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▪ eC7 1 (people, nation, community) Q 35:24 wa‑ʔin min ʔummaẗin ʔillā ḫalā fīhā naḏīrun ‘there has not been a community, but came to it [lit., passed away in it] a warner’; 2 (party, category of people) Q 3:104 wa‑l‑takun minkum ʔummaẗun yadʕūna ʔilà ’l‑ḫayri ‘let there be a community from among you [also interpreted as: let zou all turn out to be a community] that calls to goodness’; 3 (crowd) Q 28:23 wa‑lammā warada māʔa Madyana waǧada ʕalayhi ʔummaẗan min‑a ’l‑nāsi yasqūna ‘and when he arrived at the water of Midian, he found a crowd of people watering [their flocks]’; 4 (common belief, tradition) Q 43:22 bal qālū ʔinnā waǧadnā ʔābāʔanā ʕalà ʔummaẗin wa‑ʔinnā ʕalà ʔāṯārihim muhtadūna ‘no indeed!, they say, “We saw our fathers following this common belief; we are guided by their footsteps”’; 5 (period of time) Q 12:45 wa‑qāla ’llaḏī naǧā minhumā wa‑’ddakara baʕda ʔummaẗin ‘then the one who gained freedom of the two, remembering [Joseph] after a while, said’; 6 (fixed, determined time) Q 11:8 wa‑la‑ʔin ʔaḫḫarnā ʕanhum‑u ’l‑ʕaḏāba ʔilā ʔummaẗin maʕdūdaẗin ‘if We delay the chastisement till a determined point in time’; 7 (organised society) Q 6:38 wa‑mā min dābbatin fī ’l‑ʔarḍi wa‑lā ṭayrin yaṭīru bi‑ǧanāḥayhi ʔillā ʔumamun ʔamṯālukum ‘[there are] no creatures in the earth, nor birds that fly with their two wings, but [that they are] [organised] communities like yourselves’; 8 (epitome of Godliness, a man alone, one of a kind) Q 16:120 ʔinna ʔIbrāhīma kāna ʔummaẗan ‘Abraham was truly an example, an epitome of godniness’.

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▪ Jeffery 1938: »Apparently a borrowing from the Jews.¹ Hbr אםה is a tribe, or people, and the אוםה of the Rabbinic writings was widely used. As the word is apparently not a native Sem word at all, but Akk ummatu; Hbr אםה; Aram אוםא, אוםתא; and Syr ʔūmṯā seem all to have been borrowed from the Sum,² we cannot deny the possibility that the Ar ʔummaẗ is a primitive borrowing from the same source. In any case it was an ancient borrowing, and if we can depend upon a reading בכש האםת ‘at the people’s costʼ in a Safaite inscription,³ we have evidence of its early use in NArabia.«
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1. Horovitz, KU, 52; JPN, 190. 2. Zimmern, Akkad. Fremdw, 46; Pedersen, Israel, 505. 3. See Horovitz, KU, 52.

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► ʔummaẗ Muḥammad, n.f., Mohammed’s community, the Mohammedans
► al-ʔumam al-muttaḥidaẗ, n.pl.f., the United Nations

► ʔammama, vb. II, 1 to nationalize; 2 to dispossess (private property, in a socialist economic system) : denom.

► ʔummī, adj., 1 ↗ʔumm; 2 adj., illiterate, uneducated; n., (pl. -ūn) an illiterate: nisba formation.
► ^BP#3833ʔummiyyaẗ, n.f., 1 ignorance; 2 illiteracy: abstract formation in iyyaẗ; 3 ↗ʔumawī.
► ʔumamī, adj., 1 international; 2 UNO (in compounds) : nsb-formation from ʔumam, pl. of ʔummaẗ | al-hayʔaẗ al-ʔumamiyyaẗ, al-munaẓẓamaẗ al-ʔumamiyyaẗ, n.f., the United Nations Organization, UNO.
► ʔumamiyyaẗ, n.f., Internationale (as federation of socialist parties): abstr. formation in -iyyaẗ, from ʔumam, pl. of ʔummaẗ.
► taʔmīm, n., nationalization: vn. II.

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