ḥamaš‑ حَمَشَ , u (ḥamš, ḥamšaẗ)
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√ḤMŠ
to excite, irritate, infuriate, enrage – WehrCowan1976.
▪ The root ↗√ḤMŠ exhibits 3-4 distinct values between which no obvious relation is discernible (apart from ʻto excite, irritate, infuriate, enrage; to roast, fry’ there is also ʻthin, thin-legged’ (see ↗ḥamšaẗ ʻcatgut’), ʻto collect’, and – prob. via metathesis from ↗ŠḤM – also ʻfat’. With the first three, the root does not seem to have any cognates in Sem.
▪ The etymology of ḥamaša therefore has to remain unclear. Perh., however , the word is related to ↗√ḤMS and/or ↗√ḤMṢ in the sense of ʻto roast, fry’.
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▪ [v1] : cf. also †ḥamaša u (ḥamš, ḥamšaẗ), ʻto become angry (man); to become hot (war)’; †ḥammaša, vb. II, ʻto stir, anger s.o.; to put fuel (in the fire); to rouse (people)’; †taḥammaša, vb. V, and ĭstaḥmaša, vb. X, ʻto be angered’.
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▪ DRS 9 (2010) #ḤMŚ-1 Ar ḥamiša ʻêtre en colère’, ḥamaša ʻirriter, exciter’, ʔaḥmaša ʻattiser (le feu), faire bouillir’, EgAr ḥamaš ʻroussir, brûler (trans.)’. -2-3 […].
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▪ See above, section CONC.
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For other items of the root, see ↗ḥamšaẗ and, for the overall picture, root entry ↗√ḤMŠ.
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