ء م م

ء م م

Arabic

Etymology

Derived from أُمّ‎ (ʾumm, “mother”).

Root

ء م م • (ʾ-m-m)

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

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: أَمَّ‎ (ʾamma, “to lead, to direct, to betake, to repair to”)
  • Verbal noun: إِمَامَة‎ (ʾimāma)
  • Active participle: آمّ‎ (ʾāmm)
  • Passive participle: مَأْمُوم‎ (maʾmūm)
• Form I: أَمَّ‎ (ʾamma, “to become mother”)
  • Verbal noun: أُمُومَة‎ (ʾumūma)
  • Active participle: آمّ‎ (ʾāmm)
  • Passive participle: مَأْمُوم‎ (maʾmūm)
• Form II: أَمَّمَ‎ (ʾammama, “to nationalize”)
  • Verbal noun: تَأْمِيم‎ (taʾmīm)
  • Active participle: مُؤَمِّم‎ (muʾammim)
  • Passive participle: مُؤَمَّم‎ (muʾammam)
• Form V: تَأَمَّمَ‎ (taʾammama, “to pop over, to repair to”)
  • Verbal noun: تَأَمُّم‎ (taʾammum)
  • Active participle: مُتَأَمِّم‎ (mutaʾammim)
  • Passive participle: مُتَأَمَّم‎ (mutaʾammam)
• Form VIII: اِئْتَمَّ‎ (iʾtamma, “to imitate, to follow the model of”), اِيتَمَّ‎ (ītamma, “to imitate, to follow the model of”)
  • Verbal noun: اِئْتِمَام‎ (iʾtimām), اِيتِمَام‎ (ītimām)
  • Active participle: مُؤْتَمّ‎ (muʾtamm)
  • Passive participle: مُؤْتَمّ‎ (muʾtamm)

Nouns and adjectives

• أَمَام‎ (ʾamām, “front, before (something)”)
• أَمَم‎ (ʾamam, “some what distant”)
• إِمَام‎ (ʾimām, “leader, imam”)
  • إِمَامَة‎ (ʾimāma, “leadership, imamate”)
• إِمَّة‎ (ʾimma, “state, condition, form; imitation of an example”)
• أُمَّة‎ (ʾumma)
• أَمِيم‎ (ʾamīm, “having suffered a percussion on the head; stone by which someone has been hit on the head”)
• أَمِيمَة‎ (ʾamīma, “stone by which someone is hit on the head”)
• آمَّة‎ (ʾāmma, “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, 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