ID 234 • Sw – • BP 4631 • APD … • © SG | 25Feb2021
√ḤMD
to praise, commend, laud, extol (ʕalà s.o. for, s.th.) – WehrCowan1976.
▪ From protCSem *√ḤMD ‘to be pleasant, desirable’ (Kogan2015, 210 #9; Huehnergard2011: ‘to desire, delight in, praise’).
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▪ DRS 9 (2010) #ḤMD-1 Ug ḥmd ‘convoiter, désirer’, Phoen ḥmd, Hbr ḥāmad ‘désirer, tendre à; prendre du plaisir à’, JP ḥᵃmad ‘désirer’; Soq ḥéməd ‘aimer’. – ? 2 Ar ḥamida, Sab ḥmd, Mhr ḥəmūd, ḥáyməd ‘remercier, louer’, Jib ḥõd, Ḥrs šḥəmōd ‘remercier’, Ar Mhr Ḥrs Jib ḥamd ‘louange’.
▪ Kogan2015 210 #9: Ug ḥmd ‘to desire’, mḥmd ‘desirable, precious object’, Hbr ḥmd ‘to desire, take pleasure in’, ḥämäd ‘loveliness, beauty’, ḥämdā ‘desirable, precious things’, JudPalAram ḥmd ‘to desire, covet’, Ar ḥmd ‘to praise’, Sab ḥmd ‘to praise, thank’.
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▪ Kogan2015 210 #9: »The origin of protCSem *ḥmd ‘to be pleasant, desirable’ is unknown. Note that the semantic diversity within CSem is considerable (the meaning ‘to praise’, characteristic of Ar and Sab, is presumably declarative with respect to the more original ‘to be desirable’ = ‘to be praiseworthy’). Almost certainly borrowed from Ar are Te ḥammädä ‘to praise, thank’, Mhr ḥəmūd ‘to thank, praise’, Jib ḥod ‘to thank’, Soq ḥéməd ‘aimer’ .
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl Muhammad, from Ar muḥammad ‘praised, commendable’, PP of ḥammada, vb. II, ‘to praise highly’, D-stem (denom./ints.) of ḥamida, vb. I, ‘to praise, extol’.
►ḥammada, vb. II, to praise highly (s.o.): D-stem, ints.►BP#296ḥamd, n., commendation, praise, laudation: vn. I | al-ḥamdu lillāh, expr., thank God! praise be to God! Praised be the Lord!
►BP#4456ḥamīd, adj., praiseworthy, laudable, commendable; 2 benign, harmless (disease): ints., quasi-PP I.
►ḥamūd, adj., praiseworthy, laudable, commendable, praised: ints., quasi-PP I.
►ʔaḥmadᵘ, adj., more laudable , more commendable: elat. formation.
►al-šarīʕaẗ al-aḥmadiyyaẗ, n.f., Mohammedan Law: nsb-formation of the preceding.
►maḥmadaẗ, pl. maḥāmidᵘ, n.f., 1 commendable act; 2 pl., praises, encomiums:
►maḥmūd, adj., 1 praised; 2 commendable, laudable, praiseworthy: PP I.
►muḥammad, adj., 1 praised; 2 commendable, laudable: PP II.
►muḥammadī, adj., pertaining or attributable to Mohammed: nsb-adj of preceding item.
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