قوم

From the root ق و م‎ (q-w-m); compare قَامَ‎ (qāma, “to rise”).

قَوَّمَ • (qawwama) II, non-past يُقَوِّمُ‎‎ (yuqawwimu)

1. (transitive) to raise
2. (transitive) to evaluate
3. (transitive) to adjust

• Mace, John (2007), “قوم”, in Arabic Verbs, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /qawm/

قَوْم • (qawm) m

1. verbal noun of قَامَ‎ (qāma, “to get up”) (form I)
2. standing up, rising, placing upright, remaining, abiding

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “قوم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

قَوْم • (qawm) m (plural أَقْوَام‎ (ʔaqwām))

1. people, nation, tribe
2. some people, someone, a certain
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 28:21:

     ‏فَخَرَجَ مِنْهَا خَائِفًا يَتَرَقَّبُ قَالَ رَبِّ نَجِّنِي مِنَ الْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَ‎

     faḵaraja minhā ḵāʔifan yataraqqabu qāla rabbi najjinī mina l-qawmi ẓ-ẓālimīna

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

3. (group of) men
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 49:11:

     ‏يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا يَسْخَرْ قَوْمٌ مِّن قَوْمٍ عَسَىٰ أَن يَكُونُوا خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَلَا نِسَاءٌ مِّن نِّسَاءٍ عَسَىٰ أَن يَكُنَّ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُنَّ‎

     yā ʔayyuhā allaḏīna ʔāmanū lā yasḵar qawmun mmin qawmin ʕasā ʔan yakūnū ḵayran mminhum walā nisāʔun mmin nnisāʔin ʕasā ʔan yakunna ḵayran mminhunna

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

4. family
5. sect

• → Persian: قوم‎
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਕੌਮ (kaum)

    Shahmukhi script: قوم‎ (kaum)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “قوم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

قُوَّم • (quwwam)

1. inflection of قَائِم‎ (qāʔim):
   1. masculine plural
   2. feminine plural

قوم (qum)

1. Alternative spelling of قۇم‎

قوم (qom)

1. Alternative spelling of قوْم

From Arabic قَوَّم‎ (qawwam).

• IPA^(key): /ɡawwam/

قوم • (gawwam) (form II, non-past يِقَوِّم‎ (yimawwit), verbal noun تَقْويم‎ (tagwīm))

1. to awaken

   Synonym: صَحَّى‎ (ṣaḥḥa)

2. to rise up
3. to erect

• IPA^(key): /ɡuːm/

قوم • (gūm)

1. second-person masculine singular imperative of قام‎ (gām)

• IPA^(key): /ɡawwim/

قوم • (gawwim)

1. second-person masculine singular imperative of قَوِّم (gawwam)

From Arabic قَوَّمَ‎ (qawwama).

• IPA^(key): /qaw.wam/

قوم • (qawwam) (form II, non-past يقوم‎ (yqawwam))

1. (transitive) to evaluate

From Arabic قَوْم‎ (qawm).

• IPA^(key): /qawm/, /quːm/

قَوْم or قُوم • (qawm or qūm) m (plural أقوام‎ (ʔaqwām))

1. people, nation

From Proto-Turkic *kum (“sand”); cognate with Azerbaijani qum, Turkmen gum, Kazakh құм (qūm), Kyrgyz кум (kum), Uzbek qum, Uyghur قۇم‎ (qum) and Tuvan кум (kum).

قوم • (kum)

1. sand, finely ground rock which forms beaches and deserts
2. gravel, chisel, small fragments of rock
3. (medicine) kidney stones, a calculus in the kidney
4. anything that is as numerous as grains of sand

• Turkish: kum
• → Armenian: խում (xum), ղում (łum)
• → Serbo-Croatian: kȕm

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kum”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2833
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قوم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 990
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Arena”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 81
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قوم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, columns 3805–3806
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kum”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قوم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1498

From Arabic قَوْم‎ (qawm).

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /qawm/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /qawm/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /ɢowm/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /qavm/

قوم • (qowm) (plural اقوام‎ (aqvâm))

1. people, nation, tribe
   • 1048-1131, Omar Khayyám, Rubáiyát

     ‏قومی متفکرند اندر ره دین‎ ― qowm-i motefakker-and andar rah-e din ― (please add an English translation of this quote)

     ‏قومی به گمان فتاده در راه یقین‎ ― qowm-i be-gamân fetâde dar râh-e yaqin ― (please add an English translation of this quote)

     ‏می‌ترسم از آنکه بانگ آید روزی‎ ― mi-tarsam az ân-ke bâng âyad ruzi ― (please add an English translation of this quote)

     ‏کای بی‌خبران راه نه آنست و نه این‎ ― key bi-xabarân! râh na ân-ast o na in ― (please add an English translation of this quote)

2. ethnic group

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਕੌਮ (kaum)

  Shahmukhi script: قوم‎ (kaum)

Borrowed from Arabic قَوْم‎ (qawm).

قَوم • (qaum) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਕੌਮ)

1. nation, people

• (people): نسل‎ (nasal)

Borrowed from Arabic قَوْم‎ (qawm).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qɔːm/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /xɔːm/

قوم • (qaum) f (plural اقوام‎, Hindi spelling क़ौम)

1. nation, people
2. community
3. creed, race

• (people, community): امت‎ (ummat)
• (creed, race): نسل‎ (nasl), جاتی‎ (jātī)

• قومی‎ (qaumī)

• بین الاقوامی‎ (bain-ul-aqwāmī)