سحور
suḥūr
suhoor is the Arabic term for the meal eaten by Muslims before dawn during fasting hours.
The term is used specifically to refer to the pre-dawn meal during the month of Ramadan or any other day of fasting.
How do you pronounce it?
suḥūr
Did you know?
- In many Muslim-majority countries, the suhoor is accompanied by a rhythmic drumming tradition where mesaharati walk through the streets to wake people up for their meal.
- In many North African countries, the word سحور might be replaced by the local dialectal term فطور (fatur) to refer to this pre-dawn meal, even though 'fatur' typically means 'breakfast' or 'breaking the fast' in standard Arabic.
- The word suhoor is linguistically related to the word sahar, which refers to the time just before dawn when the night is ending and the day is beginning.
Examples in context
- هل جهزت سحور رمضان؟hal jahazta suhoor Ramadan?Did you prepare the Ramadan suhoor?
