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nām‑ / nim‑ نامَ / نِمْـ , ā (nawm , niyām)

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√NWM

vb., I

to sleep, slumber; to go to bed; to go to sleep; to abate, subside, let up, calm down, be calm (wind, sea, etc.); to be inactive, dull, listless (market); to be benumbed, be numb (limb); to neglect, omit, overlook (ʕan s.th.), forget (ʕan about s.th.), fail to think of; to be reassured (ʔilà by s.th.), accept (ʔilà s.th.), assent (ʔilà to), acquiesce (ʔilà in); to place confidence (ʔilà in s.o.), trust (ʔilà s.th.) – WehrCowan1979.

▪ Kogan2011: from protWSem *nwm ‘to sleep’. – For another word, less common in Ar but a basic item in protSem, cf. ↗sinaẗ (< protSem *šin‑at‑) ‘sleep’.
▪ From WSem *nwm ‘to sleep’, Sem *nawim‑ ‘drowsy’, *nawm-at‑ ‘slumber’.

▪ eC7 (nawm) Q 2:255 lā taʔḫuḏuhū sinatun wa-lā-nawm ‘neither slumber nor sleep overtakes Him’; (manām) (act of sleeping) Q 30:23 wa-min ʔātāti-hi manāmu-kum bi’l-laylī wa’l-nahāri wa-’btiġāʔu-kum min faḍli-hī ‘His wonders [also] include your sleeping and seeking his bounty by night and by day’, (dream) Q 37:102 yā bunay-ya ʔinnī ʔarà fī ’l-manāmi ʔannī ʔaḏbaḥu-ka ‘my son, I have seen in the dream that I am slaying [sacrificing] you’; (nāʔim) Q 68:19 fa-ṭāfa ʕalayhā ṭāʔifun min rabbi-ka wa-hum nāʔimūna ‘a visitation from your Lord visited it while they were sleeping’

▪ Fronzaroli#2.11: Akk munattu ‘dream’,¹ Hbr nāmū ‘they slept’, Syr nām, Ar nāma (< *nawima), Gz nōma ‘to sleep’; Hbr nūmā, Syr nawmᵉtā, Ar nawmaẗ, Gz newām ‘slumber’.
▪ BDB1906: nûm, Aram nūm, Syr nām, Gz nōma ‘to be drowsy, slumber’.
▪ Zammit2002: Akk nāmu ‘to slumber’² (munattu ‘morning slumber’), Ug nhmmt ‘slumber’,³ Hbr nūm ‘to be drowsy, slumber’, Aram nūm ‘to slumber’ (namnēm ‘to be drowsy; to doze’), Syr nām ‘to sleep heavily, slumber’, Ar nawm, Gz newām ‘sleep’.
▪ Kogan2011: Ar nāma, Gz noma ‘to sleep’, Hbr Syr nām ‘to slumber’, ? Ug nhmmt ‘drowsiness’, ? Akk nu-ma-at ‘it (the forest) was still’.⁴

1. CAD: ‘waking, waking time’, pl. munāmātu. 2. Not in CAD! 3. Cf. Kogan’s critical note in DISC section. 4. For Akk munattu ‘waking time’, Morgendämmer(traum) see CAD, Zgoll 2006: 66-69. The etymology of SEthSem forms like Har ñēʔa, Amh täññä is discussed in CDG 394 and EDH 120.

▪ Fronzaroli#2.11: Sem *nawim‑ ‘drowsy’, *nawm-at‑ ‘slumber’.
▪ Kogan2011: Ar nāma, Gz noma ‘to sleep’ go back to WSem *nwm, preserved with the non-basic meaning ‘to slumber’ in Hbr and Syr and doubtfully attested in Ug nhmmt ‘drowsiness’ and Akk nu-ma-at ‘it (the forest) was still’.

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► nawwama, vb. II, to lull (s.o.) to sleep, make sleep, put to bed (esp., a child); to anesthetize, narcotize, put to sleep: caus.
► ʔanāma, vb. IV, = II: caus.
► tanāwama, vb. VI, to pretend to be asleep; to place confidence, put trust (ʔilà in s.o.):…
► ĭstanāma, vb. X, to let o.s. be lulled to sleep or narcotized (li‑ by s.th.); to accede (li‑ to s.th.), comply (li‑ with); to trust (ʔilà s.o.), have confidence (ʔilà in s.o.), rely, depend (ʔilà on s.o.); to entrust (bi‑ s.th. ʔilà to s.o.); to be reassured (ʔilà by s.th.), accept tacitly (ʔilà s.th.), acquiesce (ʔilà in s.th.), content o.s., be content (ʔilà with): requestative, tŠ-stem.
► ^BP#930nawm, n., sleep, slumber: vn. I | ġurfat al-~, n., bedroom; qamīṣ al-~, n., nightgown, nightshirt.
► nawmī, adj., of or pertaining to sleep, somn(i)-, sleeping- (in compounds): nsb-adj., from nawm.
► nawmaẗ, n.f., sleep, nap: n.un. of nawm.
► nuwamaẗ, n.f., one who sleeps much, sleeper: ints.
► nawwām, n., one given to sleep, sleeper: nominalized ints. adj.
► naʔūm, adj., sound asleep: ints.; n., one given to sleep, sleeper; late riser, slugabed: nominalization.
► ^BP#4877manām, n., sleep; (pl. ‑āt) dream:…
► ^BP#4877manām, n., place to sleep; bedroom, dormitory: n.loc.
► manāmaẗ, n.f., place to sleep; bedroom, dormitory: n.loc.; nightwear, nightgown, nightshirt: n.instr.; al-Manāmaẗ, Manama (capital of Bahrein Islands).
► tanwīm, n., lulling to sleep; narcotization, anesthetization; hypnotism, hypnosis: vn. II.
► ^BP#2214nāʔim, pl. niyām, nuwwam, nuyyam, nuwwām, nuyyām, adj., sleeping; asleep; numb, benumbed (limb); calm, tranquil, peaceful (night): PA I.
► munawwim, adj., sleep-inducing, somniferous, soporific; narcotic; hypnotist; (pl. ‑āt), n., a soporific, somnifacient: PA II | ǧurʕaẗ ~aẗ, n., soporific potion, sleeping draught, nightcap; dawāʔ ~, n., a soporific, somnifacient; ḥubūb ~aẗ, n.pl., sleeping pills.

NWN نون

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√NWN

“root”

▪ NWN_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ NWN_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ NWN_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘fish; a correct word, word of wisdom; inkpot, the letter nūn, enunciate the sound nūn. nūn meaning ‘fish’ is considered by some scholars to be of Syr origin’

▪ From protSem *nūn‑ ‘fish’ – Huehnergard2011.
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NWY نوي

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√NWY

“root”

▪ NWY_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ NWY_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ NWY_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘a fruit stone; home, to leave home; direction, intention, to intend, determine’

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NYL نيل

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√NYL

“root”

▪ NYL_1 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ NYL_2 ‘...’ ↗...
▪ NYL_3 ‘...’ ↗...

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘gift, a favour bestowed, a gracious act conferred, benefit; to obtain, enable to have, let have; to reach; to harm, bear upon, insult’

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hāʔ هاء

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R₁

The letter h of the Arabic alphabet.

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hārb , hā̆rb هارْب

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√HRB, HāRB

n.

harp (musical instrument) – WehrCowan1979.

Rolland2014a: from Engl harp or Fr harpe, from oEngl hearpe, from Germ *kharpon‑ .

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▪ Germ *harpon- (cognates: oSax harpa ‘instrument of torture’, oNor harpa, Du harp, oHG harpfa, G Harfe ‘harp’), of uncertain origin. lLat harpa, source of words in some Rom langs (It arpa, Span arpa, Fr harpe), is a borrowing from Germ – .

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Hāmān هامان

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√HāMāN, HMN

n.prop.

Hamān

▪ (BAH2008): (proper) noun occurring six times in the Qur’an. »It is considered to be a Copt borrowing related to the Egyptian God of Amon, most likely, according to Muḥammad Asad, the designation ‘Hā-Amen’ given to every high priest of the Egyptian god of Amon (not to be confused with Pers Haman of the Old Testament), or possibly, according to other commentators, it is a proper noun. [In the Qur’an, Hāmān is] either the name of the chief aid to Pharaoh or the title of the high priest in Egypt at the time of Moses (Est. III ff.) (Q 40:36) ‘and Pharaoh said, “Hāmān, build me a lofty tower”’«