שום

Aramaic

Noun

שום • (šum)

  1. singular construct state of שְׁמָא‎ (šəmā)

Hebrew

Etymology 1

See under שָׂם‎ (sám).

Verb

שׂוּם • (sum) or שׂוֹם • (som)

  1. bare infinitive of שָׂם‎ (sam)
    • Jeremiah 42:15, with translation of the English Standard Version:
      אִם אַתֶּם שׂוֹם תְּשִׂמוּן פְּנֵיכֶם לָבֹא מִצְרַיִם
      im atém som t'simún p'nechém lavó mitsráyim
      If you set your faces to enter Egypt
    • Haggai 2:15, with Young's Literal Translation:
      מִטֶּרֶם שׂוּם אֶבֶן אֶל אֶבֶן בְּהֵיכַל יהוה
      mitérem sum éven el éven b'hechál YHVH
      Before the laying of stone to stone in the temple of Jehovah
Further reading

Etymology 2

From Aramaic שֻׁם‎ (šum), indefinite and construct form of שְׁמָא‎ (š'mā, “name”). The determiner is an extension of the noun.

Determiner

שׁוּם • (shúm)

  1. Some, any; found chiefly in negative contexts, as well as questions and conditional constructs.
    ‏שום דבר לא קרה.‎‎ ― shúm davár ló kará. ― Nothing happened.
    ‏לא […] בשום צורה שהיא‎ ― ló […] b'shúm tsurá shehí ― not […] in any way
    ‏אין לי שום בעיה עם זה.‎‎ ― éin lí shúm b'ayá ím zé. ― I don't have any problem with that.
Derived terms
  • בשום אופן‎ (b'shúm-ófen), בשום עניין ואופן‎ (b'shúm inyán va'ófen), בשום פנים‎ (b'shúm paním), בשום פנים ואופן‎ (b'shúm paním va'ófen)
  • שום דבר‎ (shum davár)

Noun

שׁוּם • (shum)

  1. Name, sake, purpose, cause; found exclusively, or nearly so, in various fixed expressions.
Derived terms
  • לְשׁוּם‎ (l'shúm)
  • מִשּׁוּם‎ (mishúm), מִשּׁוּם מַה‎ (mishúm ma), מִשּׁוּם שֶׁ־‎ (mishúm she-)
  • עַל שׁוּם מַה‎ (al shum ma), עַל שׁוּם‎ (al shum)

Etymology 3

Root
שׁ־ו־ם‎ (š-w-m)

From Proto-Semitic *ṯūm-; cognate with Akkadian 𒋧 (šūmū), Aramaic תּוּמָא‎ (tūmā), Arabic ثُوم‎ (ṯūm).

Noun

שׁוּם • (shum) m

  1. garlic

References

Further reading

Anagrams

Yiddish

Etymology

From Hebrew שׁוּם‎ (“some, any (in negative contexts)”), from Aramaic שֻׁם‎.

Adverb

שום • (shum)

  1. not at all (intensifies a negative construction)
    ‏איך האָב נישט קיין שום רויז!‎‎
    ikh hob nisht keyn shum royz!
    I don't have a single rose!
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