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naǧmaẗ نَجْمَة , pl. naǧamāt, nuǧūm
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ID 849 • Sw 74/152 • BP 3363 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√NǦM
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n.f.f., n.un.
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1 star; 2 asterisk (typ.) – WehrCowan1979; 3 (EgAr) a jinx – BadawiHinds1986.
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▪ Morphologically, naǧmaẗ is a singulative (n.un.), signifying either a single, specific star (from the collective ↗¹naǧm ‘stars’) or one incident of ‘rising, appearing’ (from the vn. naǧm of the vb. ↗naǧama ‘to appear, come in sight’).
▪ [v2] is a neologism.
▪ [v3]: EgAr distinguishes between ni gmaẗ ‘star’ and nagmaẗ ‘jinx’ (corresponding vb.: nagam, i, ‘to jinx, put the evil eye on s.o.’, as in dōl nās wiḥšīn nagamū-na w-ḥasadū-na ‘they are bad people, they’ve jinxed us and put the evil eye on us’ – BadawiHinds1986).
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▪ BadawiHinds1986 distinguishes 2 roots: »¹NGM« (comprising ni gmaẗ ‘star’, na gmaẗ ‘jinx’, and nagam ‘to jinx’) and »²NGM« (containing only mangam ‘mine, pit’). Etymologically, however, this distinction does not make sense, as also ‘mine, pit’ (originally, *‘place where s.th., e.g., metal ore etc., appears’) is based on the same ↗naǧama ‘to appear, come in sight’ are also ¹naǧm and naǧmaẗ (*‘the rising, appearing one’).
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► naǧmaẗ sīnamāʔiyyaẗ, n.f., film star, movie star: neol.
► naǧmaẗ raqṣ, n.f., ballet star: neol.
► maraḍ al-naǧmaẗ, n.f., a disease afflicting horses: prob. so called after the macula appearing on the sick animal’s skin, cf. LevAr †naǧmaẗ ‘blaze (i.e., a *star) on a beast’ – Hava1899.
► (M) naǧmaẗ al-baḥr, n.f., starfish, sea star: original Ar, or a calque?
► (M) naǧmaẗ al-ṣabāḥ, n.f., morning glory (bot.) : original Ar, or a calque?

 ► manǧūm, adj., starred; marked with a star or asterisk: neol., PP I from a hypothetical *naǧama ‘to mark with a star or asterisk’, denominal from naǧmaẗ.

For other derivatives, see ↗¹naǧm. – For other items of the root, see ↗naǧama, ↗¹naǧǧama, ↗²naǧǧama, ↗¹naǧm, ↗²naǧm, ↗³naǧm, ↗¹manǧam, ↗²manǧam, ↗manǧim, ↗†minǧam, (AlgAr) ↗naǧām, and, for the whole picture, root entry ↗√NǦM.
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