غ م م

Arabic

Etymology

Compare غ م ض (ḡ m ḍ) and غ ي م (ḡ y m).

Root

غ م م • (ḡ-m-m)

1. The semantic development originates perhaps from the meaning of covering, veiling, and this being applied to the sky covered by clouds would have yielded a meanin of grief or chagrin as commonly a gloomy sky is associated with such feelings

Derived terms

• Form I: غَمَّ (ḡamma, “to cover, to veil; to fill with grief”)
  • Verbal noun: غَمّ (ḡamm)
  • Active participle: غَامّ (ḡāmm)
  • Passive participle: مَغْمُوم (maḡmūm)
• Form II: غَمَّمَ (ḡammama, “to cover, to veil”)
  • Verbal noun: تَغْمِيم (taḡmīm)
  • Active participle: مُغَمِّم (muḡammim)
  • Passive participle: مُغَمَّم (muḡammam)
• Form III: غَامَّ (ḡāmma, “to grieve with”), غَامَمَ (ḡāmama, “to grieve with”)
  • Verbal noun: مُغَامَمَة (muḡāmama), غِمَام (ḡimām)
  • Active participle: مُغَامّ (muḡāmm), مُغَامِم (muḡāmim)
  • Passive participle: مُغَامّ (muḡāmm), مُغَامَم (muḡāmam)
• Form IV: أَغَمَّ (ʔaḡamma, “to be clouded; to fill with grief”)
  • Verbal noun: إِغْمَام (ʔiḡmām)
  • Active participle: مُغِمّ (muḡimm)
  • Passive participle: مُغَمّ (muḡamm)
• Form V: تَغَمَّمَ (taḡammama, “to become covered”)
  • Verbal noun: تَغَمُّم (taḡammum)
  • Active participle: مُتَغَمِّم (mutaḡammim)
• Form VI: تَغَامَّ (taḡāmma), تَغَامَمَ (taḡāmama)
  • Verbal noun: تَغَامُم (taḡāmum)
  • Active participle: مُتَغَامّ (mutaḡāmm), مُتَغَامِم (mutaḡāmim)
• Form VII: اِنْغَمَّ (inḡamma, “to become filled with grief”)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْغِمَام (inḡimām)
  • Active participle: مُنْغَمّ (munḡamm)
• Form VIII: اِغْتَمَّ (iḡtamma, “to become filled with grief; to be tall”)
  • Verbal noun: اِغْتِمَام (iḡtimām)
  • Active participle: مُغْتَمّ (muḡtamm)

• غُمَّة (ḡumma, “mourn, sadness”)
• غِمَامَة (ḡimāma, “blinder; muzzle”); pl. غَمَائِم (ḡamāʔim)
• غَمَام (ḡamām, “clouds”)
• أَغَمّ (ʔaḡamm, “dense, shaggy”); f. غَمَّاء (ḡammāʔ)

References

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “غ م م”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 292–293
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “غ م م”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 2289–2291
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “غ م م”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 926