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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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SMSM سمسم 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√SMSM 
“root” 
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▪ SMSM_2 ‘…’ ↗…
 
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▪ Engl sesame, sesamoid ↗simsim, ↗samn). 
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simsim سِمْسِم 
ID 418 • Sw – • BP??? • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√SMSM 
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl sesame, sesamoid, from Grk sēsamē, sēsamon, from a Sem source akin to Ug ššmn, Phoen ššmn, Aram šumšᵊmā, Ar simsim, all prob. from Akk šamaššammū ‘sesame’, back-formation from *šaman šammammī ‘oil of plants’, from šammī, gen.pl. of šammu ‘plant’ (šaman, bound form of šamnu ‘oil’; cf. Ar ↗samn). It is possible that the Akk form represents a folk etymology for an original form šamšamu, from a root *šmšm. 
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