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حُلْم

vision

NounRoot ح-ل-م

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Also written حلم: حَلَمَ (to dream or about [with بِ ]…) · حَلُمَ (to act or think like an adult)

Highlights

Plural
أَحْلَام
Verbal noun of
حَلَمَ
to dream or about [with بِ ] while asle…

Most common words from the same root

Verb · Form I
حَلَمَ
to dream or about [with بِ ] while asleep
Verb · Form I
حَلُمَ
to act or think like an adult
Noun
حَلَمَة
singulative of حَلَم
Noun
حَلَم
tick

حُلْم in English

Noun

Verbal noun of حَلَمَ (to dream or about [with بِ ] while asleep): the act or idea of the verb.

  1. a dream (something experienced during sleep); vision
  2. a wish, a desire, an aspiration; a daydream (something fantasised about or desired)
  3. utopia

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

Arabic verbs come in forms; each form's nouns are listed under its verb. See the whole root on one page →

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

حُلْم
Verbal noun
vision
حُلُم
Verbal noun
sexual maturity
حَالِم
Active participle
dreamer
مَحْلُوم
Passive participle
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
Verbal noun
mental
حَلِيم
Active participle · Adjective
patient
اِحْتَلَمَ · present يَحْتَلِمُ
Form VIII · Reflexive, often idiomatic

to have a nocturnal emission; to reach sexual maturity

اِحْتِلَام
Verbal noun
nocturnal emission
مُحْتَلِم
Active participle · Adjective
sexually mature
حَلَمَة
Noun · f.
singulative of حَلَم
حَلَم
Noun · m.
tick
حُلَيْمَة
Noun · f.
papilla

حُلْم: plural and other forms

Singularحُلْم
Pluralأَحْلَام

حُلْم in a sentence

From a fully vowelled text

فَلَمَّا مَاتَ هِيرُودُسُ، إِذَا مَلاَكُ الرَّبِّ قَدْ ظَهَرَ فِي حُلْمٍ لِيُوسُفَ فِي مِصْرَBut when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,Matthew 2:19, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV
فِي حُلْمٍ فِي رُؤْيَا اللَّيْلِ، عِنْدَ سُقُوطِ سَبَاتٍ عَلَى النَّاسِ، فِي النُّعَاسِ عَلَى الْمَضْجَعِ.In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;Job 33:15, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV
فَقَالَ يُوسُفُ لِفِرْعَوْنَ: «حُلْمُ فِرْعَوْنَ وَاحِدٌ. قَدْ أَخْبَرَ اللهُ فِرْعَوْنَ بِمَا هُوَ صَانِعٌ.And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.Genesis 41:25, Smith & Van Dyke (1865) / KJV

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