sawm

sawm
/sawm/, n.
fasting, esp. during the month of Ramadan; the fourth of the Pillars of Islam.

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Islam
      (Arabic: “fasting”), in Islām, any religious fast, but particularly the fast of the month of Ramaḍān (q.v.).

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