ن ظ م

See also: نظم

Arabic

Etymology

Prefixed from ض م م (ḍ-m-m).[1] Attribution of نِظَام (niẓām, order; a kind of rope on which beads are rowed) to ancestors of Persian نیام (niyâm, scabbard),[2] of which the other formations within the root would be denominal, is hardly acceptable.

Root

ن ظ م (n-ẓ-m)

  1. forms words related to organizing, organization, arrangement, orderliness or composition

Derived terms

References

  1. Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, pages 1272–1273
  2. Shapira, Dan D. Y. (2009), “Irano-Arabica: contamination and popular etymology. Notes on the Persian and Arabic lexicons (with references to Aramaic, Hebrew and Turkic)”, in Христианский Восток – Новая Серия, volume 5 (XI), Moscow: Издательство Российской Академии Наук и Государственного Эрмитажа, pages 177–178 fn. 86

Further reading

  • Freytag, Georg (1837), ن ظ م”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 299–300
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