جمان

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Arabic

Etymology

From Byzantine Greek ἡγουμένη (hēgouménē), at first passed as جُمِّنِيَا (jumminiyā), جُمَّلِيّة (jummaliyya), a name applied to leading ropes; though also connected to Persian کمان (kamân, anything bent).

Pronunciation

Noun

جُمَان (jumānm (collective, singulative جُمَانَة f (jumāna))

  1. tassel, puff, a cord or belt garnished with beads and other jewellery, or other cable
  2. pearls or other beads particularly if rowed in a cord

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References

  • Agius, Dionisius A. (1996) Siculo Arabic, London: Kegan Paul International, page 260, who equates this and جُمّة (jumma, a collective mass of hair)
  • Corriente, F. (1997) “jummaliyya”, in A Dictionary of Andalusi Arabic (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East; 29)‎, Leiden, New York, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, →LCCN
  • Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), “ǧummaliyya, ǧumminiyā”, in Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 285
  • Fennis, Jan (1995) Trésor du langage des galères. Dictionnaire exhaustif, avec une introduction, des dessins originaux de René Burlet et des planches de Jean-Antoine de Barras de la Penne, un relevé onomasiologique et une bibliographie (Lexicographica. Series Maior; 62) (in French), volume II, Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, →DOI, pages 1064–1066
  • Freytag, Georg (1830) “جمان”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 308b
  • Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, pages 252–253, Nr. 332, not seeing the origin word.
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “جمان”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 331a
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “جمان”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 461c
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “جمان”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 244a