و ه م

Arabic

Root

و ه م • (w-h-m)

1. related to conjecture

Derived terms

• Form I: وَهَمَ (wahama, “to conjecture, to guess, to presume, to ween, to surmise, to fancy, to assume on ill grounds”)
  • Verbal noun: وَهْم (wahm)
  • Active participle: وَاهِم (wāhim)
  • Passive participle: مَوْهُوم (mawhūm)
• Form I: وَهِمَ (wahima, “to be in a state of fancy, to have illusions”)
  • Verbal noun: وَهَم (waham)
  • Active participle: وَاهِم (wāhim)
• Form II: وَهَّمَ (wahhama, “to illude, to delude, to make believe, to cully”)
  • Verbal noun: تَوْهِيم (tawhīm)
  • Active participle: مُوَهِّم (muwahhim)
  • Passive participle: مُوَهَّم (muwahham)
• Form IV: أَوْهَمَ (ʔawhama, “to illude, to delude, to make believe, to cully”)
  • Verbal noun: إِيهَام (ʔīhām)
  • Active participle: مُوهِم (mūhim)
  • Passive participle: مُوهَم (mūham)
• Form V: تَوَهَّمَ (tawahhama, “to fancy, to envisage”)
  • Verbal noun: تَوَهُّم (tawahhum)
  • Active participle: مُتَوَهِّم (mutawahhim)
  • Passive participle: مُتَوَهَّم (mutawahham)
• Form VIII: اِتَّهَمَ (ittahama, “to raise suspicion against, to charge”)
  • Verbal noun: اِتِّهَام (ittihām)
  • Active participle: مُتَّهِم (muttahim)
  • Passive participle: مُتَّهَم (muttaham)

• تُهْمَة (tuhma, “raising suspicion, charge”)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “و ه م”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 511–512
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “و ه م”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen, pages 1235–1236
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “و ه م”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1442