رمان

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See also: زمان

Arabic

Etymology

Uncertain direct and ultimate source, not Semitic. Compare Hebrew רימון / רִמּוֹן (rimmṓn), Punic *𐤓𐤌𐤍 (*rmn /⁠rimmūn⁠/) and Aramaic רִימֹּונָא / רִמֹּונָא (rimmōnā) / רוּמָּנָא / ܪܘܡܢܐ (rummānā), Ge'ez ሮማን (roman), Akkadian 𒄑𒈢𒆳𒊏 (/⁠armannu⁠/). Likely borrowed from Semitic is Egyptian

in
h		 mn
n		 M1

(jnhmn), which developed into Demotic hrnt, and from this ⲉⲣⲙⲁⲛ (erman, Bohairic), ⲗⲉϩⲙⲉⲛ (lehmen, Akhmimic), ϩⲉⲣⲙⲁⲛ (herman, Sahidic).

Further potential cognates

(With a different order of the consonants, compare also:)

رُمَّان
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Pronunciation

Noun

رُمَّان • (rummān) m (collective, singulative رُمَّانَة f (rummāna))

  1. (uncountable) pomegranate
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 55:68:
      فِيهِمَا فَـاكِهَةٌ وَنَخْلٌ وَرُمَّانٌ
      fīhimā fākihatun wanaḵlun warummānun
      In both of them are fruit, and palm trees, and pomegranates.
    • 2020 January 24, “شُبَّانٌ يُعِيدُونَ مِئَاتِ أَشْجَارِ ٱلرُّمَّانِ إِلَى قَرْيَةِ "أُمِّ ٱلْرُّمَّانِ" قُرْبَ تَازَارِينْ”, in Hespress‎:
      إِنَّ عَدَدَ أَشْجَارِ ٱلرُّمَّانِ ٱلْمُتَبَقِّيَّةِ لَا يَتَجَاوَزُ عَدَدَ أَصَابِعِ ٱلْيَدِ، بَعْدَمَا قَضَى ٱلْجَفَافُ عَلَى أَغْلَبِ ٱلْأَشْجَارِ ٱلْمُثْمِرَةِ، […]
      ʔinna ʕadada ʔašjāri r-rummāni l-mutabaqqiyyati lā yatajāwazu ʕadada ʔaṣābiʕi l-yadi, baʕdamā qaḍā l-jafāfu ʕalā ʔaḡlabi l-ʔašjāri l-muṯmirati, […]
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. (poetic) breasts
  3. (obsolete) sliding-weight of a steelyard
    Hypernyms: بَيْضَة (bayḍa), سَقُوم (saqūm)
    Holonyms: قَبَّان (qabbān), قَرَسْطُون (qarasṭūn)

Declension

Declension of noun رُمَّان (rummān)
Collective basic collective triptote
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal رُمَّان
rummān 		الرُّمَّان
ar-rummān 		رُمَّان
rummān
Nominative رُمَّانٌ
rummānun 		الرُّمَّانُ
ar-rummānu 		رُمَّانُ
rummānu
Accusative رُمَّانًا
rummānan 		الرُّمَّانَ
ar-rummāna 		رُمَّانَ
rummāna
Genitive رُمَّانٍ
rummānin 		الرُّمَّانِ
ar-rummāni 		رُمَّانِ
rummāni
Singulative singulative triptote in ـَة (-a)
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal رُمَّانَة
rummāna 		الرُّمَّانَة
ar-rummāna 		رُمَّانَة
rummānat
Nominative رُمَّانَةٌ
rummānatun 		الرُّمَّانَةُ
ar-rummānatu 		رُمَّانَةُ
rummānatu
Accusative رُمَّانَةً
rummānatan 		الرُّمَّانَةَ
ar-rummānata 		رُمَّانَةَ
rummānata
Genitive رُمَّانَةٍ
rummānatin 		الرُّمَّانَةِ
ar-rummānati 		رُمَّانَةِ
rummānati
Dual Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal رُمَّانَتَيْن
rummānatayn 		الرُّمَّانَتَيْن
ar-rummānatayn 		رُمَّانَتَيْ
rummānatay
Nominative رُمَّانَتَانِ
rummānatāni 		الرُّمَّانَتَانِ
ar-rummānatāni 		رُمَّانَتَا
rummānatā
Accusative رُمَّانَتَيْنِ
rummānatayni 		الرُّمَّانَتَيْنِ
ar-rummānatayni 		رُمَّانَتَيْ
rummānatay
Genitive رُمَّانَتَيْنِ
rummānatayni 		الرُّمَّانَتَيْنِ
ar-rummānatayni 		رُمَّانَتَيْ
rummānatay
Paucal (3-10) sound feminine paucal
Indefinite Definite Construct
Informal رُمَّانَات
rummānāt 		الرُّمَّانَات
ar-rummānāt 		رُمَّانَات
rummānāt
Nominative رُمَّانَاتٌ
rummānātun 		الرُّمَّانَاتُ
ar-rummānātu 		رُمَّانَاتُ
rummānātu
Accusative رُمَّانَاتٍ
rummānātin 		الرُّمَّانَاتِ
ar-rummānāti 		رُمَّانَاتِ
rummānāti
Genitive رُمَّانَاتٍ
rummānātin 		الرُّمَّانَاتِ
ar-rummānāti 		رُمَّانَاتِ
rummānāti

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  • “nurma”, in The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary‎, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 142
  • Guidi, Ignazio (1879) Della sede primitiva dei popoli semitici (in Italian), Rome: Tipi del Salviucci, page 19
  • Hoch, James E. (1994) Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period, Princeton: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, pages 24–25
  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 144–145
  • Löw, Immanuel (1924) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 3, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, pages 80–113
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 42
  • Steiger, Arnald, Walther von Wartburg (1960) “Balance romaine”, in Vox Romanica‎ (in German), volume 19, pages 221–244
  • Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 54

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic رُمَّان (rummān).

Noun

رمان • (rüman)

  1. pomegranate
  2. breasts; boobs

References

Persian

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Etymology

Borrowed from French roman.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Iran):(file)

Noun

رمان • (român)

  1. novel
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