Quranic root
صمت
ṣ · m · t
A root orientation toward silence, muteness, and closure: being shut off from speech, sound, or an opening.
The lexical development extends from silence and speechlessness to solitary or soundless things, solid or closed objects, unmixed materials, thick milk, and related idioms of purpose or completion.
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Forms in the Quran
The forms this root actually takes in the Quran. Select one to jump to its senses and examples.
صَامِتٌ
ṣāmitun
- Part of speech
- Active participle
- Quran occurrences
- 1 occurrence
Selected examples are shown with the sense they illustrate — chosen to teach that sense, not the complete list of this form’s Quran occurrences.
Silent; not speaking or remaining mute.
The Quranic occurrence is the plural predicate أَنتُمْ صَامِتُونَ, contrasted with calling the addressees; the construction denotes not speaking and does not itself require inability to speak.
- Lane · entry 26537
Selected Quran examples
Quran 7:193word 12
“remain silent”
Occurrences in the Quran
Every place this root appears, in Quran order. The first few are shown here.
- 7:193صَـٰمِتُونَremain silent
Broader Classical Arabic meanings
Recorded for this root in the Classical lexicons beyond its Quran usage. These are secondary to the Quran senses above.
Show 32 Classical meanings
صَمْتٌ
Silence functioning as tacit consent.
Especially in the conventional marriage-consent expression in which a virgin's silence counts as her permission.
- Lane · entry 26526
صَامِتٌ
Non-vocal property, especially gold and silver, contrasted with vocal livestock.
In the expression مَا لَهُ صَامِتٌ وَلَا نَاطِقٌ, صامت denotes gold or silver, while ناطق denotes camels, sheep, goats, or other animals.
- Lane · entry 26526
- Lane · entry 26537
صَمَّتَهُ
To make or render someone silent, mute, or speechless.
Causative Form II.
- Lane · entry 26527
صَمَّتَ
To quiet a child with food or a similar thing.
A specialized causative use referring to something given to stop a child's crying or quiet it.
- Lane · entry 26527
صَمَّتَ
To quiet someone by attending to his complaint or caring about his grievance.
Said of inclining sympathetically toward the person who complains, thereby quieting him.
- Lane · entry 26527
أَصْمَتَهُ
To suffice to quiet or satisfy someone.
Said specifically of food or drink that does or does not quiet the person consuming it.
- Lane · entry 26528
أَصْمَتَ
To make something solid and without a cavity.
Applied to a thing made non-hollow and consequently generally non-sonorous.
- Lane · entry 26528
أَصْمَتَ
Of land, to become altered into rugged or hard ground.
Describes land left untilled and unsown for a period and developing rugged patches.
- Lane · entry 26528
أَصْمَتَ
To become tongue-tied and cease speaking.
Reported especially of a sick person who is unable to speak.
- Lane · entry 26528
صُمْتَةٌ
Silence, muteness, or speechlessness.
A substantive corresponding to صَمْتٌ and related silence nouns.
- Lane · entry 26529
صُمْتَةٌ
A food or similar item used to quiet a child, or provision that feeds and quiets a household.
A date or another pleasing morsel may be called the child's quieting item; the term can also refer to food sufficient for a family.
- Lane · entry 26529
صَمَاتًا
Anything at all, in the idiom “I tasted nothing.”
Occurs in the negative expression مَا ذُقْتُ صَمَاتًا.
- Lane · entry 26531
صُمَاتٌ
A thing with which someone is struck or afflicted so as to be silenced.
Used in the expression رَمَاهُ بِصُمَاتِهِ, “he afflicted him with something that silenced him.”
- Lane · entry 26532
صُمَاتٌ
Thirst, or a tendency to become thirsty quickly.
Said of people and beasts.
- Lane · entry 26532
صِمَاتٌ
Purpose, intention, or the point of accomplishing an affair.
In expressions such as عَلَى صِمَاتِ الأَمْرِ, it can mean being resolved upon or close to accomplishing the matter.
- Lane · entry 26533
صِمَاتٌ
A position near people, within their sight or hearing.
Occurs in the expression بَاتَ مِنَ القَوْمِ عَلَى صِمَاتٍ.
- Lane · entry 26533
صَمُوتٌ
Soundless in use; making no noise when worn, applied, or driven into something.
Applied to quiet armor or anklets, and to a sword or blow that penetrates among the bones without recoiling to make a sound.
- Lane · entry 26534
صَمُوتٌ
Full and without an empty cell.
Applied to a honeycomb whose cells are all filled.
- Lane · entry 26534
صِمِّيتٌ
Habitually or for a long time silent or mute.
An intensive description applied to a person.
- Lane · entry 26536
صَامِتٌ
A counted group of camels, especially twenty camels or the like.
A specialized usage applied to camels.
- Lane · entry 26537
صَامِتٌ
Thick milk.
A specialized descriptive usage applied to milk.
- Lane · entry 26537
إِصْمِتَ
A deserted or waterless tract in which one has no companion or known whereabouts.
Used in the proper-name expressions وَحْشُ إِصْمِتَ and بَلْدَةُ إِصْمِتَ for a solitary desert place.
- Lane · entry 26539
مُضْمَتٌ
Made or rendered silent, mute, or speechless.
The primary adjectival/passive sense.
- Lane · entry 26541
مُضْمَتٌ
Solid, not hollow, and without a cavity.
A derived sense associated with the absence of sound from a non-hollow object.
- Lane · entry 26541
مُضْمَتٌ
Closed or locked so that its opening cannot be found.
Applied to a door, lock, or similar enclosure.
- Lane · entry 26541
مُضْمَتٌ
Uniform and unmixed, consisting of one material or one color.
Applied to a one-color garment or horse, a vessel without silver ornament, a one-piece helmet, or an ornament not intermixed with another; an ornament may also be explained as fixed fast so that it does not move.
- Lane · entry 26541
مُضْمَتٌ
A heavy sleeper.
A figurative description of the fهد.
- Lane · entry 26541
مُضْمَتٌ
Of Arabic letters, any letter outside the letters of ذلاقة.
الحروف المصمتة are defined as all letters except those comprised in مُرْ بِنَفْلٍ.
- Lane · entry 26541
مُصْمِتٌ
Tongue-tied and not speaking.
Applied especially to a sick person unable to speak.
- Lane · entry 26542
مُصَمَّتٌ
Complete or made up in full.
Used in the expression أَلْفٌ مُصَمَّتٌ, “a completed thousand.”
- Lane · entry 26543
مُصَمِّتٌ
A silencer or quieter.
A person or thing that causes another to become quiet.
- Lane · entry 26544
مُصَمِّتٌ
One who attends to another's complaint and cares for his case.
Used of a sympathetic respondent, especially in proverbial or poetic speech.
- Lane · entry 26544
Cautions
Points that affect how this root should be read.
Lane prints its Quran reference for the plural صامتون as “Kur vii. 192”; the example location here follows the independently supplied QAC occurrence 7:193:12 and does not convert Lane's historical citation directly.