ن ظ م

See also: نظم‎

Arabic

Etymology

Prefixed from ض م م‎ (ḍ-m-m).[1] Attribution of نِظَام‎ (niẓām, “order; a kind of rope on which beads are rowed”) to ancestors of Persian ‎ (niyâm, “scabbard”),[2] of which the other formations within the root would be denominal, is hardly acceptable.

Root

ن ظ م • (n-ẓ-m)

forms words related to organizing, organization, arrangement, orderliness or composition

Derived terms

Form I: نَظَمَ‎ (naẓama)
- Verbal noun: نَظْم‎ (naẓm)
- Active participle: نَاظِم‎ (nāẓim)
- Passive participle: مَنْظُوم‎ (manẓūm)

Form II: نَظَّمَ‎ (naẓẓama)
- Verbal noun: تَنْظِيم‎ (tanẓīm)
- Active participle: مُنَظِّم‎ (munaẓẓim)
- Passive participle: مُنَظَّم‎ (munaẓẓam)

Form V: تَنَظَّمَ‎ (tanaẓẓama)
- Verbal noun: تَنَظُّم‎ (tanaẓẓum)
- Active participle: مُتَنَظِّم‎ (mutanaẓẓim)
- Passive participle: مُتَنَظَّم‎ (mutanaẓẓam)

Form VI: تَنَاظَمَ‎ (tanāẓama)
- Verbal noun: تَنَاظُم‎ (tanāẓum)
- Active participle: مُتَنَاظِم‎ (mutanāẓim)
- Passive participle: مُتَنَاظَم‎ (mutanāẓam)

Form VIII: اِنْتَظَمَ‎ (intaẓama)
- Verbal noun: اِنْتِظَام‎ (intiẓām)
- Active participle: مُنْتَظِم‎ (muntaẓim)
- Passive participle: مُنْتَظَم‎ (muntaẓam)

نَظْم‎ (naẓm)
نَاظِم‎ (nāẓim, “versifier”)
نَظَّام‎ (naẓẓām, “versifier”)
نِظَام‎ (niẓām)
نَظِيم‎ (naẓīm)
مَنْظَم‎ (manẓam)
مُنَظَّمَة‎ (munaẓẓama)

References

Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, pages 1272–1273
Shapira, Dan D. Y. (2009), “Irano-Arabica: contamination and popular etymology. Notes on the Persian and Arabic lexicons (with references to Aramaic, Hebrew and Turkic)”, in Христианский Восток – Новая Серия, volume 5 (XI), Moscow: Издательство Российской Академии Наук и Государственного Эрмитажа, pages 177–178 fn. 86