See also: کرم and گرم

Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

Root
ك ر م (k-r-m)

Verb edit

كَرُمَ (karuma) I, non-past يَكْرُمُ‎ (yakrumu)

  1. to be or become noble
    Antonym: لَؤُمَ (laʔuma)
  2. to be or become generous
    Antonym: بَخِلَ (baḵila)
  3. to be or become precious
Conjugation edit

Verb edit

كَرَّمَ (karrama) II, non-past يُكَرِّمُ‎ (yukarrimu)

  1. to call (someone) noble
  2. to honor, to venerate
  3. to exalt
Conjugation edit

Noun edit

كَرَم (karamm

  1. verbal noun of كَرُمَ (karuma) (form I)
  2. nobleness, kindness
  3. generosity
    Synonym: سَخَاء (saḵāʔ)
    • 2018 July 6, “رئيس الجمهورية يزور مدينة “عرتا” الجيبوتية [The President of the Republic visits the town of ʿartā of Djibouti]”, in وكالة الأنباء الوطنية الصومالية [Somali National News Agency]‎[1], archived from the original on 2019-01-27:
      لمدينة عرتا لها ذاكرة في قلوب الصوماليين، حيث إحتضنت نقبة كبيرة من المجتمع الصومالي، وأنها أصبحت رمزا للكرم والسخاء.
      li-madīnati ʕartā la-hā ḏākiratun fī qulūbi ṣ-ṣūmāliyyīna, ḥayṯu ḥtaḍanat naqbatan kabīratan mina l-mujtamaʕi ṣ-ṣūmāliyyi, wa-ʔanna-hā ʔaṣbaḥat ramzan li-l-karami wa-s-saḵāʔi.
      The town of ʿartā is of avid memory with the Somalis in that it embraced a large swathe of Somali society and became a symbol of openhandedness and generosity.
Declension edit
Descendants edit
  • Azerbaijani: kərəm
  • Swahili: karamu (banquet, celebration)
  • Ottoman Turkish: كرم (kerem)
  • Spanish: encaramar (to climb, to lift)
 
كَرْم

Etymology 2 edit

Compare Ugaritic 𐎋𐎗𐎎 (krm, vineyard), Aramaic כַּרְמָא (karmā, vineyard), Hebrew כֶּרֶם (kérem, vineyard), Akkadian 𒃾 (karānum, wine, vine, grapes), and the possible etymon Egyptian kꜣm. Due to the small difference in the third consonant of the Akkadian form, the Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou suggests a borrowing from a language of Anatolia, the same suspicion as for Proto-West Semitic *wayn- (grape), and additionally speculates that the homonymic root related to nobleness derived from the name of the vine plant.

Noun edit

كَرْم (karmm (collective, singulative كَرْمَة f (karma), plural كُرُوم (kurūm))

  1. vineyard, vines, orchard
Declension edit
Descendants edit

References edit

  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 1100–1101
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “كرم”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[2] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 459–460
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “كرم”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[3] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 28–29
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “كرم”, 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[4] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 888–890
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “كرم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 962–963

Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Arabic كَرَم (karam).

Noun edit

كرم (karim)

  1. generous
  2. noble

Descendants edit

Proper noun edit

كرم (Kerem)

  1. a male given name from Arabic: Kerem

South Levantine Arabic edit

Root
ك ر م
2 terms

Etymology edit

From Arabic كَرَّمَ (karrama).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /kar.ram/, [ˈkar.ram]
  • (file)

Verb edit

كرّم (karram) II (present بكرّم (bikarrem))

  1. to honor
    Synonym: أكرم (ʔakram)

Conjugation edit

    Conjugation of كرّم (karram)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m كرّمت (karramt) كرّمت (karramt) كرّم (karram) كرّمنا (karramna) كرّمتو (karramtu) كرّمو (karramu)
f كرّمتي (karramti) كرّمت (karramat)
present m بكرّم (bakarrem) بتكرّم (bitkarrem) بكرّم (bikarrem) منكرّم (minkarrem) بتكرّمو (bitkarrmu) بكرّمو (bikarrmu)
f بتكرّمي (bitkarrmi) بتكرّم (bitkarrem)
subjunctive m اكرّم (akarrem) تكرّم (tkarrem) يكرّم (ykarrem) نكرّم (nkarrem) تكرّمو (tkarrmu) يكرّمو (ykarrmu)
f تكرّمي (tkarrmi) تكرّم (tkarrem)
imperative m كرّم (karrem) كرّمو (karrmu)
f كرّمي (karrmi)