament
Example sentences
السَّماءُ زَرْقاءُ.
The sky is blue.
أَنْظُرُ إِلى السَّماءِ كُلَّ صَباحٍ.
I look at the sky every morning.
غَطَّتِ الغُيومُ السَّماءَ قَبْلَ المَطَرِ.
Clouds covered the sky before the rain.
كُلَّما نَظَرْتُ إِلى السَّماءِ لَيْلاً رَأَيْتُ آلافَ النُّجومِ.
Whenever I looked at the sky at night, I saw thousands of stars.
تَحَدَّثَ الشّاعِرُ عَنِ السَّماواتِ السَّبْعِ في قَصيدَتِهِ.
The poet spoke of the seven heavens in his poem.
لا تَكادُ عَيْنُ النّاظِرِ تُحيطُ بِاتِّساعِ السَّماءِ حينَ تَصْفو وتَخْلو مِنَ الغُيومِ.
The onlooker's eye can hardly take in the vastness of the sky when it clears and empties of clouds.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | سَماءٌ | سَماواتٌ |
| Genitive | سَماءٍ | سَماواتٍ |
| Accusative | سَماءً | سَماواتٍ |
| Vocative | يا سَماءُ | يا سَماواتُ |
Word family
سَماوِيّheavenly, celestial
سَماواتheavens (plural)
سُمُوّloftiness, highness (also the royal title 'Highness')
سَماto rise, soar, be lofty
سامٍlofty, sublime, high-ranking
Etymology
سَماء comes from the Semitic root s-m-w, which carries the sense of height and elevation. The word is shared widely across the Semitic family. Hebrew שָׁמַיִם and Akkadian šamû point to a common Proto-Semitic word for the sky. It has no Indo-European source.
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