جمان

Arabic

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek ἡγουμένη (hēgouménē), at first passed as جُمِّنِيَا (jumminiyā), جُمَّلِيّة (jummaliyya), a name applied to leading ropes; though also connected to Persian کمان (kamân, “anything bent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒu.maːn/

Noun

جُمَان • (jumān) m (collective, singulative جُمَانَة f (jumāna))

1. tassel, puff, a cord or belt garnished with beads and other jewellery, or other cable
2. pearls or other beads particularly if rowed in a cord

Declension

Declension of noun جُمَان (jumān)

Collective	basic collective triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جُمَان jumān	الْجُمَان al-jumān	جُمَان jumān
Nominative	جُمَانٌ jumānun	الْجُمَانُ al-jumānu	جُمَانُ jumānu
Accusative	جُمَانًا jumānan	الْجُمَانَ al-jumāna	جُمَانَ jumāna
Genitive	جُمَانٍ jumānin	الْجُمَانِ al-jumāni	جُمَانِ jumāni
Singulative	singulative triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جُمَانَة jumāna	الْجُمَانَة al-jumāna	جُمَانَة jumānat
Nominative	جُمَانَةٌ jumānatun	الْجُمَانَةُ al-jumānatu	جُمَانَةُ jumānatu
Accusative	جُمَانَةً jumānatan	الْجُمَانَةَ al-jumānata	جُمَانَةَ jumānata
Genitive	جُمَانَةٍ jumānatin	الْجُمَانَةِ al-jumānati	جُمَانَةِ jumānati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جُمَانَتَيْن jumānatayn	الْجُمَانَتَيْن al-jumānatayn	جُمَانَتَيْ jumānatay
Nominative	جُمَانَتَانِ jumānatāni	الْجُمَانَتَانِ al-jumānatāni	جُمَانَتَا jumānatā
Accusative	جُمَانَتَيْنِ jumānatayni	الْجُمَانَتَيْنِ al-jumānatayni	جُمَانَتَيْ jumānatay
Genitive	جُمَانَتَيْنِ jumānatayni	الْجُمَانَتَيْنِ al-jumānatayni	جُمَانَتَيْ jumānatay
Paucal (3-10)	sound feminine paucal
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جُمَانَات jumānāt	الْجُمَانَات al-jumānāt	جُمَانَات jumānāt
Nominative	جُمَانَاتٌ jumānātun	الْجُمَانَاتُ al-jumānātu	جُمَانَاتُ jumānātu
Accusative	جُمَانَاتٍ jumānātin	الْجُمَانَاتِ al-jumānāti	جُمَانَاتِ jumānāti
Genitive	جُمَانَاتٍ jumānātin	الْجُمَانَاتِ al-jumānāti	جُمَانَاتِ jumānāti

Descendants

• Maltese: ġummiena
• → Italian: gomena, gumena, gomina, gumina
  • → Albanian: gumenë
  • → Catalan: gúmena, gómena, gúmana, gúmera
  • → Dalmatian: gȕmina
    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic script: гу̀мина

      Latin script: gùmina

  • → Middle French: gumene, gomene
    • French: gumène, goumène
  • → Greek: γούμενα (goúmena)
  • → Medieval Latin: gumena, gomena
  • → Maltese: gumna
  • → Occitan: guomino
  • → Portuguese: gúmena
  • → Spanish: gúmena, gómena
    • → Basque: gúmena
  • → Ottoman Turkish: غومنه (gomene, gomena, gumena, gomina, gomana), غومانه (gomana), غومانا (gomana), قومانا (komana), قومانه (komana), قومنه (komena, komana), قمانه (komana)
    • Turkish: gomina
  • → Venetian: gómina

References

• Agius, Dionisius A. (1996) Siculo Arabic, London: Kegan Paul International, page 260, who equates this and جُمّة (jumma, “a collective mass of hair”)
• Corriente, F. (1997) “jummaliyya”, in A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29)‎^[1], Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN
• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 285
• Fennis, Jan (1995) Trésor du langage des galères. Dictionnaire exhaustif, avec une introduction, des dessins originaux de René Burlet et des planches de Jean-Antoine de Barras de la Penne, un relevé onomasiologique et une bibliographie (Lexicographica. Series Maior; 62) (in French), volume II, Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, →DOI, pages 1064–1066
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “جمان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 308b
• Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, pages 252–253, Nr. 332, not seeing the origin word.
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “جمان”, 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^[3] (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 331a
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “جمان”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, page 461c
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “جمان”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[5], London: W.H. Allen, page 244a