Arabic edit

Etymology edit

Unknown. The plant-name is borrowed from or well possibly cognate to semantically congruent Aramaic רִיתְמָא / רִתְמָא (riṯmā), רֹותְמָא / רֹתְמָא (rōṯmā), Hebrew רֹותֶם / רֹתֶם (rōṯem), the rest is likely denominal.

Verb edit

رَتَمَ (ratama) I, non-past يَرْتِمُ‎ (yartimu)

  1. to crush, to grind, to triturate, to consume, to eat away

Conjugation edit

Noun edit

رَتْم (ratmm

  1. verbal noun of رَتَمَ (ratama) (form I)

Declension edit

Adjective edit

رَتْم (ratm)

  1. crushed, bruised

Declension edit

 
رَتَم

Noun edit

رَتَم (ratamm (collective, singulative رَتَمَة f (ratama))

  1. retama (Retama gen. et spp., and similar related species in Genista and Cytisus)

Declension edit

References edit

  •   رتم on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ar
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  • 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 517
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “رتم”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 509
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  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “رتم”, 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), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 817–818
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  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden[5] (in German), volume 2, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 469–473
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  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “رتم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[7] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 451