تمن

Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Noun edit

تَمَنٍّ • (tamannin) m (construct state تَمَنِّي (tamannī))

verbal noun of تَمَنَّى (tamannā) (form V)

Declension edit

Declension of noun تَمَنٍّ (tamannin)

Singular	singular triptote in ـٍ (-in)
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	تَمَنِّي tamannī	التَّمَنِّي at-tamannī	تَمَنِّي tamannī
Nominative	تَمَنٍّ tamannin	التَّمَنِّي at-tamannī	تَمَنِّي tamannī
Accusative	تَمَنِّيًا tamanniyan	التَّمَنِّيَ at-tamanniya	تَمَنِّيَ tamanniya
Genitive	تَمَنٍّ tamannin	التَّمَنِّي at-tamannī	تَمَنِّي tamannī

Etymology 2 edit

Verb edit

تَمُنُّ • (tamunnu) (form I)

second-person masculine singular non-past active indicative of مَنَّ (manna)
third-person feminine singular non-past active indicative of مَنَّ (manna)

Verb edit

تَمُنَّ • (tamunna) (form I)

second-person masculine singular non-past active subjunctive of مَنَّ (manna)
second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive of مَنَّ (manna)
third-person feminine singular non-past active subjunctive of مَنَّ (manna)
third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive of مَنَّ (manna)

Verb edit

تَمُنِّ • (tamunni) (form I)

second-person masculine singular non-past active jussive of مَنَّ (manna)
third-person feminine singular non-past active jussive of مَنَّ (manna)

Etymology 3 edit

Verb edit

تَمَنَّ • (tamanna) (form V)

second-person masculine singular active imperative of تَمَنَّى (tamannā)

Iraqi Arabic edit

Etymology edit

Uncertain. The word is also found in Najdi Arabic as تمن (tamn, tamman). Iraqi folk etymology derives it from English ten men, supposedly written on cans used by the British armed forces during the Mesopotamian campaign of World War I (or similar anecdotes). This fanciful theory is definitely ruled out by the fact that the word was mentioned by Carlo Guarmani in his Il Neged settentrionale (Jerusalem, 1866, p. 71). Some scholars link it per metathesis with Biblical Hebrew מנית (minnīṯ), an obscure word usually considered a place name, which in Ezekiel 27:17, however, was also interpreted by the Rabbinic tradition as “rice”. This word is further compared to certain Dravidian forms like Kurukh [script needed] (maṇḍi, “unpeeled rice”). The Iraqi form is also phonetically similar to Burmese ထမင်း (hta.mang:, “cooked rice”), though this may be coincidental.