س و م

Arabic

Root

س و م • (s-w-m)

1. related to letting cattle pasture

Derived terms

• Form I: سَامَ (sāma, “to rove, to pasture (camels, sheep, birds …); to offer for sale [+accusative = the commodity] [+accusative = to whom]; to urge, to demand, to compel, to impose, and the like [+accusative = what] [+accusative = whom]”)
  • Verbal noun: سَوْم (sawm)
  • Active participle: سَائِم (sāʔim)
  • Passive participle: مَسُوم (masūm)
• Form II: سَوَّمَ (sawwama, “to let pasture; to impose; to put a mark upon; to estimate”)
  • Verbal noun: تَسْوِيم (taswīm)
  • Active participle: مُسَوِّم (musawwim)
  • Passive participle: مُسَوَّم (musawwam)
• Form III: سَاوَمَ (sāwama, “to bargain, to haggle, to palter, to chaffer”)
  • Verbal noun: مُسَاوَمَة (musāwama), سِوَام (siwām)
  • Active participle: مُسَاوِم (musāwim)
  • Passive participle: مُسَاوَم (musāwam)
• Form IV: أَسَامَ (ʔasāma, “to make pasture; to mark”)
  • Verbal noun: إِسَامَة (ʔisāma)
  • Active participle: مُسِيم (musīm)
  • Passive participle: مُسَام (musām)
• Form V: تَسَوَّمَ (tasawwama, “to set a mark upon oneself, to put a token one oneself”)
  • Verbal noun: تَسَوُّم (tasawwum)
  • Active participle: مُتَسَوِّم (mutasawwim)
• Form VI: تَسَاوَمَ (tasāwama, “to haggle with one other”)
  • Verbal noun: تَسَاوُم (tasāwum)
  • Active participle: مُتَسَاوِم (mutasāwim)
• Form VIII: اِسْتَامَ (istāma, “to haggle over, to bargain for”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِيَام (istiyām)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَام (mustām)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَام (mustām)

• سَائِمَة (sāʔima, “livestock pasturing freely”)
• سُومة (sūma, “price; token, badge”)
• سِيمَة (sīma, “sign, badge, token”)
• مَسَام (masām, “place where cattle pastures”)
• مَسَامَة (masāma, “a thick piece of wood at the bottom of the side-posts of a door”)
• أُسَامَة (ʔusāma, “ferocious beast; lion”)

References

• “swm”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “س و م”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 708–709
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 378–379
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “س و م”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1474–1476
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “س و م”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: W.H. Allen, page 475
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “س و م”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 616–617