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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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QMR قمر 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√QMR 
“root” 
▪ QMR_1 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ QMR_2 ‘…’ ↗…

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘moon, moonlight; whiteness, greyness; to hunt; to win in gambling, to stake; to deceive’ 
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qamar قَمَر 
ID 711 • Sw 73 • BP 1081 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√QMR 
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▪ Kogan2011: of unclear etymology; protSem *war(i)ḫ‑ ‘moon’ is lost completely in Ar.
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QMS قمس  
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 22May2024
√QMS 
"root" 
▪ QMS_1 ‘depths of the sea; (pl.) mishaps, misfortunes, adversities’ ↗qawmas; ‘to dip, immerse, soak, steep’ ↗qamasa
▪ QMS_2 ‘dictionary’ ↗qāmūs
▪ QMS_3 ‘…’ ↗…  
▪ [gen] : via the form ʔuqyānūs ‘ocean’ borrowed from Grk Okeanós ‘Okeanos (god of the sea), Atlantic Ocean’, itself of unknown etymology – Rolland2014. The “root” is also given as ↗QWMS.
▪ [v1] : The vb. qamasa is prob. denom.
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▪ Engl ocean, »(c. 1300) occean, ‘the vast body of water on the surface of the globe’, from oFr occean ‘ocean’ (C12, modFr océan), from Lat oceanus, from Grk ōkeanos, the great river or sea surrounding the disk of the Earth (as opposed to the Mediterranean), a word of unknown origin; Beekes suggests it is pre-Grk. Personified as Oceanus, son of Uranus and Gaia and husband of Tethys« – etymonline.com.
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qamas- قَمَس , u, i (qams)  
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 22May2024
√QMS 
vb., I  
to dip, immerse, soak, steep (s.th. fī in) – WehrCowan1976  
▪ prob. denom. from ↗qawmas ‘depths of the sea’ (↗QWMS), having “dropped” the “root” cons. W. qawmas goes back, via the form ʔuqyānūs, to Grk Okeanós ‘Okeanos (god of the sea), Atlantic Ocean’, itself of unknown etymology – Rolland2014. – See also ↗qāmūs.
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Cf. ↗qawmas and ↗qāmūs.  
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