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1 support; 2a head, chief; 2b leading personality (in a cultural field); 2c dean (of a faculty); 2d director (of a college or academy); 2e doyen, dean (as, of a diplomatic oorps); 3 high commissioner (also al‑ʕamīd al‑sāmī), resident general; 4 brigadier general (Eg, Syr, Irq, etc.); colonel (Leb); (formerly, Irq) general, (formerly, Eg) lieutenant colonel – WehrCowan1976.

conc

▪ ʕamīd is a quasi-PP from ʕamada, vb. I, ‘to support, prop, shore, buttress’ (itself perh. denom. from ↗ʕamūd ‘pole, pillar, beam’) and means as such a person like a “pillar” or “pole” that bears the structure of a “building” and can be relied upon and/or serve as a model for others. From the general meaning of a supporting “pillar” are several derived values such as [v2a-e] (in the cultural field, and for civilians), [v3] (in international politics), or [v4] (in the military).
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cogn

No direct cognates in other Sem langs, but ultimately from, or akin to, ↗ʕamūd.

disc

See above, section CONC.

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deriv

►ʕamīd ʔawwal, n., brigadier general (Leb)
►ʕamīd al-ʔadab al‑ʕarabī, n., the foremost representative of Arabic literature
►ʕamīd al-ʕāʔilaẗ, n., head of the family.

►ʕimādaẗ, n.f., office of dean, deanship; (also ʕamādaẗ) office of the dean (university)
►ʕamīdaẗ, n.f., dean (f.); directress: quasi-PP I, f.

For other meanings of the root, cf. ↗ʕamada, ↗ʕammada, ↗ʕamūd, ↗ʕumdaẗ, as well as, for the overall picture, ↗√ʕMD.

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