س و م

س و م

Arabic

Root

س و م • (s-w-m)

1. related to letting cattle pasture

Derived terms

• Form I: سَامَ‎ (sāma, “to rove, to pasture (camels, sheep, birds …); to offer for sale [+accusative = the commodity] [+accusative = to whom]; to urge, to demand, to compel, to impose, and the like [+accusative = what] [+accusative = whom]”)
  • Verbal noun: سَوْم‎ (sawm)
  • Active participle: سَائِم‎ (sāʾim)
  • Passive participle: مَسُوم‎ (masūm)
• Form II: سَوَّمَ‎ (sawwama, “to let pasture; to impose; to put a mark upon; to estimate”)
  • Verbal noun: تَسْوِيم‎ (taswīm)
  • Active participle: مُسَوِّم‎ (musawwim)
  • Passive participle: مُسَوَّم‎ (musawwam)
• Form III: سَاوَمَ‎ (sāwama, “to bargain, to haggle, to palter, to chaffer”)
  • Verbal noun: مُسَاوَمَة‎ (musāwama), سِوَام‎ (siwām)
  • Active participle: مُسَاوِم‎ (musāwim)
  • Passive participle: مُسَاوَم‎ (musāwam)
• Form IV: أَسَامَ‎ (ʾasāma, “to make pasture; to mark”)
  • Verbal noun: إِسَامَة‎ (ʾisāma)
  • Active participle: مُسِيم‎ (musīm)
  • Passive participle: مُسَام‎ (musām)
• Form V: تَسَوَّمَ‎ (tasawwama, “to set a mark upon oneself, to put a token one oneself”)
  • Verbal noun: تَسَوُّم‎ (tasawwum)
  • Active participle: مُتَسَوِّم‎ (mutasawwim)
• Form VI: تَسَاوَمَ‎ (tasāwama, “to haggle with one other”)
  • Verbal noun: تَسَاوُم‎ (tasāwum)
  • Active participle: مُتَسَاوِم‎ (mutasāwim)
• Form VIII: اِسْتَامَ‎ (istāma, “to haggle over, to bargain for”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِيَام‎ (istiyām)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَام‎ (mustām)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَام‎ (mustām)

• سَائِمَة‎ (sāʾima, “livestock pasturing freely”)
• سُومة‎ (sūma, “price; token, badge”)
• سِيمَة‎ (sīma, “sign, badge, token”)
• مَسَام‎ (masām, “place where cattle pastures”)
• مَسَامَة‎ (masāma, “a thick piece of wood at the bottom of the side-posts of a door”)
• أُسَامَة‎ (ʾusāma, “ferocious beast; lion”)

References

• “swm”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “س و م”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 708–709
• Freytag, Georg (1833), “”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 378–379
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “س و م”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1474–1476
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “س و م”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 475
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “س و م”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 616–617