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Arabic
Etymology
Borrowed from Aramaic סִימָא (sīmā) / סִימָנָא (sīmānā), from Ancient Greek σῆμα (sêma), σημεῖον (sēmeîon). Compare Arabic شِيم (šīm).
Pronunciation
Noun
سِيمَاء • (sīmāʔ) f
- sign, mark, trait
- look, appearance, expression
Declension
Declension of noun سِيمَاء (sīmāʔ)
| Singular
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basic singular triptote
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| Indefinite
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Definite
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Construct
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| Informal
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سِيمَاء
sīmāʔ
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السِّيمَاء
as-sīmāʔ
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سِيمَاء
sīmāʔ
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| Nominative
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سِيمَاءٌ
sīmāʔun
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السِّيمَاءُ
as-sīmāʔu
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سِيمَاءُ
sīmāʔu
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| Accusative
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سِيمَاءً
sīmāʔan
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السِّيمَاءَ
as-sīmāʔa
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سِيمَاءَ
sīmāʔa
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| Genitive
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سِيمَاءٍ
sīmāʔin
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السِّيمَاءِ
as-sīmāʔi
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سِيمَاءِ
sīmāʔi
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References
- “symh3”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- “symn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- “smywn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
- Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 183–184
- Niehoff-Panagiotidis, Jannis (1996) “Romania Graeco-Arabica: lat. signum > gr. σίγνον > arab. siǧn”, in Romania Arabica. Festschrift für Reinhold Kontzi zum 70. Geburtstag (in German), Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, →ISBN, page 16
- Nöldeke, Theodor (1879) “Die Namen der Säugethiere bei den südsemitischen Völkern als Beiträge zur arabischen und äthiopischen Lexicographie, zur semitischen Kulturforschung und Sprachvergleichung und zur Geschichte der Mittelmeerfauna. Mit steter Berücksichtigung auch der assyrischen und hebräischen Thiernamen und geographischen und literaturgeschichtlichen Excursen von Fritz Hommel. Leipzig 1879, J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung XX und 471 S. in Octav”, in Göttingische gelehrte Anzeigen (in German), pages 1257–1258
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “سيماء”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 522b
- Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (in German), volume 51, page 298 Nr. 78