صحة

See also: صحت

Arabic

Root
ص ح ح (ṣ ḥ ḥ)
14 terms

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sˤiħ.ħa/

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.

   • a. 965, أَبُو اَلطَّيِّب اَلْمُتَنَبِّي [ʔabū ṭ-ṭayyib al-mutanabbī], إن يكن صبر ذي الرزية فضلا‎:

     آلَةُ الْعَيشِ صِحَّةٌ وَشَبَابٌ / فَإِذَا وَلَّيَا عَنِ الْمَرءِ وَلَّى

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. soundness, wholeness, correctness
3. completeness
4. good condition
5. validity
6. God bless you!, bless you! (exclamation said when someone sneezes)
7. Cheers!, To your health! (said in a toast, before drinking)

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

• Maltese: saħħa
• Moroccan Arabic: صحة (ṣaḥḥa)
• → Classical Persian: صِحَّت (sihhat)
  • Dari: صِحَّت (sihhat)
  • Iranian Persian: صِحَّت (sehhat)
  • Tajik: сиҳат (sihat)
  • → Azerbaijani: səhhət
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: सेहत (sehat)

    Urdu: صِحَت (sihat)

  • → Ottoman Turkish: صحت (sıhhat)
    • Turkish: sıhhat
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਸਿਹਤ (sihat)

    Shahmukhi script: صِحَّت (ṣiḥḥat)

  • → Uzbek: sihat
• → Malay: sihat
  • Indonesian: sehat
  • → Minangkabau: siek
• → Swahili: siha

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