ح ك م

Arabic

Etymology

Compare Hebrew ח־כ־ם.

Root

ح ك م • (ḥ-k-m)

1. related to judging, wisdom, or ruling

Derived terms

Verbs and verb derivatives

• Form I: حَكَمَ (ḥakama, “to judge, sentence, adjudge, govern, command, decide”)
  • Verbal noun: حُكْم (ḥukm), حُكُومَة (ḥukūma)
  • Active participle: حَاكِم (ḥākim)
  • Passive participle: مَحْكُوم (maḥkūm)
• Form I: حَكَمَ (ḥakama, “to restrain, to bridle”)
  • Verbal noun: حَكْم (ḥakm)
  • Active participle: حَاكِم (ḥākim)
  • Passive participle: مَحْكُوم (maḥkūm)
• Form I: حَكُمَ (ḥakuma)
  • Verbal noun: حِكْمَة (ḥikma)
• Form II: حَكَّمَ (ḥakkama, “to appoint as ruler”)
  • Verbal noun: تَحْكِيم (taḥkīm)
  • Active participle: مُحَكِّم (muḥakkim)
  • Passive participle: مُحَكَّم (muḥakkam)
• Form III: حَاكَمَ (ḥākama, “to prosecute, interrogate, put on trial”)
  • Verbal noun: مُحَاكَمَة (muḥākama), حِكَام (ḥikām)
  • Active participle: مُحَاكِم (muḥākim)
  • Passive participle: مُحَاكَم (muḥākam)
• Form IV: أَحْكَمَ (ʔaḥkama, “to tighten, to clench, (in a bysense, and so translatable) to consolidate, to increase in strength; to get hold of, to seize, to bring or maintain under control, to grab tightly on ; to master, to know well or to be proficient in, to be able in”)
  • Verbal noun: إِحْكَام (ʔiḥkām)
  • Active participle: مُحْكِم (muḥkim)
  • Passive participle: مُحْكَم (muḥkam)
• Form V: تَحَكَّمَ (taḥakkama, “to have one's own way, pass judgement, dominate”)
  • Verbal noun: تَحَكُّم (taḥakkum)
  • Active participle: مُتَحَكِّم (mutaḥakkim)
  • Passive participle: مُتَحَكَّم (mutaḥakkam)
• Form VI: تَحَاكَمَ (taḥākama, “to bring one another before a judge”)
  • Verbal noun: تَحَاكُم (taḥākum)
  • Active participle: مُتَحَاكِم (mutaḥākim)
  • Passive participle: مُتَحَاكَم (mutaḥākam)
• Form VIII: اِحْتَكَمَ (iḥtakama, “to act according to one's own judgment”)
  • Verbal noun: اِحْتِكَام (iḥtikām)
  • Active participle: مُحْتَكِم (muḥtakim)
  • Passive participle: مُحْتَكَم (muḥtakam)
• Form X: اِسْتَحْكَمَ (istaḥkama, “to be strong, become stronger, become ingrained”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِحْكَام (istiḥkām)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَحْكِم (mustaḥkim)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَحْكَم (mustaḥkam)

Nouns and other parts of speech

• حُكْمِيّ (ḥukmiyy, “legal”)
• حَكَم (ḥakam, “arbiter”)
• حِكْمَة (ḥikma, “wisdom, aphorism”)
  • حِكْمِيّ (ḥikmiyy, “aphoristic”)
• حَكِيم (ḥakīm, “wise”)
  • أَحْكَم (ʔaḥkam, “wiser”)
• حُكُومَة (ḥukūma, “government”)
  • حُكُومِيّ (ḥukūmiyy, “governmental”)
• مَحْكَمَة (maḥkama, “court”)
• حَاكِمِيَّة (ḥākimiyya, “sovereignty, jurisdiction”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ح ك م”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 309–311
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ح ك م”, 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, pages 411–412
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ح ك م”, 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), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 470–472
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ح ك م”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 616–618
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ح ك م”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen, pages 290–291
• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “ح ك م”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache‎ (in German), volume 1, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, pages 534–535
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ح ك م”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 228–231
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ح ك م”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 280–284