ḥukūmaẗ حُكومة , pl. ‑āt
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government – WehrCowan1979.
▪ ḥukūmaẗ is formed from ↗ḥakama ʻto govern’, which in itself seems to be based on the notion of ‘retaining, keeping tight control of s.th., fencing, curbing’, still present in ↗ḥakamaẗ ‘bit of a horse’s bridle; martingale’ or the meaning ‘to bridle, check, curb’, nowadays rather marginal, of ḥakama; the prob. earlier value is reflected also in ʔaḥkama, vb. IV, ‘to make firm, sturdy, solid; to strengthen, consolidate; to fortify; to do well, do expertly, master, be proficient’. – For further details cf. the entries just mentioned as well as root entry ↗√ḤKM.
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►BP#884ḥukūmī, adj., 1 of government, governmental; 2 official; 3 state-owned, statecontrolled, of the state, state- (in compounds): nisba formation.See also ↗ḥakama, ↗ʔaḥkama, ↗ḥakam, ↗ḥikmaẗ, ↗ḥakamaẗ, ↗ḥakīm, ↗maḥkamaẗ, ↗taḥakkum, and, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√ḤKM.
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