See also: شام

Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Root
س م و (s-m-w)

Derived from the active participle of سَمَا (samā, to be high, to be exalted).

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

سَامٍ (sāmin) (informal سَامِي (sāmī), feminine سَامِيَة (sāmiya), masculine plural سَامُون (sāmūn) or سُمَاة (sumāh), feminine plural سَامِيَات (sāmiyāt), elative أَسْمَى (ʔasmā))

  1. high, lofty
  2. exalted, sublime
  3. emanating from the sultan or vizier
Declension edit
Descendants edit
  • Azerbaijani: sami
  • Bengali: সামী (samī)
  • Malay: sami
  • Ottoman Turkish: سامی
  • Persian: سامی
  • Tajik: сомӣ (somī)
  • Urdu: سامی (sāmī)

Etymology 2 edit

Derived from the active participle of سَمَّ (samma, to poison).

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

سَامّ (sāmm) (feminine سَامَّة (sāmma), masculine plural سَامُّونَ (sāmmūna), feminine plural سَامَّات (sāmmāt) or سَوَامّ (sawāmm))

  1. poisonous, toxic
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Etymology 3 edit

Root
س و م (s-w-m)

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Verb edit

سَامَ (sāma) I, non-past يَسُومُ‎ (yasūmu)

  1. (obsolete) to rove, to pasture (camels, sheep, birds …)
  2. to offer for sale [+accusative = the commodity] [+accusative = to whom]
  3. to urge, to demand, to compel, to impose, and the like [+accusative = what] [+accusative = whom]
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 7:141:
      وَإِذْ أَنْجَيْنَاكُمْ مِنْ آلِ فِرْعَوْنَ يَسُومُونَكُمْ سُوءَ الْعَذَابِ ۖ يُقَتِّلُونَ أَبْنَاءَكُمْ وَيَسْتَحْيُونَ نِسَاءَكُمْ ۚ وَفِي ذَٰلِكُم بَلَاءٌ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ عَظِيمٌ
      waʔiḏ ʔanjaynākum min ʔāli firʕawna yasūmūnakum sūʔa l-ʕaḏāba yuqattilūna ʔabnāʔakum wayastaḥyūna nisāʔakum wafī ḏālikum balāʔun min rabbikum ʕaẓīmun
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation edit

Etymology 4 edit

Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܣܳܡ (sām, to constitute, to establish, to set, to place, to install).

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Verb edit

سَامَ (sāma) I, non-past يَسُومُ‎ (yasūmu)

  1. (Christianity) to ordain for ecclesiastical office
Conjugation edit

Etymology 5 edit

Compare Hebrew שֵׁם (šēm). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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Proper noun edit

سَام (sāmm

  1. Shem
  2. a male given name, Sam
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Derived terms edit

Etymology 6 edit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun edit

سَام (sāmm

  1. (obsolete) death
    Synonym: مَوْت (mawt)
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 39:118:
      حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رُمْحِ بْنِ ٱلْمُهَاجِرِ، أَخْبَرَنَا ٱللَّيْثُ، عَنْ عُقَيْلٍ، عَنِ ٱبْنِ شِهَابٍ، أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو سَلَمَةَ بْنُ عَبْدِ ٱلرَّحْمَنِ وَسَعِيدُ بْنُ ٱلْمُسَيَّبِ، أَنَّ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ أَخْبَرَهُمَا أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ ٱللَّٰهِ—صَلَّى ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ—يَقُولُ:‏ ‏«إِنَّ فِي ٱلْحَبَّةِ ٱلسَّوْدَاءِ شِفَاءً مِنْ كُلِّ دَاءٍ إِلَّا ٱلسَّامَ»‏.‏ وَٱلسَّامُ ٱلْمَوْتُ‏.‏ وَٱلْحَبَّةُ ٱلسَّوْدَاءُ ٱلشُّونِيزُ.‏
      ḥaddaṯanā muḥammadu bnu rumḥi bni l-muhājiri, ʔaḵbaranā l-layṯu, ʕan ʕuqaylin, ʕani bni šihābin, ʔaḵbaranī ʔabū salamata bnu ʕabdi r-raḥmani wasaʕīdu bnu l-musayyabi, ʔanna ʔabā hurayrata ʔaḵbarahumā ʔannahu samiʕa rasūla llāhi—ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wasallama—yaqūlu: “ʔinna fī l-ḥabbati s-sawdāʔi šifāʔan min kulli dāʔin ʔillā s-sāma”. was-sāmu l-mawtu. wal-ḥabbatu s-sawdāʔu š-šūnīzu.
      [] God’s Prophet (ﷺ) says: “Blackseed is a cure of every disease short of fatality.” Fatality is death, blackseed is swartzcummel.
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References edit

  • swm”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • سام” in Almaany
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “س و م”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 708
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “س و م”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 378–379
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “س و م”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1474–1475
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سام”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[4], London: W.H. Allen, page 475
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “سام”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 543
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “س م م”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 595
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “س و م”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[7] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 616–617

Persian edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? sām
Dari reading? sām
Iranian reading? sâm
Tajik reading? som

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćyaHmás, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱyeh₁-mó-s (black, dark), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (darkness, shadow). Cognate with Avestan 𐬯𐬁𐬨𐬀 (sāma, black), Sanskrit श्याम (śyāma). Related to سیاه (siyâh, black), and سیاوش (siyâvaš).

Noun edit

سام (sâm)

  1. fire
  2. flame

Proper noun edit

سام (sâm)

  1. a male given name, Sam or Saam

Derived terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Possibly related to آماس (âmâs, swell, swelling). Compare Arabic سام (sām, death) (possibly). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun edit

سام (sâm)

  1. swell, swelling
  2. (by extension) disease

Etymology 3 edit

From Arabic سَامّ (sāmm).

Adjective edit

سام (sâm)

  1. poisonous
  2. toxic

References edit