سَمَاء

سَمَاء in English

Noun · feminine

1. the sky/skies; the heaven(s) (figurative, simile), space, the sphere(s), the cosmos(es), the lift(s).
   1. the produce of the sky (such as clouds, nimbuses, or rain) uncountable
      فَقُلْتُ ٱسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ إِنَّهُ كَانَ غَفَّارًا يُّرْسِلِ ٱلسَّمَاءَ عَلَيْكُمْ مِّدْرَارًا وَّيُمْدِدْكُمْ بِأَمْوَالٍ وَّبَنِينَ وَيَجْعَلْ لَّكُمْ جَنَّاتٍ وَّيَجْعَلْ لَّكُمْ أَنْهَارًاSo I said, "Ask your Lord for forgiveness! He surely is forgiving. He shall send unto you profusely the produce of the sky. And He shall enrich you with wealth and children and make for you gardens and make for you rivers."609–632 CE, Qur'an, 71:11
   2. outer space (when observed from earth), the upper regions, the multiverses, the universe, the cosmos(es), the heavens (figurative, simile) uncountable
      تَبَارَكَ ٱلَّذِي جَعَلَ فِي ٱلسَّمَاءِ بُرُوجًا وَّجَعَلَ فِيهَا سِرَٰجًا وَّقَمَرًا مُّنِيرًاBlessed is He Who made asterisms in the heavens and [also] made therein a lamp and a luminous moon.609–632 CE, Qur'an, 25:61
   3. the abode of God traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; Heaven, the empyrean archaic, figurative, obsolete, poetic, rare, uncountable
      ءَأَمِنْتُمْ مَّنْ فِي ٱلسَّمَاءِ أَنْ يَّخْسِفَ بِكُمُ ٱلْأَرْضَ فَإِذَا هِيَ تَمُورُAre you [so] certain that He Who is in Heaven will cause not the earth, when it would be swaying in tumult, to swallow you up?609–632 CE, Qur'an, 67:16
      وَلَٰكِنْ بَعْدَ أَنْ أَسْخَطَ آبَاؤُنَا إِلَٰهَ ٱلسَّمَاءِ […]But after our fathers made the god of Heaven angry […]1865 CE, Bible (SVD), Book of Ezra, 5:12
   4. airspace, the aether uncountable
   5. the celestial sphere(s) uncountable
   6. the atmosphere(s) uncountable
   7. the stratosphere uncountable
2. a high covering; ceiling, vault, canopy
   1. anything which resembles a vault, particularly the sky; the firmament, the vault of heaven, the welkin figurative, uncountable
      وَيُمْسِكُ ٱلسَّمَاءَ أَنْ تَقَعَ عَلَىٰ ٱلْأَرْضِ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِهِAnd He holds up the firmament lest it fall upon the earth but by His leave.609–632 CE, Qur'an, 22:65
3. Arabian horse’s back. Classical Arabic, archaic
4. mountaintop, summit. Classical Arabic, archaic
5. rainy grass Classical Arabic, archaic

Word origin

Inherited from Proto-Semitic *šamāy-.

Words from the root س-م-و

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سَمَاء: plural and other forms

سَمَاء in a sentence

Dictionary examples

the produce of the sky

outer space

the abode of God traditionally conceived as beyond the sky

the abode of God traditionally conceived as beyond the sky

anything which resembles a vault

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