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SMQ سمق 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021, last updated 19Mar2023
√SMQ 
“root” 
▪ SMQ_1 ‘(to be) very high, towering, tall’ ↗samaqa
▪ SMQ_2 ‘sumac (Rhus; bot.)’ ↗summāq

Other values, now obsolete, include (BK1860, Hava1899):

SMQ_3 ‘pure, mere | pur, franc, sans mélange’: sumāq (esp. fig., kiḏb sumāq ‘mere lie’)
SMQ_4 ‘yoke | pièce de bois qui forme le joug des bœufs’: samīqāni (du.)
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▪ [v2] : from Aram sūmaq, summāq, Syr sûmāqā ‘blood-red, dark red, reddish, ruddy; red lentil, red pottage; red\purple dye, rouge, metaph. disguise; red ink, minium; ruby, sard; rhus coraria, sumach’, smaq ‘to be red, turn red’ (PayneSmith1903). – Lokotsch1927 #1946 also considers internal dependence on [v1], i.e., the sumac tree as the *‘high, beautifully-grown tree’.
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▪ [v2] Engl sumac, var. sumach, Fr sumac, etc. ↗summāq
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samaq‑ سَمَقَ , u (sumūq
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 19Mar2023
√SMQ 
vb., I 
to be high, tall, lofty, tower up – WehrCowan1976
 
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samūq, adj., very high, towering; tall and lanky
sāmiq, adj., very high, lofty, towering

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗summāq as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗SMQ.
 
summāq سُمّاق 
ID 420 • Sw – • BP??? • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021, last updated 19Mar2023
√SMQ 
n. 
1a sumac (Rhus; bot.); b its highly acid seeds which, after being dried and ground, serve, together with thyme, as a condiment – WehrCowan1976
 
▪ From Aram sūmaq, summāq, Syr sûmāqā ‘blood-red, dark red, reddish, ruddy; red lentil, red pottage; red\purple dye, rouge, metaph. disguise; red ink, minium; ruby, sard; rhus coraria, sumach’, smaq ‘to be red, turn red’ (PayneSmith1903). – Lokotsch1927 #1946 would also consider internal dependence on [v1], i.e., the sumac tree as the *‘high, beautifully-grown tree’.
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl sumac, from Ar summāq ‘sumac’, from Aram summāq ‘dark red’, from sᵊmeq ‘to be(come) red’.
▪ Engl sumac, also sumach (c. 1300), »preparation of dried, chopped leaves of a plant of the genus Rhus (used in tanning and dyeing and as an astringent), from oFr sumac (C13), from mLat sumach, from Ar summāq, from Syr summāqā ‘red’. Of the tree itself from 1540s; later applied to a NAmer plant species« – EtymOnline. – Fr sumac, (1256 somac, lC13 sumac), borrowing, perh. via Sp zumaque (attested from C10 in Lat texts), from Ar summāq ‘sumac’ – CNRTL-TLFi. – The word is found also in many other Eur languages, cf. It sommaco, Span zumaque, Port summagre, Rum sumac, Russ sumaḫ, Du smak, Ge Schmack, Sumach (Lokotsch1927), as well as in Tu sumak (1410, NişanyanSözlüğü_27Sept2022).
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summāqī: ḥaǧar summāqī, n., porphyry

For other values attached to the root, cf. ↗samaqa as well as, for the overall picture, root entry ↗SMQ. 
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