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yamīn يَمِين (invar. for gender)
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ID 946 • Sw –/118 • BP 1327 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
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¹adj.; ²n.
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right, being on the right; right side; (f.) right hand – WehrCowan1979.
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▪ Kogan2011: from protSem *yamīn‑, *yamā̆n‑ ‘right hand (side)’.
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994: … < AfrAs *yamin‑ ‘right (side)’ (?).
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▪ DRS 10 (2012)#YMN: Akk imitt‑ ‘côté droit, main droite; aile droite (d’une armée)’, imn , Ebl i-me-tum /yimittum/ ‘droite’, Ug ymn ‘main droite, côté droit’, Hbr yāmīn ‘qui est à droite; sud’, EmpAram ymn, Nab Palm ymnynʔ, Syr Mand yamīnā ‘qui est à droite’, Ar yamīn ‘qui est à droite, côté droit; serment’, Liḥ ymn ‘qui est à droite’, Sab ymn ‘main droite’, ymnt ‘sud’, Qat ʔymnn adj. ‘ceux du sud’, Śḥr ĩn , Gz yamān, Tña yäman, Amh yämin ‘droite, main droite’.
▪ Bergsträsser1928: Akk imnu, Hbr yāmīn, Aram yammīn.ā, Gz yamā́n ‘right, right hand side’
▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#2578: Akk imnu, Ug ymn, Hbr yāmīn, Syr yāmināy, Gz yammān ‘right (hand)’. – Outside Sem: Berb mni, imna ‘direct’, and Eg (pyr) i͗mn ‘right (side)’.
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▪ Orel&Stolbova1994#2578: Sem *yamīn‑ ‘right (hand)’, Berb *(y˅)m˅n‑ (mni, imna) ‘direct’, Eg (pyr) i͗mn ‘right (side)’. The AfrAs origin may be *yamin ‘right (side)’.
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Engl Benjamin, from Hbr binyāmîn ‘son of the right hand’, from yāmîn ‘right (hand), south’,1 cf. Ar ↗yaman, ↗yamīn. – Engl Yemen, from Ar yaman ‘right side, south, Yemen’.↗
1. The Israelite tribal name binyāmîn should perh. instead be understood as the ‘southerner’ and to be compared to a people called ‘sons of the right/south’ in Akk texts of the time of Hammurabi.
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► yamana, u / yamina, a / yamuna, u (yumn, maymanaẗ), vb. I, to be lucky, fortunate:.
► yammana, vb. II, to go to the right:.
► tayammana, vb. V, and ĭstaymana, vb. X, to see a good omen:.

► yumn, n., good luck, good fortune, prosperity, success: vn. I.
► yaman and yamnaẗ, n.f., right side or hand:.
► al-yaman, n., f. and m., Yemen:
► BP#1689yamanī, adj., from or of Yemen, Yemenite: nsb-adj from al-yaman.
► yamānin, f. yamāniyaẗ, adj., Yemenite:.
► yamānī, adj., from or of Yemen, Yemenite: nsb-adj; (pl. ‑ūn a Yemenite: nominalized adj.
► yamīn, pl. ʔaymun, ʔaymān, n.f., oath:.
► yamīnī, adj., of or pertaining to the right side, right-hand, right; rightist, right-wing (pol.); al-yamīniyyūn the right-wing parties
► yumnā, pl. yumnayāt, n.f., right hand; right side:.
► BP#2322ʔaymanᵘ, f. yumnā, n., right-hand, right, on the right; lucky.
► maymanaẗ, pl. mayāminᵘ, n., right side; right wing (of an army): n.loc. (?).
► tayammun, n., auspiciousness, good augury, good omen: vn. V.
► maymūn, adj., pl. mayāmīnᵘ, adj., fortunate, lucky; blessed; n., monkey: PP I.
► muyamman, adj., lucky, auspicious: PP II.
► muyāmin, adj., standing on the right side (also pol.): PA III.

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