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▪ Kogan2011: from protWSem *ʕamm‑ ‘relatives, clan, people’, which in Ar specialized into ‘paternal uncle’. – ProtWSem *dād‑ ‘paternal uncle’ (preserved in Hbr, Syr, modSAr, Gz) has left no trace in Ar.
▪ ? Or: A semantic extension from this WSem *ʕamm- ‘kinsman, grandfather, ancestor’ is usually believed to be CSem *ʕamm- ‘people’, cf. Ar ↗ʕamma, ↗ʕāmm, ↗ʕāmmaẗ.
▪ Is perhaps also ↗ʕimāmaẗ ‘turban’ related? Further research needed.

hist

▪ eC7 ʕamm (paternal uncle) Q 33:50 wa-banāti ʕammi-ka ‘and the daughters of your paternal uncle’. – ʕammaẗ (paternal aunt) Q 4:23 ḥurrimat ʕalay-kum ʔummahātu-kum wa-banātu-kum wa-ʔaḫawātu-kum wa-ʕammātu-kum ‘forbidden to you [as wives] are your mothers, daughters, sisters, paternal aunts▪ …’

cogn

▪ ʕMː (ʕMM)_1 : (Kogan2015) Ug ʕm ‘kinsfolk’, Hbr ʕam ‘kinsman (on father’s side)’, Syr ʕamtā (f.) ‘paternal aunt’, Ar ʕamm ‘paternal uncle’, Sab ʕm, Min ʕm, Ḥaḍ ʕm ‘uncle’, Te ʕammät (f.) ‘paternal aunt’, Mhr ʔōm, f. ʔāmēt, Jib ʕom, f. aʕĩt ‘grandfather, f. -mother’
▪ For the wider context cf. ↗ʕMː (ʕMM) and/or the cognates given s.v. ↗ʕamma.

disc

▪ See above, section CONC.

west

▪ Not from Ar ʕamm but from related terms in Sem are several Biblical names: Engl Jeroboam, from Hbr yārobʕām ‘the (divine) kinsman increased’ (yārob ‘he increased’; √RBB); Rehoboam, from Hbr rəḥabʕām ‘the (divine) kinsman has increased’ (rəḥab ‘he has increased’; see √RḤB); both from Hbr ʕām ‘people, clan’ (earlier also ‘kinsman’). – Ammonite, from Hbr ʕammônî ‘Ammonite’, from ʕammôn ‘Ammon’, perh. from Can *ʕamm ‘paternal kinsman, kin’. – Hammurabi, from Akk ḫammurāpi, from Amor *ʕammu-rāpiʔ ‘the (divine) kinsman (is) a healer’, from *ʕammu ‘kinsman’ (*rāpiʔ ‘healer’; √RPʔ > Ar RFʔ). – ? Cf. also: Engl umma, from Ar ↗ʔummaẗ ‘nation, people, community’, from Aram ʔumməṯā, from Akk ummatu ‘troop’, prob. from earlier *ʕammatum, f. of *ʕamm ‘paternal kinsman’ – Huehnergard2011.

deriv

► ibn al-ʕamm, n., 1 cousin on the father’s side; 2 periphrastically for husband
► bint/ĭbnaẗ al-ʕamm, n.f., 1 female cousin on the father’s side; 2 periphrastically for wife
► yā ʕamm-ī, exclam., uncle! old boy! (friendly address for older men of simple status)
► al-ʕamm Murād, “uncle” Murad, good old Murad

► ʕammaẗ, pl. -āt, n.f., paternal aunt: f. of ʕamm.
► ʕumūmaẗ, n.f., 1 uncleship, unclehood: abstr. formation; 2 pl. of ʕamm.

For other values attached to the same root, cf. ↗ʕamma, ↗ʕimāmaẗ, ↗ʕāmmiyyaẗ, and, for the whole picture, ↗ʕMː (ʕMM).

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