إشتيام

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See also: اشتيام

Arabic

Etymology

From Aramaic אִישְׁתְּיָאמָא (ʾištyāmā) / ܐܸܫܬܝܵܡܵܐ (ʾeštyāmā, captain), assumed to be from Akkadian 𒊮𒌓 (ŠA₃.TAM /⁠šatammu⁠/, administrator, chief accountant), from Sumerian 𒊮𒌓 (ŠA₃.TAM /⁠šatam⁠/, auditor, administration official), having passed into Aramaic as */šətammā/*/šətēmā//ištēmā/, then misvocalized and spoken instead of אִשְׁתֵּימָא (ʾištēmā) as אִשְׁתְּיָמָא (ʾištyāmā) and written plene אִישְׁתְּיָאמָא (ʾištyāmā).

Noun

إِشْتِيَام (ʔištiyāmm (plural أَشَاتِمَة (ʔašātima))

  1. (obsolete) captain, or specifically a supercargo
    Synonyms: رُبَّان (rubbān), قُبْطَان (qubṭān)

Declension

References

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  • Ullmann, Manfred (1992) Das Motiv des Spiegels in der arabischen Literatur des Mittelalters (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen: Philologisch-historische Klasse; 198) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pages 139–40
  • ˀštym”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • “šatam [OFFICIAL]”, in The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary, University of Pennsylvania, 2006