نعماء

Arabic

Noun

نَعْماء • (naʕmāʔ) ? (plural أَنْعُم (ʔanʕum))

1. grace, kindness
2. ease, comfort, prosperity
3. wealth

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: nəʼma
• → Ottoman Turkish: نعماء (na'ma)
• → Middle Armenian: Նամէ (Namē)

Ottoman Turkish

Alternative forms

• نعما (na'ma)

Etymology

From Arabic نَعْماء (naʕmāʔ).

Noun

نعماء • (na’ma)

1. blessing, abundance
2. welfare
3. gift, present

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “na’ma”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3486a
• Karapetean, Petros Zēkʻi (1912) “نعماء”, in Mec baṙaran ōsmanerēnē hayerēn [Great Ottoman–Armenian Dictionary], Constantinople: Aršak Karōean, page 900a
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “نعما”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 2090
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN