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Also written حلم: حُلْم (vision) · حَلُمَ (to act or think like an adult)
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Most common words from the same root
حَلَمَ in English
Verb · Form I
- to dream (something) or about [with بِ (bi)] (something) while asleep intransitive, transitive
- to muse, reflect, or meditate on [with بِ (bi)]; to vision, to image intransitive, transitive
- to experience the first seminal ejaculation
- to mature physically or sexually; to attain puberty intransitive
- to become a legal adult or to be perceived as such archaic, intransitive
Word origin
Akin to Aramaic חֶלְמָא (ḥelmā), Classical Syriac ܚܠܡܐ (ḥelmā), Hebrew חֲלוֹם (ḥalóm), Amharic ሕልም (ḥəlm), Ugaritic 𐎈𐎍𐎎 (ḥlm). For the significations of the root in Arabic, compare م ن ي (m n y), whence أُمْنِيَة (ʔumniya, “a wish”) and مَنِيّ (maniyy, “a fluid considered conceptive; semen”).
Words from the root ح-ل-م
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حَلَمَ
· present يَحْلُمُ
Form I · The plain action
to dream (something) or about [with بِ (bi)] (something) while asleep; to experience the first seminal ejaculation
حُلُم
sexual maturity
حَالِم
dreamer
مَحْلُوم
حَلُمَ
· present يَحْلُمُ
Form I · The plain action
to mature mentally or to be perceived as such; to act or think like an adult; to be gentle, forgiving, merciful, or lenient; to be mild-mannered; to restrain oneself or to be restrained or checked (especially emotionally and psychologically); to forbear, to refrain, to abstain, to withhold; to be long-suffering, to be patient or enduring; to mellow
حِلْم
mental
حَلِيم
patient
اِحْتَلَمَ
· present يَحْتَلِمُ
Form VIII · Reflexive, often idiomatic
to have a nocturnal emission; to reach sexual maturity
اِحْتِلَام
nocturnal emission
مُحْتَلِم
sexually mature
حَلَمَة
singulative of حَلَم
حَلَم
tick
حُلَيْمَة
papilla
حَلَمَ conjugation
Active voice. Present, subjunctive and jussive are the three moods of the non-past.
| Pronoun | Past | Present | Subjunctive | Jussive | Imperative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| أَنَا I | حَلَمْتُ | أَحْلُمُ | أَحْلُمَ | أَحْلُمْ | — |
| أَنْتَ you (m.) | حَلَمْتَ | تَحْلُمُ | تَحْلُمَ | تَحْلُمْ | اُحْلُمْ |
| أَنْتِ you (f.) | حَلَمْتِ | تَحْلُمِينَ | تَحْلُمِي | تَحْلُمِي | اُحْلُمِي |
| هُوَ he | حَلَمَ | يَحْلُمُ | يَحْلُمَ | يَحْلُمْ | — |
| هِيَ she | حَلَمَتْ | تَحْلُمُ | تَحْلُمَ | تَحْلُمْ | — |
| أَنْتُمَا you two | حَلَمْتُمَا | تَحْلُمَانِ | تَحْلُمَا | تَحْلُمَا | اُحْلُمَا |
| هُمَا they two (m.) | حَلَمَا | يَحْلُمَانِ | يَحْلُمَا | يَحْلُمَا | — |
| هُمَا they two (f.) | حَلَمَتَا | تَحْلُمَانِ | تَحْلُمَا | تَحْلُمَا | — |
| نَحْنُ we | حَلَمْنَا | نَحْلُمُ | نَحْلُمَ | نَحْلُمْ | — |
| أَنْتُمْ you all (m.) | حَلَمْتُمْ | تَحْلُمُونَ | تَحْلُمُوا | تَحْلُمُوا | اُحْلُمُوا |
| أَنْتُنَّ you all (f.) | حَلَمْتُنَّ | تَحْلُمْنَ | تَحْلُمْنَ | تَحْلُمْنَ | اُحْلُمْنَ |
| هُمْ they (m.) | حَلَمُوا | يَحْلُمُونَ | يَحْلُمُوا | يَحْلُمُوا | — |
| هُنَّ they (f.) | حَلَمْنَ | يَحْلُمْنَ | يَحْلُمْنَ | يَحْلُمْنَ | — |
| Verbal noun | حُلْم، حُلُم |
|---|---|
| Active participle | حَالِم |
| Passive participle | مَحْلُوم |
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