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ʕLM علم
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ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√ʕLM
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▪ ʕLM_1 ‘knowledge; to know; knowing, scholar’ ↗ʕilm, ↗ʕalima, ↗ʕālim
▪ ʕLM_2 ‘sign, token; flag; eminent personality, authority’ ↗ʕalam
▪ ʕLM_3 ‘tender (adj.); well with abundant water’ ↗ʕaylam
▪ ʕLM_4 ‘singer, chanteuse, belly dancer’ ↗ʕālimaẗ
▪ ʕLM_5 ‘world, universe’ ↗ʕālam

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘mountain, landmark, mark, flag; a notch, slit, harelip; to mark; to know, learn, be acquainted, to inform, knowledge, learning, cognition and a learned person; the world, the universe’. – It has been suggested by some scholars that the word ʕālam, meaning the world or the universe, which philologists derive from this root, is a very early borrowing from either Hbr or Syr.
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▪ Ar root √ʕLM ‘to know’ – Huehnergard2011.
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▪ Engl ulema ↗ʕālim.
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