يوم

From the root ي و م (y-w-m). From Proto-Semitic *yawm-.

• IPA^(key): /jawm/

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يَوْم • (yawm) m (plural أَيَّام (ʔayyām))

1. day, period from sunrise to sunset

   Antonym: لَيْلَة (layla)

   أَذْهَبُ إِلَى ٱلْمَدْرَسَةِ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ.

   ʔaḏhabu ʔilā l-madrasati kulla yawmin.

   I go to school every day.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 69:7:

     سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَانِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًا فَتَرَى الْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَى كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍ

     saḵḵarahā ʕalayhim sabʕa layālin wa-ṯamāniyata ʔayyāmin ḥusūman fa-tarā l-qawma fīhā ṣarʕā kaʔannahum ʔaʕjāzu naḵlin ḵāwiyatin

     Which Allah imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.

2. day, period of twenty-four hours

   فِي يَوْمٍ مِنَ الْأَيَّامِ ― fī yawmin mina l-ʔayyāmi ― once (in the past), once upon a time

3. (singular only) Judgement Day
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 76:7:

     يُوفُونَ بِالنَّذْرِ وَيَخَافُونَ يَوْمًا كَانَ شَرُّهُ مُسْتَطِيرًا

     yūfūna bi-n-naḏri wayaḵāfūna yawman kāna šarruhu mustaṭīran

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. (uncommon, Classical Arabic) (day of) battle

• Egyptian Arabic: يوم (yōm)
• Gulf Arabic: يوم (yōm)
• Hijazi Arabic: يوم (yōm)
• Maltese: jum
• Moroccan Arabic: يوم (yūm)
• → Ottoman Turkish: یوم (yevm)
  • Turkish: yevm
• → Persian: یوم (yowm)
  • → Urdu: یوم (yaum)
  • → Hindi: यौम (yaum), इय्याम (iyyām)

يَوْمَ • (yawma)

1. at the day when
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 79:46:

     كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا لَمْ يَلْبَثُوا إِلَّا عَشِيَّةً أَوْ ضُحَاهَا

     kaʔannahum yawma yarawnahā lam yalbaṯū ʔillā ʕašiyyatan ʔaw ḍuḥāhā

     It will be, on the Day they see it, as though they had not remained except for an afternoon or a morning thereof.

• يَاوَمَ (yāwama)

• نَهَار (nahār)
• لَيْل (layl)

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “يوم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

From Arabic يَوْم (yawm).

يوم • (yūm) m (dual يومين (yūmēn), plural أيام (ayyām), paucal تيام (tiyām))

1. day

• ليلة (līla, “night”)
• نهار (nahār, “daytime”)
• ليل (līl, “nighttime”)

From Arabic يَوْم (yawm).

• (Kuwait) IPA^(key): /joːm/

يوم • (yōm) m (dual يومين (yōmēn), plural ايام (ayyām))

1. day

   ما بتروحون معرض يوم البحار؟

   Are you not going to the Sailor Day fair?

   اليوم مو يومي ― il-yōm mū yōmi ― Today is not my day

2. (usually in the plural) time, era, age

   ايام الغزو

   the time of the invasion

   ايام الشاه

   the Shah era

• اليوم (il-yōm, “today”)

From Arabic يَوْم (yawm).

• IPA^(key): /joːm/, [jo̞ːm]

يوم • (yōm) m (dual يومين (yōmēn), plural أَيَّام (ʔayyām))

1. day

From Arabic يَوْم (yawm).

• IPA^(key): [jaom]
• Rhymes: -aom, -om

يوم (Rumi spelling yaum, plural يوم-يوم or يوم۲, informal 1st possessive يومکو, 2nd possessive يوممو, 3rd possessive يومڽ)

1. day (period of 24 hours)
2. day (period from midnight to the following midnight)
3. day (rotational period of a planet)
4. day (part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.)

• هاري (hari)

From Arabic يَوْم (yawm).

• IPA^(key): /juːm/

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يوم • (yūm) m (dual يومين (yūmayn), plural إيام (ʔiyyām) or إيامات (ʔiyyāmāt))

1. day

   Synonym: نهار (nhār)

   Antonym: ليل (līl)

2. (usually in the plural) time, era, age

• اليوم (el-yūma, “today”)

From Arabic يَوْم (yawm).

• IPA^(key): /jawm/
• IPA^(key): /joːm/

يوم • (yōm) m or f (plural ايام (ʾiyyām))

1. day

• Despite appearing masculine, the word is often feminine when definite. For example, it can be used with a feminine determiner like هديك اليوم (hadīk l-yōm, “that day”) instead of a masculine one like هيداك اليوم (haydāk l-yom, “that day”), and it can appear as يومتـ (yawmit-, yōmit-) in the construct state.

• IPA^(key): /jum/

يوم • (yûm) m

1. spade

From Arabic يَوْم (yawm).

• IPA^(key): /joːm/, [joːm]

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يوم • (yōm) m (plural أيّام (ʔayyām))

1. day

   Antonym: ليلة (lēle)

• اليوم (il-yōm, “today”)

• نهار (nhār, “daytime”)
• ليل (lēl, “nighttime”)
• (units of time) وحدات الوقت (waḥdāt il-waʔt); سنة (sane, “year”), شهر (šahr, “month”), أسبوع (ʔusbūʕ, “week”), يوم (yōm, “day”), ساعة (sāʕa, “hour”), دقيقة (daʔīʔa, “minute”), ثانية (ṯānye, “second”), لحظة (laḥẓa, “moment”)