sawm
sawm noun: fasting, abstention, abstinence; the third of the five pillars of Islam.
Noun
sawm (uncountable)
- Fasting, abstention, abstinence; the third of the five pillars of Islam.
sawm meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
sawm in Hindi
- Islamic fasting
- रोज़ा rozā
sawm in Marathi
- Islamic fasting
- रोजा rojā
sawm in Urdu
- Islamic fasting
- روزہ roza
sawm in Bengali
- Islamic fasting
- রোজা rōja
More languagesFewer languages
- sawm in Malayalam
- വ്രതം vrataṁ
- sawm in Gujarati
- રોજો rojo
- sawm in Odia
- ରୋଜା rojā
- sawm in Sinhala
- සව්ම් sawm
- sawm in Pashto
- روژه
- sawm in Tagalog
- saum
- sawm in Arabic
- صَوْم ṣawm, صِيَام ṣiyām
- sawm in Malay
- puasa
- sawm in Indonesian
- puasa, saum
- sawm in Persian
- روزه roza
- sawm in Thai
- ศีลอด sǐin-òt
- Dhivehi
- ރޯދަ rōda
Forms of sawm
| alternative form | saum |
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Origin of sawm
From Arabic صَوْم (ṣawm, “fasting; abstaining from food, drink, and sex”), probably borrowed from Classical Syriac ܨܘܡܐ (ṣawmāʾ).
Questions about sawm
- What does sawm mean?
- Sawm means fasting, abstention, abstinence; the third of the five pillars of Islam.
- What is sawm in Hindi?
- Sawm in Hindi is रोज़ा (rozā). See Sawm meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is sawm?
- Sawm is a noun.
Words near sawm in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sawm (page history and authors); રોજો (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ରୋଜା (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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