صحة

See also: صحت‎

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ص ح ح‎ (ṣ-ḥ-ḥ).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sˤiħ.ħa/
  • Audio - nominative, indefinite - صِحَّةٌ (ṣiḥḥatun)(file)

Noun

صِحَّة • (ṣiḥḥa) f

  1. health
    ‏ الصِّحَّةُ تَاجٌ عَلَى رُؤُوسِ الْأَصِحَّاءِ لَا يَرَاهُ إِلَّا الْمَرْضَى.‎‎
    aṣ-ṣiḥḥatu tājun ʕalā ruʔūsi l-ʔaṣiḥḥāʔi lā yarāhu ʔillā l-marḍā.
    Health is a crown on the heads of the healthy, that only the ill can see.
  2. fitness (cultivation of an attractive and healthy physique)
  3. soundness, wholeness, correctness
  4. completeness
  5. good condition
  6. validity
  7. God bless you!, bless you! (exclamation said when someone sneezes)

Declension
Declension of noun صِحَّة (ṣiḥḥa)
Singular singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal صِحَّة
ṣiḥḥa		 الصِّحَّة‎
aṣ-ṣiḥḥa		 صِحَّة
ṣiḥḥat
Nominative صِحَّةٌ
ṣiḥḥatun		 الصِّحَّةُ‎
aṣ-ṣiḥḥatu		 صِحَّةُ
ṣiḥḥatu
Accusative صِحَّةً
ṣiḥḥatan		 الصِّحَّةَ‎
aṣ-ṣiḥḥata		 صِحَّةَ
ṣiḥḥata
Genitive صِحَّةٍ
ṣiḥḥatin		 الصِّحَّةِ‎
aṣ-ṣiḥḥati		 صِحَّةِ
ṣiḥḥati

Descendants
  • → Indonesian: sehat
  • → Malay: sihat
  • → Persian: صحت‎ (sehhat)

References
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “صحة”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), “صح”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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