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صامِت
silent /ˈsˤaː.mɪt/
adjectiveB1#2517 most common
Also: mute, consonant (phonetics)
Example sentences
الولد صامت في الصف.
The boy is silent in class.
أرجوك كن صامتًا في المكتبة.
Please be silent in the library.
ضع هاتفك على الوضع الصامت أثناء الاجتماع.
Put your phone on silent mode during the meeting.
شاهدنا فيلمًا صامتًا بالأبيض والأسود من عشرينيات القرن الماضي.
We watched a silent black-and-white film from the 1920s.
الباء والتاء حرفان صامتان في اللغة العربية.
Ba and ta are two consonants in Arabic.
يُصنَّف الصامت في العربية إلى مجهور ومهموس بحسب اهتزاز الأوتار الصوتية أثناء النطق به.
In Arabic, a consonant is classified as voiced or voiceless according to whether the vocal cords vibrate when it is pronounced.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | صامتٌ | صامتون |
| Genitive | صامتٍ | صامتين |
| Accusative | صامتًا | صامتين |
| Vocative | يا صامتُ | يا صامتون |
Word family
صَمَتَto fall silent, to be quiet
صَمْتsilenceصمّتto silence, to put on mute
مُصْمِتsolid, compact, not hollow
صوامتconsonants (plural, phonetics)
Etymology
صامت is the active participle of the verb صَمَتَ, which means to fall silent or hold one's tongue. It is built on the triliteral Semitic root ص-م-ت, whose core sense is stopping speech or sound. Related forms such as صَمْت (silence) and صمّت (to mute) share the same root. As a Semitic root it has no Proto-Indo-European ancestor, and modern Arabic has extended صامت into phonetics, where it names a consonant, the sound that interrupts the flow of a vowel.
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