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عدم

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See also: ع د م

Arabic

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Root
ع د م (ʕ d m)
7 terms

Etymology 1.1

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  • عَدِمَ (active): IPA(key): /ʕa.di.ma/
  • عُدِمَ (passive): IPA(key): /ʕu.di.ma/

Verb

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عَدِمَ (ʕadima) I (non-past يَعْدَمُ (yaʕdamu), verbal noun عُدْم (ʕudm) or عَدَم (ʕadam))

  1. to lack, not to have
  2. to lose, to miss
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Verb

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عُدِمَ (ʕudima) I (passive-only, non-past يُعْدَمُ (yuʕdamu), verbal noun عَدَم (ʕadam) or عُدْم (ʕudm))

  1. not to exist
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Etymology 1.2

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Noun

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عَدَم (ʕadamm (plural أَعْدَام (ʔaʕdām))

  1. verbal noun of عَدِمَ (ʕadima) (form I)
  2. non-existence, nothingness
  3. nothing
  4. lack, absence
  5. non-, un-, in-, dis- (with following genitive)
  6. nonentity
Declension
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Descendants
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  • Ottoman Turkish: عدم

Etymology 1.3

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Noun

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عُدْم (ʕudmm

  1. verbal noun of عَدِمَ (ʕadima) (form I)
  2. lack
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Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic عَدَم (ʕadam).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? aḏam
Dari reading? adam
Iranian reading? adam
Tajik reading? adam

Noun

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عدم (adam)

  1. nonexistence
    Antonym: وجود (vojud)
    • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3790:
      رخت خود را من ز ره برداشتم
      غیر حق را من عدم انگاشتم
      raxt-i xwad rā man zi rah bardāštam
      ğayr-i haqq rā man adam angāštam
      I have removed the baggage of self out of the way,
      I have deemed [what is] other than God to be non-existence.
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 170:
      نی زنده‌ام از هجر تو ای شوخ نه مرده
      فریاد از این نوع وجود عدم آلود
      nē zinda'am az hajr-i tō ay šōx na murda
      faryād az īn naw'-i wujūd-i adam ālūd
      Due to parting from you, o mischievous one, I am neither alive nor dead;
      I bemoan this kind of existence tainted with nonexistence!
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. (with ezâfe) absence (of), non-

Further reading

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  • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “عدم”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

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Etymology

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From Arabic عَدَم (ʕadam).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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عَدَم ('adamm (Hindi spelling अदम)

  1. nonexistence, negation, nonentity, nothingness, void
  2. non-possession, lack
  3. being lost

References

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  • عدم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • عدم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.