ك م ن

ك م ن

Arabic

Root

ك م ن • (k-m-n)

1. related to absconsion, louring

Derived terms

• Form I: كَمَنَ‎ (kamana, “to be hidden, to be absconded, to lie undetected, to reside, to lurk, to bushwhack, to lour”)
  • Verbal noun: كُمُون‎ (kumūn)
  • Active participle: كَامِن‎ (kāmin)
• Form I: كَمِنَ‎ (kamina, “to be hidden, to be absconded, to lie undetected, to reside, to lurk, to bushwhack, to lour”)
  • Verbal noun: كُمُون‎ (kumūn)
  • Active participle: كَامِن‎ (kāmin)
• Form II: كَمَّنَ‎ (kammana, “to ambuscade, to bushwhack, to insidiate towards”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكْمِين‎ (takmīn)
  • Active participle: مُكَمِّن‎ (mukammin)
  • Passive participle: مُكَمَّن‎ (mukamman)
• Form IV: أَكْمَنَ‎ (ʾakmana, “to abscond; to insidiate towards”)
  • Verbal noun: إِكْمَان‎ (ʾikmān)
  • Active participle: مُكْمِن‎ (mukmin)
  • Passive participle: مُكْمَن‎ (mukman)
• Form V: تَكَمَّنَ‎ (takammana, “to lour, to hide oneself”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكَمُّن‎ (takammun)
  • Active participle: مُتَكَمِّن‎ (mutakammin)
• Form VIII: اِكْتَمَنَ‎ (iktamana, “to hide oneself; to hide”)
  • Verbal noun: اِكْتِمَان‎ (iktimān)
  • Active participle: مُكْتَمِن‎ (muktamin)
  • Passive participle: مُكْتَمَن‎ (muktaman)
• Form X: اِسْتَكْمَنَ‎ (istakmana, “to lie hidden”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِكْمَان‎ (istikmān)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَكْمِن‎ (mustakmin)

• كَمِين‎ (kamīn, “ambush; absconded”)
• كُمْنَة‎ (kumna, “amaurosis”)
•  مَكْمَن‎ (makman, “place where something resides or hides”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “ك م ن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 490
• Freytag, Georg (1837), “ك م ن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 60
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ك م ن”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 930–931
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “ك م ن”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, pages 895–896
• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887), “ك م ن”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 596
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ك م ن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 985–986
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ك م ن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1121