ء م م

Arabic

Etymology

Derived from أُمّ (ʔumm, “mother”).

Compare Hebrew א־מ־ם.

Root

ء م م • (ʔ-m-m)

  1. related to preceding, leading, or heading in a direction

Derived terms
Verbs
  • Form I: أَمَّ (ʔamma, “to lead, to direct, to betake, to repair to”)
    • Verbal noun: إِمَامَة (ʔimāma)
    • Active participle: آمّ (ʔāmm)
    • Passive participle: مَأْمُوم (maʔmūm)
  • Form I: أَمَّ (ʔamma, “to become mother”)
    • Verbal noun: أُمُومَة (ʔumūma)
    • Active participle: آمّ (ʔāmm)
    • Passive participle: مَأْمُوم (maʔmūm)
  • Form II: أَمَّمَ (ʔammama, “to nationalize”)
    • Verbal noun: تَأْمِيم (taʔmīm)
    • Active participle: مُؤَمِّم (muʔammim)
    • Passive participle: مُؤَمَّم (muʔammam)
  • Form V: تَأَمَّمَ (taʔammama, “to pop over, to repair to”)
    • Verbal noun: تَأَمُّم (taʔammum)
    • Active participle: مُتَأَمِّم (mutaʔammim)
    • Passive participle: مُتَأَمَّم (mutaʔammam)
  • Form VIII: اِئْتَمَّ (iʔtamma, “to imitate, to follow the model of”), اِيتَمَّ (ītamma, “to imitate, to follow the model of”)
Nouns and adjectives
  • أَمَام (ʔamām, “front, before (something)”)
  • أَمَم (ʔamam, “some what distant”)
  • إِمَام (ʔimām, “leader, imam”)
  • إِمَّة (ʔimma, “state, condition, form; imitation of an example”)
  • أُمَّة (ʔumma)
  • أَمِيم (ʔamīm, “having suffered a percussion on the head; stone by which someone has been hit on the head”)
  • أَمِيمَة (ʔamīma, “stone by which someone is hit on the head”)
  • آمَّة (ʔāmma, “head fracture”)

References
  • Brockelmann, Carl (1928) Lexicon Syriacum (in Latin), 2nd edition, Halle: Max Niemeyer, published 1995, page 24a
  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 73–74
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “ء م م”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 54–57
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