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▪ In ClassAr lexicography, the word is explained as ‘plants with no stalk; graminaceous plant, herbs, herbage, quack\couch grass, quitch’ and usually derived from ↗naǧama ‘to appear’, as the plant simply “appears”, without stalk. This etymology may be true, but there is also conspicuous overlapping with ↗naǧīl, so that it may also be the result of a phonological-semantic confusion, due to a merging with the semantics of √NǦL.

hist

▪ <600 CE in a verse by the pre-Islamic poet al-Ḥāriṯ b. Ẓālim al-Murrī al-Ġaṭafānī – HDAL_200620.
▪ Then also ▪ eC7 (plants with no stalk, herbage – in one interpretation of Q 55:6) Q 55:6 wa’l-naǧmu wa’l-šaǧaru yasǧudāni ‘the plants and the trees prostrate (or, fall into the Grand Design)’ – BAH2008.
▪ In ClassAr also attested as ^†naǧmaẗ, ^†naǧamaẗ ‘dactylis repens, species of dog-grass’.

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disc

See above, section CONC.

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