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▪ Jeffery1938, 144-45: »The generally accepted opinion among the Muslim authorities is that it is a form fuʕlān from ↗√RMː (RMM) (cf. Rāghib, Mufradāt, 203), but some had considerable doubts about it as we see from LA, xv, 1 48; and Jawharī, sub voc. – Guidi, Della Sede, 582, noted it as a loan-word in Ar, and Fraenkel, Fremdw, 142, suggested that it was derived from the Syr rūmanā, the Ar form being built on the analogy of tuffāḥ. As the Eth [Gz] rōmān and the Phlv ideogram rōramnā or romanā,¹ are of Aram origin we may assume the same for Ar rummān, but the ultimate origin of the word is still uncertain.² It occurs in Hbr as רמון, in Aram רימונא and רומנא, as well as Mandaean רומאנא,³ but appears to be non-Semitic.⁴ Horovitz, Paradies, 9, thinks that if it is true that the pomegranate is a native of Socotra we may have to look in that direction for the origin of the word. It is, of course, possible that it is a pre-Semitic word taken over by the Semites. (See Laufer, Sino-Iranica, 285.)«
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#2122: From Sem *rimān‑ ‘granate’ < AfrAs *riman‑ ‘fruit’. If Eg rrm.t ‘fruit’ (NK) really is cognate, then it would show both assimilation of liquida and metathesis.

1. PPGl, 198; Frahang, Glossar, p. 105; and Nöldeke, Neue Beiträge, 42. 2. Löw, Aramäische Pflanzennamen, 310, says: »Etymologie dunkel," and see Zimmern, Akkad. Fremdw, 54. 3. Nöldeke, Mand. Gramm, 123; Lidzbarski, Mandäische Liturgien, p. 218. 4. Hommel, Aufsätze, 97 ff.; BDB, 941, "a foreign word of doubtful origin."

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► rummānaẗ, n.f., knob, pommel; (pl. ‑āt). | r. yadawiyyaẗ, n., hand grenade.

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