Glossary entry

Arabic term or phrase:

الحواميم

English translation:

Hawamim - Verses starting with the letters

Added to glossary by Tharaa Hafez
May 6, 2005 09:00
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Arabic term

الحواميم

Arabic to English Other Religion
لترتيب وضع السور في المصحف أسباب تُطلِع على أنه توقيفي صادر عن حكيم، أحدها: بحسب الحروف كما في الحواميم، وثانيها: موافقة أول السورة لآخر ما قبلها كآخر الحمد في المعنى وأول البقرة.."

Thanks in advance .

Saraa

Proposed translations

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Hawamim OR Verses starting with the letters "hm"

هذه السور الست يطلق عليها اسم الحواميم لآنها ابتدأت كلها بـ (حم)وبالتالي لا أعتقد بإمكان إيجاد مقابل من كلمة واحدة في اللغة الإنجليزية لذلك يجوز تركها كما هي مع الشرح والله أعلم
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neutral Aisha Maniar : not VERSES but CHAPTERS
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You are absolutely right! Verses are ayat, not suwar
agree HammoudLawFirm
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agree ahmadwadan.com
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agree Mohamed Gaafar
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks a lot Saraa"
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Arabic term (edited): ��������

The letters ح and م to refer to the chapters that begin: حم

I would transliterate this as "hawamim" and then add in an explanatory translatory, or footnote as it could be lengthy, to explain that this term refers to the "29 chapters of the Qur'an/Koran that begin with separate letters and not words"; these are chapters that begin with letters such as حم, الم, etc. Or you could translate as "hawamim (chapters of the Qur'an/Koran starting with the letters HA and MIM".

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9033853
(Arabic“prefatory ones”)

also called hawamim (the letters ha and mim) , or huruf al-muqatta'ah (Arabic: the “detached letters”) letters of the alphabet appearing at the beginning of 29 of the surahs (chapters) of the Muslim sacred scripture, the Qur'an. The 14 letters thus designated occur singly and in various combinations of two to five. As the letters always stand separately (muqatta'ah), they do not form words and are read by their alphabetic names, as ha mim, alif lam mim, ta sin mim.

Hope that helps, Aisha
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agree Sam Berner (X) : This is a far better answer than mine.
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agree A Nabil Bouitieh
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