غ م م

غ م م

Arabic

Etymology

Compare غ م ض‎ (ḡ m ḍ) and غ ي م‎ (ḡ y m).

Root

غ م م • (ḡ-m-m)

1. The semantic development originates perhaps from the meaning of covering, veiling, and this being applied to the sky covered by clouds would have yielded a meanin of grief or chagrin as commonly a gloomy sky is associated with such feelings

Derived terms

• Form I: غَمَّ‎ (ḡamma, “to cover, to veil; to fill with grief”)
  • Verbal noun: غَمّ‎ (ḡamm)
  • Active participle: غَامّ‎ (ḡāmm)
  • Passive participle: مَغْمُوم‎ (maḡmūm)
• Form II: غَمَّمَ‎ (ḡammama, “to cover, to veil”)
  • Verbal noun: تَغْمِيم‎ (taḡmīm)
  • Active participle: مُغَمِّم‎ (muḡammim)
  • Passive participle: مُغَمَّم‎ (muḡammam)
• Form III: غَامَّ‎ (ḡāmma, “to grieve with”), غَامَمَ‎ (ḡāmama, “to grieve with”)
  • Verbal noun: مُغَامَمَة‎ (muḡāmama), غِمَام‎ (ḡimām)
  • Active participle: مُغَامّ‎ (muḡāmm), مُغَامِم‎ (muḡāmim)
  • Passive participle: مُغَامّ‎ (muḡāmm), مُغَامَم‎ (muḡāmam)
• Form IV: أَغَمَّ‎ (ʾaḡamma, “to be clouded; to fill with grief”)
  • Verbal noun: إِغْمَام‎ (ʾiḡmām)
  • Active participle: مُغِمّ‎ (muḡimm)
  • Passive participle: مُغَمّ‎ (muḡamm)
• Form V: تَغَمَّمَ‎ (taḡammama, “to become covered”)
  • Verbal noun: تَغَمُّم‎ (taḡammum)
  • Active participle: مُتَغَمِّم‎ (mutaḡammim)
• Form VI: تَغَامَّ‎ (taḡāmma), تَغَامَمَ‎ (taḡāmama)
  • Verbal noun: تَغَامُم‎ (taḡāmum)
  • Active participle: مُتَغَامّ‎ (mutaḡāmm), مُتَغَامِم‎ (mutaḡāmim)
• Form VII: اِنْغَمَّ‎ (inḡamma, “to become filled with grief”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْغِمَام‎ (inḡimām)
  • Active participle: مُنْغَمّ‎ (munḡamm)
• Form VIII: اِغْتَمَّ‎ (iḡtamma, “to become filled with grief; to be tall”)
  • Verbal noun: اِغْتِمَام‎ (iḡtimām)
  • Active participle: مُغْتَمّ‎ (muḡtamm)

• غُمَّة‎ (ḡumma, “mourn, sadness”)
• غِمَامَة‎ (ḡimāma, “blinder; muzzle”); pl. غَمَائِم‎ (ḡamāʾim)
• غَمَام‎ (ḡamām, “clouds”)
• أَغَمّ‎ (ʾaḡamm, “dense, shaggy”); f. غَمَّاء‎ (ḡammāʾ)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835), “غ م م”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 292–293
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “غ م م”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2289–2291
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “غ م م”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 926