أتم

Arabic

Etymology 1

Causative corresponding to base verb تَمَّ (tamma, “to be completed”). Sense to give the تِمّ (timm) to is denominal, derived from تِمّ (timm, “type of hoe or shovel”).

Verb

أَتَمَّ • (ʔatamma) IV, non-past يُتِمُّ‎ (yutimmu)

1. to complete, finish
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 5:3:

     الْيَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ وَأَتْمَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعْمَتِي وَرَضِيتُ لَكُمُ الْإِسْلَامَ دِينًا

     al-yawma ʔakmaltu lakum dīnakum waʔatmamtu ʕalaykum niʕmatī waraḍītu lakumu l-ʔislāma dīnan

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to improve, make perfect
3. to be on the point of giving birth
4. (botany) to be full-grown (of a plant)
5. (astronomy) to be full (of the moon)
6. to obtain one's wish
7. to give the تِمّ (timm) to (a kind of hoe or shovel)
8. to go to

Conjugation

References

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “أتم”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “أتم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

Etymology 2

Elative of تَامّ (tāmm, “complete, perfect”).

Adjective

أَتَمّ • (ʔatamm) (feminine تُمَّى (tummā), masculine plural أَتَامّ (ʔatāmm), feminine plural تُمَّيَات (tummayāt))

1. elative degree of تَامّ (tāmm):
   1. more complete, more perfect; most complete, most perfect

Declension

References

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “تم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Etymology 3

Verb

أَتِمُّ • (ʔatimmu) (form I)

1. first-person singular non-past active indicative of تَمَّ (tamma)

Verb

أَتِمَّ • (ʔatimma) (form I)

1. first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of تَمَّ (tamma)
2. first-person singular non-past active jussive of تَمَّ (tamma)

Verb

أَتِمِّ • (ʔatimmi) (form I)

1. first-person singular non-past active jussive of تَمَّ (tamma)