Arabic word sheet
ثَمَرَةٌ
A fruit
- Type
- noun
- Root
- ث م ر
Meaning and usage
A fruit
What a tree or a plant produces, whether it is eaten or not; the word means one single fruit.
قَطَفَتْ لَيْلَى ثَمَرَةً مِنَ الشَّجَرَةِ.
Layla picked a fruit from the tree.
Result, profit
Figuratively: what a piece of work, an effort or a thing yields, the benefit drawn from it. By an image, in literary language, it is also said of a child, produced by its parents as a tree produces its fruit.
رَأَى الْمُعَلِّمُ ثَمَرَةَ عَمَلِهِ فِي نَجَاحِ الطُّلَّابِ.
The teacher saw the fruit of his work in the students’ success.
هَذَا الطِّفْلُ ثَمَرَةُ زَوَاجٍ سَعِيدٍ.
This child is the fruit of a happy marriage.
Plural
ثَمَرَاتٌ / ثِمَارٌ
Word family
What the root means ث م ر
The root names what a tree bears, and from there anything that yields and grows. From it come “fruit”, “to bear fruit”, “fruit-bearing”, “to make wealth grow” and “bearing ripe fruit”.
fruit (collectively)
ثَمَرٌ
to bear fruit
أَثْمَرَ
fruit-bearing
مُثْمِرٌ
to make (wealth) grow
ثَمَّرَ
bearing ripe fruit
ثَامِرٌ
Synonyms
what a tree bears, its crop
حَمْلٌ
It means the whole load of fruit a tree carries, not one fruit taken by itself.
fruit for eating
فَاكِهَةٌ
It means only fruit eaten for pleasure, whereas the headword holds for anything a tree produces.
result
نَتِيجَةٌ
It means what follows from a thing, for better or worse, whereas the headword suggests a benefit reaped after effort.