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صَمَد
to stand firm, hold out (against pressure or attack) /sˤɑˈmadɑ/
verbB1#2994 most common
Also: to endure, persist, to withstand, resist, to be steadfast
Example sentences
صَمَدَ الجُنْدِيُّ.
The soldier stood firm.
صَمَدَ الفَريقُ أَمامَ الهُجومِ.
The team held firm against the attack.
صَمَدَتِ المَدينَةُ أَمامَ الحِصارِ الطَّويلِ.
The city withstood the long siege.
رَغْمَ الضُّغوطِ الِاقْتِصادِيَّةِ، صَمَدَتِ الشَّرِكَةُ وَلَمْ تُفْلِسْ.
Despite the economic pressures, the company held on and did not go bankrupt.
صَمَدَ الجِسْرُ القَديمُ أَمامَ الزَّلازِلِ الَّتي ضَرَبَتِ المِنْطَقَةَ لِعُقودٍ.
The old bridge withstood the earthquakes that struck the region for decades.
لَوْلا إيمانُهُمُ الرَّاسِخُ، لَما صَمَدوا أَمامَ كُلِّ تِلْكَ المِحَنِ الَّتي تَعاقَبَتْ عَلَيْهِمْ.
Had it not been for their firm faith, they would not have endured all those successive trials.
Conjugation
| Present Active | Simple Past Active | Simple Future Active | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | أَصْمُدُ | صَمَدْتُ | سَأَصْمُدُ |
| 2sg | تَصْمُدُ | صَمَدْتَ | سَتَصْمُدُ |
| 3sg | يَصْمُدُ | صَمَدَ | سَيَصْمُدُ |
| 1pl | نَصْمُدُ | صَمَدْنا | سَنَصْمُدُ |
| 2pl | تَصْمُدونَ | صَمَدْتُمْ | سَتَصْمُدونَ |
| 3pl | يَصْمُدونَ | صَمَدوا | سَيَصْمُدونَ |
Word family
صُمودsteadfastness, endurance
صامِدsteadfast, resilient, holding firm
الصَّمَدthe Eternal, the Self-Sufficient (a name of God in Islam)
صَمْدverbal noun: the act of standing firm
Etymology
صَمَد comes from the Semitic root ص-م-د (ṣ-m-d), whose core sense is standing firm, holding fast, or being solid and unyielding. Classical dictionaries also record an early sense of deliberately turning toward or aiming for something, and from this the divine name الصَّمَد, the Eternal One to whom all creatures turn, later developed. The root is native to Arabic, and no established Indo-European cognates exist for it.
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