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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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NMR نمر 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√NMR 
“root” 
▪ NMR_1 ‘to become angry; leopard; speck, spot’ ↗nimr, ↗numraẗ
▪ NMR_2 ‘clean, pure’ ↗namir
▪ NMR_3 ‘number’ ↗nimraẗ
▪ NMR_ ‘…’ ↗…
 
▪ NMR_1 : from protSem *namir‑ ‘leopard’ < AfrAs *numur‑ or *nurum‑ ‘leopard; hyaena’ (orig. prob. *‘the spotted one’) – Orel&Stolbova1994#1886.
▪ NMR_2 : …
▪ NMR_3 : (var. numraẗ) from Ital numero
 
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▪ Any connection with ↗nimr / ²namir ‘leopard, panther’ and ↗¹namir ‘clean, pure, healthy, wholesome’?
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nimr نِمْر , var. namir, pl. numur, ʔanmār, numūr 
ID … • Sw – • BP 6447 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√NMR 
n. 
panther, leopard – WehrCowan1976. 
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#1886: from protSem *namir‑ ‘leopard’ < AfrAs *numur‑ or *nurum‑ ‘leopard; hyaena’ (orig. prob. *‘the spotted one’).
▪ Any connection with ↗¹namir ‘clean, pure, healthy, wholesome’?
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▪ Bergsträsser1928: (*‘panther, leopard’) Akk nimru, Hbr nāmēr, Syr nemrā, Gz namr.
 
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#1886: Together with Akk nimrᵘ, Hbr nāmēr, Syr nemrā, Gz namr, Hss nemr, the Ar word goes back to protSem *namir‑ ‘leopard’. Given the fact that three WCh languages have the word murum (< WCh *murum‑), which could be COGNates (with assimilation of nasals & metathesis), for ‘hyaena’, one could assume AfrAs *numur‑ as a possible ancestor (alternatively *nurum‑, in which case the Sem, not the Ch form would show metathesis). A possible explanation for the fact that the word signifies ‘leopard’ in Sem, but ‘hyaena’ in Chad, would be that originally it just meant *‘the spotted one’, see ↗numraẗ below, in section DERIV.
▪ Any connection with ↗¹namir ‘clean, pure, healthy, wholesome’?
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►tanammara, vb. V, to become angry, furious, turn into a tiger: DT-stem, denom.

►numraẗ, pl. numar, n.f., speck, spot: perh. the etymon proper.
►ʔanmarᵘ, f. namrāʔᵘ, pl. numr, adj., spotted, speckled: ʔaFʕaLᵘ formation for colours and body dysfunctions.
►munammar, adj., spotted, striped, brindled: PP II.
 
namir نَمِر 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√NMR 
adj. 
clean, pure, healthy, wholesome (esp., water) – WehrCowan1976. 
▪ Any connection with ↗nimr / ²namir ‘leopard, panther’ ?
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▪ Any connection with ↗nimr / ²namir ‘leopard, panther’ ?
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numraẗ نُمْرة , pl. numar 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√NMR 
n.f. 
1 speck, spot; 2 ↗nimraẗ – WehrCowan1976. 
▪ Perh. the etymon proper of the complex treated sub ↗nimr ‘panther, leopard’.
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Cf. perh. ↗nimr. 
See above, section CONC. 
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►ʔanmarᵘ, f. namrāʔᵘ, pl. numr, adj., spotted, speckled: ʔaFʕaLᵘ formation for colours and body dysfunctions.
►munammar, adj., spotted, striped, brindled: PP II.

Cf. perh. also ↗nimr ‘panther, leopard’ (< *‘the speckled one’?).

For the loanword numraẗ ‘number’ cf. s.v. ↗nimraẗ. 
nimraẗ نِمْرة , var. numraẗ (نُمْرة , also plene نومرة), pl. nimar, numar 
ID … • Sw – • BP … • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√NMR 
n.f. 
1 number, numero; 2 figure – WehrCowan1979. 
▪ From Ital numero, from Lat numerus ‘number’.
 
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See WEST. 
See CONC. 
▪ Not from Ar nimraẗ ~ numraẗ, but ultimately from the same source is Engl number: c. 1300 ‘sum, aggregate of a collection’, from AngloFr noumbre, oFr nombre and directly from Lat numerus ‘a number, quantity’, from protIE root *nem- ‘to assign, allot; to take’.
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►nimraẗ wāḥid, expr., first-class, first-rate, A-1, excellent

 ►nammara, vb. II, to mark with number, to number, provide with a number: D-stem, denom.
►tanammara, vb. V, to be numbered: Dt-stem, denom., intr.

►nammāraẗ, pl. -āt, n.f., numberer, numbering machine, date stamp: quasi-PA, ints.f.
►tanmīr, n., numbering, numeration, count: vn. II.
►munammar, adj., numbered, counted: PP II.
 
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