# يوم
## Arabic
### Etymology 1.1

From Proto-Semitic *yawm-.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jawm/

#### Noun

يَوْم • (yawm) m (plural أَيَّام (ʔayyām))
* day, period from sunrise to sunset
    Antonym: لَيْلَة (layla)
    أَذْهَبُ إِلَى ٱلْمَدْرَسَةِ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ.ʔaḏhabu ʔilā l-madrasati kulla yawmin.I go to school every day.
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 69:7:سَخَّرَهَا عَلَيْهِمْ سَبْعَ لَيَالٍ وَثَمَانِيَةَ أَيَّامٍ حُسُومًا فَتَرَى الْقَوْمَ فِيهَا صَرْعَى كَأَنَّهُمْ أَعْجَازُ نَخْلٍ خَاوِيَةٍsaḵḵarahā ʕalayhim sabʕa layālin wa-ṯamāniyata ʔayyāmin ḥusūman fa-tarā l-qawma fīhā ṣarʕā kaʔannahum ʔaʕjāzu naḵlin ḵāwiyatinWhich Allah imposed upon them for seven nights and eight days in succession, so you would see the people therein fallen as if they were hollow trunks of palm trees.
* day, period of twenty-four hours
    فِي يَوْمٍ مِنَ الْأَيَّامِ ― fī yawmin mina l-ʔayyāmi ― once (in the past), once upon a time
* (singular only) Judgment Day
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 76:7:يُوفُونَ بِالنَّذْرِ وَيَخَافُونَ يَوْمًا كَانَ شَرُّهُ مُسْتَطِيرًاyūfūna bi-n-naḏri wa-yaḵāfūna yawman kāna šarruhu mustaṭīranThey fulfil [their] vows and fear a Day of sweeping horror,
* (uncommon, Classical Arabic) (day of) battle

##### Derived terms

* الْيَوْمَ (al-yawma)
* يَوْم الدِّين (yawm ad-dīn)
* يَوْم الْقِيَامَة (yawm al-qiyāma)
* يَوْمًا (yawman)
* يَوْمٌ لَكَ وَيَوْمٌ عَلَيْكَ (yawmun laka wayawmun ʕalayka, proverb)
* يَوْمَئِذٍ (yawmaʔiḏin)
* يَوْمَذَاكَ (yawmaḏāka)
* يَوْمِيَّة (yawmiyya)
* يَوْمِيّ (yawmiyy)

##### Descendants

* Egyptian Arabic: يوم (yōm)
* Gulf Arabic: يوم (yōm)
* Hijazi Arabic: يوم (yōm)
* Maltese: jum
* Moroccan Arabic: يوم (yūm)
* → Ottoman Turkish: یوم (yevm)
** Turkish: yevm
* → Persian: یوم (yowm)
** → Urdu: یوم (yaum)
** → Hindi: यौम (yaum), इय्याम (iyyām)

### Etymology 1.2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jaw.ma/
* Audio:(file)

#### Conjunction

يَوْمَ • (yawma)
* at the day when
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 79:46:كَأَنَّهُمْ يَوْمَ يَرَوْنَهَا لَمْ يَلْبَثُوا إِلَّا عَشِيَّةً أَوْ ضُحَاهَاkaʔannahum yawma yarawnahā lam yalbaṯū ʔillā ʕašiyyatan ʔaw ḍuḥāhāIt will be, on the Day they see it, as though they had not remained except for an afternoon or a morning thereof.

### See also

* لَيْل (layl)
* نَهَار (nahār)

### References

* Wehr, Hans (1979) “يوم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic يَوْم (yawm).

### Noun

يوم • (yūm) m (dual يومين (yūmēn), plural أيام (ayyām), paucal تيام (tiyām))
* day

#### Coordinate terms

* ليل (lēl, “nighttime”)
* ليلة (lēla, “night”)
* نهار (nahār, “daytime”)

## Gulf Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic يَوْم (yawm).

### Pronunciation

* (Kuwait) IPA: /joːm/

### Noun

يوم • (yōm) m (dual يومين (yōmēn), plural ايام (ayyām))
* day
    ما بتروحون معرض يوم البحار؟ ― Are you not going to the Sailor Day fair?
    اليوم مو يومي ― il-yōm mū yōmi ― Today is not my day
* (usually in the plural) time, era, age
    ايام الغزو ― the time of the invasion
    ايام الشاه ― the Shah era

#### Derived terms

* اليوم (il-yōm, “today”)

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic يَوْم (yawm).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /joːm/, [jo̞ːm]

### Noun

يوم • (yōm) m (dual يومين (yōmēn), plural أَيَّام (ʔayyām))
* day

#### See also

* سنة (sana)
* شهر (šahar)
* أسبوع (ʔusbūʕ)
* يوم (yōm)
* ساعة (sāʕa)
* دقيقة (dagīga)
* لحظة (laḥẓa)
* ثانية (ṯānya)

## Malay
### Etymology

From Arabic يَوْم (yawm).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [jaom]
* Rhymes: -aom, -om

### Noun

يوم (Rumi spelling yaum, plural يوم-يوم or يوم٢, informal 1st possessive يومکو, 2nd possessive يوممو, 3rd possessive يومڽ)
* day (period of 24 hours)
* day (period from midnight to the following midnight)
* day (rotational period of a planet)
* day (part of a day period which one spends at one’s job, school, etc.)

#### Synonyms

* هاري (hari)

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic يَوْم (yawm).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /juːm/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

يوم • (yūm) m (dual يومين (yūmayn), plural إيام (ʔiyyām) or إيامات (ʔiyyāmāt))
* day
    Synonym: نهار (nhār)
    Antonym: ليل (līl)
* (usually in the plural) time, era, age

#### Derived terms

* اليوم (el-yūma, “today”)

## North Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic يَوْم (yawm).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jawm/, [joːm]

### Noun

يوم • (yōm) m or f (plural إيام (ʾiyyām))
* day

#### Usage notes

* Despite appearing masculine, the word is often feminine when definite. For example, it can be used with a feminine determiner like هديك اليوم (hadīk l-yōm, “that day”) instead of a masculine one like هيداك اليوم (haydāk l-yom, “that day”), and it can appear as يومتـ (yawmit-, yōmit-) in the construct state.

## Pashto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /jum/

### Noun

يوم • (yûm) m
* spade

#### Declension
## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic يَوْم (yawm).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /joːm/, [joːm]
* Audio (Amman):(file)

### Noun

يوم • (yōm) m (plural أيّام (ʔayyām))
* day
    Antonym: ليلة (lēle)

#### Derived terms

* اليوم (il-yōm, “today”)

#### See also

* نهار (nhār, “daytime”)
* ليل (lēl, “nighttime”)
* سنة (sane)
* شهر (šahr)
* أسبوع (ʔusbūʕ)
* يوم (yōm)
* ساعة (sāʕa)
* دقيقة (daʔīʔa)
* لحظة (laḥẓa)
* ثانية (ṯānye)