نمط

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Aramaic נַמְטָא / ܢܡܛܐ (namṭā), from Middle Persian [script needed] (nmt' /namad/, felt, fibers), from Proto-Iranian *namatā- (cloth made of hairs).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /na.matˤ/ (noun)
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    (noun)

Noun

نَمَط (namaṭ) m (plural أَنْمَاط (ʔanmāṭ) or نِمَاط (nimāṭ) or أَنْمِطَة (ʔanmiṭa))

  1. (archaic, if not dialectal) drugget, a type of rug also laid over a saddle
    • a. 1000, المقدسي, Michael Jan de Goeje, editor, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم [ʾaḥsan at-taqāsīm fī maʿrifa al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3), Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1877, 1906, web 1/139, page 380 line 8–10:
      ولا نظير لتككهم ومحفوريَّاتهم وقرمزهم وأنماطهم وصبغهم وفاكهة تسمَّى الزُّوقال وقسبويه وسمك يقال له الطِرِّيخ ولهم تين وشاه بلُّوط في غاية الجودة.
      There is nothing resembling their waistbands, their streaked rugs, their crimson, their druggets, their dyes, and the fruit called cornel, and their dentexes, and their fish called pearl mullet. And they have figs and chestnuts of finest quality.
  2. pattern, type, style, manner, mode, wise
  3. routine

Declension

Derived terms

  • نَمَطِيّ (namaṭiyy)

Verb

نَمَّطَ (nammaṭa) II, non-past يُنَمِّطُ‎ (yunammiṭu)

  1. to profile, to stereotype, to standardize, to routinize

Conjugation

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 102
  • Freytag, Georg (1837), نمط”, 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, page 339
  • Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana; Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, page 922
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), نمط”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1317
  • Worrell, William Hoyt (1935), “More about Arabic Terms for ”Rug””, in Ars Islamica, volume 2, issue 1, →DOI, pages 67–68
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