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Hebrew
Etymology 1
Compare Arabic نَعَمَ (naʕama) from the root ن ع م (n-ʕ-m).
Root
נ־ע־ם • (n-ʿ-m)
- Related to being pleasant, nice, agreeable.
Etymology 2
Compare Arabic نَغْمَة (naḡma).
Root
נ־ע־ם • (n-ʿ-m)
- Related to singing, music, melody.
Etymology 3
See נַעֲמִית, Arabic نَعَام (naʕām), Classical Syriac ܢܥܡܐ. Possibly derived from the "pleasant" sense above.
Root
נ־ע־ם • (n-ʿ-m)
- Related to ostriches.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “נ־ע־ם” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
- “נ־ע־ם”, in Hebrew dictionary and conjugation tables, Pealim.com
- Klein, Ernest (1987) “נעם”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English, Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 420
- A. Murtonen (1989) “N&M”, in Hebrew in Its West Semitic Setting, Part I, Section Bb, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 284–285