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√NǦM
1 ↗¹naǧm; 2 instalment, partial payment; 3 ↗³naǧm, ↗naǧīl – WehrCowan1979.
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▪ The value ‘instalment, partial payment’ is derived from ‘payment due at an appointed term’, from ‘term (date/time) of the rising of a star, to be known by observation of the stars (↗¹naǧǧama)’, from ¹naǧm ‘star’.
▪ <687 CE in a statement by Ibn ʕAbbās, saying ʔunzila ’l-qurʔānu ʔilà samāʔi ’l-dunyā ǧumlaẗan wāḥidaẗan ṯumma ʔunzila ʔilà ’l-ʔarḍi nuǧūman ‘the Qur’an was sent down to the world’s heaven as one whole, then it was sent down to earth in instalments’ – HDAL_200620.
▪ See above, section CONC.
► nuǧūman, adv., in instalments: ḥāl‑acc., pl., indicating mode of payment ► naǧǧama, vb. II, 1 ↗¹naǧǧama; 2 to pay in instalments: D-stem, denom. ► naǧmī, adj., 1 ↗¹naǧm; 2 in instalments, instalment‑ (in compounds): nisba formation. For other items of the root, see ↗naǧama, ↗¹naǧǧama, ↗¹naǧm, ↗³naǧm, ↗naǧmaẗ, ↗¹manǧam, ↗²manǧam, ↗manǧim, ↗†minǧam, (AlgAr) ↗naǧām, and, for the whole picture, root entry ↗√NǦM.
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