سام

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See also: شام

Arabic

Etymology 1

Root
س م و (s m w)
11 terms

Derived from the active participle of سَمَا (samā, to be high, to be exalted).

Pronunciation

Adjective

سَامٍ (sāmin) (informal سَامِي (sāmī), feminine سَامِيَة (sāmiya), masculine plural سَامُون (sāmūn) or سُمَاة (sumāh), feminine plural سَامِيَات (sāmiyāt), elative أَسْمَى (ʔasmā))

  1. high, lofty
  2. exalted, sublime
  3. emanating from the sultan or vizier
Declension
Descendants
  • Azerbaijani: sami
  • Bengali: সামী (samī)
  • Malay: sami
  • Ottoman Turkish: سامی
  • Persian: سامی
  • Tajik: сомӣ (somi)
  • Urdu: سامی (sāmī)

Etymology 2

Derived from the active participle of سَمَّ (samma, to poison).

Pronunciation

Adjective

سَامّ (sāmm) (feminine سَامَّة (sāmma), masculine plural سَامُّونَ (sāmmūna), feminine plural سَامَّات (sāmmāt) or سَوَامّ (sawāmm))

  1. poisonous, toxic
Declension

Etymology 3

Root
س و م (s w m)
6 terms

Pronunciation

Verb

سَامَ (sāma) I (non-past يَسُومُ (yasūmu), verbal noun سَوْم (sawm))

  1. (obsolete) to rove, to pasture (camels, sheep, birds …)
  2. to offer for sale
  3. to urge, to demand, to compel, to impose, to afflict, etc.
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 7:141:
      وَإِذْ أَنْجَيْنَاكُمْ مِنْ آلِ فِرْعَوْنَ يَسُومُونَكُمْ سُوءَ الْعَذَابِ ۖ يُقَتِّلُونَ أَبْنَاءَكُمْ وَيَسْتَحْيُونَ نِسَاءَكُمْ ۚ وَفِي ذَٰلِكُم بَلَاءٌ مِنْ رَبِّكُمْ عَظِيمٌ
      waʔiḏ ʔanjaynākum min ʔāli firʕawna yasūmūnakum sūʔa l-ʕaḏāba yuqattilūna ʔabnāʔakum wayastaḥyūna nisāʔakum wafī ḏālikum balāʔun min rabbikum ʕaẓīmun
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܣܳܡ (sām, to constitute, to establish, to set, to place, to install).

Pronunciation

Verb

سَامَ (sāma) I (non-past يَسُومُ (yasūmu), verbal noun سِيَامَة (siyāma))

  1. (Christianity) to ordain for ecclesiastical office
Conjugation

Etymology 5

Compare Hebrew שֵׁם (šēm). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Proper noun

سَام (sāmm

  1. Shem
  2. a male given name, Sam
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 6

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

سَام (sāmm

  1. (obsolete) death
    Synonym: مَوْت (mawt)
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 39:118:
      حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ رُمْحِ بْنِ ٱلْمُهَاجِرِ، أَخْبَرَنَا ٱللَّيْثُ، عَنْ عُقَيْلٍ، عَنِ ٱبْنِ شِهَابٍ، أَخْبَرَنِي أَبُو سَلَمَةَ بْنُ عَبْدِ ٱلرَّحْمَنِ وَسَعِيدُ بْنُ ٱلْمُسَيَّبِ، أَنَّ أَبَا هُرَيْرَةَ أَخْبَرَهُمَا أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ رَسُولَ ٱللَّٰهِ—صَلَّى ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ—يَقُولُ: «إِنَّ فِي ٱلْحَبَّةِ ٱلسَّوْدَاءِ شِفَاءً مِنْ كُلِّ دَاءٍ إِلَّا ٱلسَّامَ». وَٱلسَّامُ ٱلْمَوْتُ. وَٱلْحَبَّةُ ٱلسَّوْدَاءُ ٱلشُّونِيزُ.
      ḥaddaṯanā muḥammadu bnu rumḥi bni l-muhājiri, ʔaḵbaranā l-layṯu, ʕan ʕuqaylin, ʕani bni šihābin, ʔaḵbaranī ʔabū salamata bnu ʕabdi r-raḥmani wasaʕīdu bnu l-musayyabi, ʔanna ʔabā hurayrata ʔaḵbarahumā ʔannahu samiʕa rasūla llāhi—ṣallā llāhu ʕalayhi wasallama—yaqūlu: “ʔinna fī l-ḥabbati s-sawdāʔi šifāʔan min kulli dāʔin ʔillā s-sāma”. was-sāmu l-mawtu. wal-ḥabbatu s-sawdāʔu š-šūnīzu.
      God’s Prophet (ﷺ) says: “Blackseed is a cure of every disease short of fatality.” Fatality is death, blackseed is swartzcummel.
Declension

References

  • swm”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • سام” in Almaany
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “س و م”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 708
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “س و م”, 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, pages 378–379
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “س و م”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1474–1475
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سام”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 475
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “سام”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 543
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “س م م”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 595
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “س و م”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, pages 616–617

Malay

Adjective

سام

  1. Jawi spelling of sama‎.

Adverb

سام

  1. Jawi spelling of sama‎.

Preposition

سام

  1. Jawi spelling of sama‎.

Persian

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Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? sām
Dari reading? sām
Iranian reading? sâm
Tajik reading? som

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćyaHmás, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱyeh₁-mó-s (black, dark), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (darkness, shadow). Cognate with Avestan 𐬯𐬁𐬨𐬀 (sāma, black), Sanskrit श्याम (śyāma). Related to سیاه (siyâh, black), and سیاوش (siyâvaš).

Noun

سام (sâm)

  1. fire
  2. flame

Proper noun

سام (sâm)

  1. a male given name, Sam or Saam

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Possibly related to آماس (âmâs, swell, swelling). Compare Arabic سام (sām, death) (possibly). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

سام (sâm)

  1. swell, swelling
  2. (by extension) disease

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic سَامّ (sāmm).

Adjective

سام (sâm)

  1. poisonous
  2. toxic

References