ء و م

Arabic

Root

ء و م • (ʔ-w-m)

1. related to letting things follow oneself as by respiration

Derived terms

• Form I: آمَ (ʔāma, “to respire thirstily; to smoke; to precede; to govern”)
  • Verbal noun: أَوْم (ʔawm), أَيَام (ʔayām)
  • Active participle: آئِم (ʔāʔim)
  • Passive participle: مَأُوم (maʔūm), مَؤُوم (maʔūm)
• Form II: أَوَّمَ (ʔawwama, “to make thirsty”)
  • Verbal noun: تَأْوِيم (taʔwīm)
  • Active participle: مُؤَوِّم (muʔawwim)
  • Passive participle: مُؤَوَّم (muʔawwam)

• أُوَام (ʔuwām, “thirst”)
• إِيَام (ʔiyām, “smoke”); pl. أُيُم (ʔuyum)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ء و م”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 72
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ء و م”, 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^[2] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 71