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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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√NʕM 
“root” 
▪ NʕM_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ NʕM_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ NʕM_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘cattle, ostrich; bounty, blessings, grace, good living, to enjoy life, to bestow favours; to flourish, become verdant; to be soft and smooth’ 
▪ From CSem *√NʕM ‘to be(come) pleasant, agreeable’ – Huehnergard2011.
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▪ 1 Engl personal name Naomi, from Hbr noʕŏmî ‘my delight’, from nōʕam ‘delight, delightfulness’, from nāʕēm ‘to be(come) pleasant, delightful’; 2 Engl anemone, perh. a folk-etymological alteration (influenced by Grk anemos ‘wind’) of an epithet of Adonis (the anemone having sprung from Adonis’s blood in Grk myth), from Phoen *hannaʕmon ‘the pleasant one’, akin to Hbr naʕămān, a man’s name (lit. ‘pleasantness’), and naʕămānîm, a word describing a garden in Isaiah 17:10, perh. a distortion of an epithet of Adonis. The Phoen and Hbr words are cognate to Ar ↗niʕmaẗ, ↗naʕam, etc., see ↗√NʕM. 
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