Arabic word sheet
شَمْسٌ
Sun
- Type
- noun
- Root
- ش م س
Meaning and usage
Sun
The bright body of the day, which runs its course across the sky.
غَابَتِ الشَّمْسُ وَرَاءَ الْجَبَلِ.
The sun disappeared behind the mountain.
Sunshine
Also said of the place the sun lights and warms: to be, to sit, to leave something “in the sun”.
نَشَرَتْ سَلْمَى الْغَسِيلَ فِي الشَّمْسِ.
Salma hung the washing out in the sun.
Plural
شُمُوسٌ
Word family
What the root means ش م س
The root names the sun and the day it lights: from it come “to be sunny”, “sunny”, “put out in the sun”, “to sit in the sun”. It also carries the idea of a restive animal that will not stay still.
to be sunny (of a day)
شَمَسَ
to be sunny (of a day)
أَشْمَسَ
sunny
شَامِسٌ
put out in the sun, sun-made
مُشَمَّسٌ
to sit in the sun
تَشَمَّسَ
restive (mount)
شَمُوسٌ
Synonyms
sunlight on the ground
ضِحٌّ
A rare word that means only the sun’s light spread over the ground, never the body in the sky.
the sun (old name)
ذُكَاءُ
It is an old, poetic proper name of the sun, not used in everyday language.