مقام

Noun of place from the verb قَامَ‎ (qāma, “to get up”), from the root ق و م‎ (q-w-m). Cognate with Hebrew מָקוֹם‎ (māqōm) and Phoenician 𐤌𐤒𐤌‎ (mqm).

• IPA^(key): /ma.qaːm/
  • (Gulf Arabic) IPA^(key): /məˈqaːm/
  • (Hejazi) IPA^(key): /ma.ɡaːm/
• Rhymes: -aːm

مَقَام • (maqām) m (plural مَقَامَات‎ (maqāmāt))

1. verbal noun of قَامَ‎ (qāma) (form I)
2. place, spot

   Synonym: مَكان‎ (makān)

3. situation
4. domicile
5. burial place

   Synonyms: مَرْقَد‎ (marqad), ضَرِيح‎ (ḍarīḥ), مَشْهَد‎ (mašhad), حَرَم‎ (ḥaram), مَزار‎ (mazār)

6. staying, halting, sojourn, dwelling
   • 17th century, al-Majlisi, quoting بشير بن جذلم (Bašīr ibn Jaḏlam), chapter 45, in بحار الأنوار‎ [Biḥār al-Anwār]‎:

     ‏يَا أَهْلَ يَثْرِبَ لَا مَقَامَ لَكُمْ بِهَا ... قُتِلَ الْحُسَيْنُ فَأَدْمُعِي مِدْرَارُ‎

     yā ʔahla yaṯriba lā maqāma lakum bihā ... qutila l-ḥusaynu faʔadmuʕī midrāru

     O people of Yathrib (i.e. Medina) you have no staying in it ... Husayn is killed thus my tears are overflowing

7. standing, station

   Synonym: مَنْزِلَة‎ (manzila)

8. office, rank, dignity
9. esteem, consideration
10. court (of a sovereign)
11. (music) tune, song
12. (music, countable) maqam (Arabic musical scale), tonality, mode, key

مُقَام • (muqām) m (plural مُقَامَات‎ (muqāmāt))

1. verbal noun of أَقَامَ‎ (ʔaqāma) (form IV)
2. noun of place of أَقَامَ‎ (ʔaqāma): residence

• → Azerbaijani: məqam, muğam
• → Indonesian: makam
• → Kazakh: мақам (maqam)
• → Classical Persian: مقام‎ (maqām, muqām)
  • → Assamese: মোকাম (mükam)
  • → Middle Bengali: মোকাম (mokam)
    • Bengali: মোকাম (mōkam)
  • → Gujarati: મુકામ (mukām)
  • → Old Hindi: मुकांम (mukā̃ma)
    • Hindustani:

      Hindi: मुक़ाम (muqām), मक़ाम (maqām)

      Urdu: مقَام‎

  • → Maithili: mokām

    Devanagari: मोकाम

    Tirhuta: 𑒧𑒽𑒏𑒰𑒧

  • → Marathi: मुक्काम (mukkām)
  • → Marwari:

    Devanagari: मुकांन (mukānn), मुकांम (mukāmm)

    Mahajani: 𑅬𑅒𑅕𑅧𑅧 (muknn), 𑅬𑅒𑅕𑅧𑅬 (muknm)

  • → Oriya: ମୁକାମ (mukamô)
  • → Old Punjabi: ਮੁਕਾਮੁ (mukāmu)
    • Punjabi: muqām

      Gurmukhi: ਮੁਕ਼ਾਮ

      Shahmukhi: مُقام‎

  • → Sindhi:

    Arabic: مُقامُ‎

    Devanagari: मुक़ामु

    Khudawadi: 𑋗𑋣𑊺𑋩𑋠𑋗𑋣 (muqāmu)

  • → Telugu: మకాము (makāmu)
  • → Uyghur: مۇقام‎ (muqam)
    • → Chinese: 木卡姆 (mùkǎmǔ)
• → Turkish: makam

(via plural form مَقَامَات‎ (maqāmāt), مُقَامَات‎ (muqāmāt)):

• → Azerbaijani: məqamat
• → Classical Persian: مقامات‎ (maqāmāt)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: मक़ामात (maqāmāt), मुक़ामात (muqāmāt)

    Urdu: مقامات‎

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “مقام”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “قام (قوم)‎”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN