رمس

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See also: رمش

Arabic

Etymology

Dissimilation of نَامُوس (nāmūs),[1][2] maybe also with influence of نَاوُوس (nāwūs).

Pronunciation

Verb

رَمَسَ (ramasa) I (non-past يَرْمِسُ (yarmisu) or يَرْمُسُ (yarmusu), verbal noun رَمْس (rams))

  1. to bury
  2. to cover, to wipe out (traces, tracks of something)

Conjugation

Noun

رَمْس (ramsm

  1. grave; tomb; soil of a grave

Declension

Alternative forms

References

  1. ^ Růžička, Rudolf (1909) “Konsonantische Dissimilation in den semitischen Sprachen”, in Beiträge zur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), volume VI, number 4, Leipzig · Baltimore: J.C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung · The Johns Hopkins Press, page 99
  2. ^ Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), “رمس”, in Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 558 it is declared, as notorious for this book, an extension of a biconsonantal root, رَمَّ (ramma), ر م م (r-m-m), glossed there “to be heaped up”, cognate with the Hebrew and Aramaic r-m-s “trampling”.

Further reading

  • Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “رمس”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “رمس”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 192b
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “رمس”, 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 Cie, pages 923b–924a
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “رمس”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 434b
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “رمس”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 500a