جمان

Arabic

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek ἡγουμένη (hēgouménē), at first passed as جُمِّنِيَا‎ (jumminiyā), جُمَّلِيّة‎ (jummaliyya), a name applied to leading ropes; though also connected to Persian ‎ (kamân, “anything bent”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /d͡ʒu.maːn/

Noun

جُمَان • (jumān) m (collective, singulative جُمَانَة‎ f (jumāna))

tassel, puff, a cord or belt garnished with beads and other jewellery, or other cable
pearls or other beads particularly if rowed in a cord

Declension

Declension of noun جُمَان (jumān)

Collective	basic collective triptote
Collective	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جُمَان jumān	الْجُمَان‎ al-jumān	جُمَان jumān
Nominative	جُمَانٌ jumānun	الْجُمَانُ‎ al-jumānu	جُمَانُ jumānu
Accusative	جُمَانًا‎ jumānan	الْجُمَانَ‎ al-jumāna	جُمَانَ jumāna
Genitive	جُمَانٍ jumānin	الْجُمَانِ‎ al-jumāni	جُمَانِ jumāni
Singulative	singulative triptote in ـَة (-a)
Singulative	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جُمَانَة‎ jumāna	الْجُمَانَة‎ al-jumāna	جُمَانَة‎ jumānat
Nominative	جُمَانَةٌ‎ jumānatun	الْجُمَانَةُ‎ al-jumānatu	جُمَانَةُ‎ jumānatu
Accusative	جُمَانَةً‎ jumānatan	الْجُمَانَةَ‎ al-jumānata	جُمَانَةَ‎ jumānata
Genitive	جُمَانَةٍ‎ jumānatin	الْجُمَانَةِ‎ al-jumānati	جُمَانَةِ‎ jumānati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جُمَانَتَيْن‎ jumānatayn	الْجُمَانَتَيْن‎ al-jumānatayn	جُمَانَتَيْ‎ jumānatay
Nominative	جُمَانَتَانِ‎ jumānatāni	الْجُمَانَتَانِ‎ al-jumānatāni	جُمَانَتَا‎ jumānatā
Accusative	جُمَانَتَيْنِ‎ jumānatayni	الْجُمَانَتَيْنِ‎ al-jumānatayni	جُمَانَتَيْ‎ jumānatay
Genitive	جُمَانَتَيْنِ‎ jumānatayni	الْجُمَانَتَيْنِ‎ al-jumānatayni	جُمَانَتَيْ‎ jumānatay
Paucal (3-10)	sound feminine paucal
Paucal (3-10)	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	جُمَانَات‎ jumānāt	الْجُمَانَات‎ al-jumānāt	جُمَانَات‎ jumānāt
Nominative	جُمَانَاتٌ‎ jumānātun	الْجُمَانَاتُ‎ al-jumānātu	جُمَانَاتُ‎ jumānātu
Accusative	جُمَانَاتٍ‎ jumānātin	الْجُمَانَاتِ‎ al-jumānāti	جُمَانَاتِ‎ jumānāti
Genitive	جُمَانَاتٍ‎ jumānātin	الْجُمَانَاتِ‎ al-jumānāti	جُمَانَاتِ‎ jumānāti

Descendants

Maltese: ġummiena
→ Italian: gomena, gumena, gomina, gumina
- → Albanian: gumenë
- → Catalan: gúmena, gómena, gúmana, gúmera
- → Dalmatian: gȕmina
  - → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: гу̀мина
    Latin script: gùmina
- → Middle French: gumene, gomene
  - French: gumène, goumène
- → Greek: γούμενα (goúmena)
- → Medieval Latin: gumena, gomena
- → Maltese: gumna
- → Occitan: guomino
- → Portuguese: gúmena
- → Spanish: gúmena, gómena
  - → Basque: gúmena
- → Ottoman Turkish: غومنه‎ (gomene, gomena, gumena, gomina, gomana), غومانه‎ (gomana), غومانا‎ (gomana), قومانا‎ (komana), قومانه‎ (komana), قومنه‎ (komena, komana), قمانه‎ (komana)
  - Turkish: gomina
- → Venetian: gómina

References

Agius, Dionisius A. (1996) Siculo Arabic, London: Kegan Paul International, page 260, who equates this and جُمّة‎ (jumma, “a collective mass of hair”)
Corriente, F. (1997), “jummaliyya”, in A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29), Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN
Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 285
Fennis, Jan (1995) Trésor du langage des galères. Dictionnaire exhaustif, avec une introduction, des dessins originaux de René Burlet et des planches de Jean-Antoine de Barras de la Penne, un relevé onomasiologique et une bibliographie (Lexicographica. Series Maior; 62) (in French), volume II, Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, →DOI, pages 1064–1066
Freytag, Georg (1830), “جمان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 308b
Kahane, Henry R.; Kahane, Renée; Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, pages 252–253, Nr. 332, not seeing the origin word.
Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “جمان”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 331a
Lane, Edward William (1863), “جمان”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 461c
Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “جمان”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, page 244a

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