غم

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See also: عم

Arabic

Etymology 1.1

Root
غ م م (ḡ m m)
12 terms

Pronunciation

Verb

غَمَّ (ḡamma) I (non-past يَغُمُّ (yaḡummu), verbal noun غَمّ (ḡamm))

  1. to cover, to veil, to shroud
  2. (passive voice) to be obscure, to be unapparent
    • 7th century CE, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, 13:6:
      فَإِنْ غُمَّ عَلَيْكُمْ فَاقْدِرُوا ثَلَاثِينَ
      faʔin ḡumma ʕalaykum fāqdirū ṯalāṯīna
      If is masked for you , then calculate thirty days [for the month of Ramaḍān.
  3. to fill with grief, to grief, to chagrin
Conjugation

Etymology 1.2

Pronunciation

Noun

غَمّ (ḡammm (plural غُمُوم (ḡumūm))

  1. grief, sorrow, chagrin
    • 7th century CE, Jamīʿ at-Tirmiḏiyy, section 37:
      وَتَدْنُو الشَّمْسُ، فَيَبْلُغُ النَّاسَ مِنَ الْغَمِّ وَالْكَرْبِ مَا لَا يُطِيقُونَ وَلَا يَحْتَمِلُونَ
      wa-tadnū š-šamsu, fa-yabluḡu n-nāsa mina al-ḡammi wa-l-karbi mā lā yuṭīqūna wa-lā yaḥtamilūna
      The sun will come so close to the people that they will suffer such distress and trouble as they will not be able to bear or stand.
Declension
Descendants
  • Azerbaijani: qəm
  • Catalan: gamar-se
  • Pashto: غَم (ǧam)
  • Classical Persian: غَم (ğam)
  • Northern Kurdish: xem
  • Swahili: ghamu
  • Tatar: гамь (ğam’), ğäm
  • Turkmen: gam
  • Uyghur: غەم (ghem)
  • Uzbek: gʻam

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “غم”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 292–293
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “غم”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2289
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “غم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 926

Pashto

Etymology

From Arabic غَمّ (ḡamm).

Pronunciation

Noun

غم (ǧamm

  1. grief, sorrow

Derived terms

Persian

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Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غَمّ (ḡamm).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? ğam
Dari reading? ğam
Iranian reading? ğam
Tajik reading? ġam

Noun

غم (ğam)

  1. grief, sorrow

Derived terms

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian غم (ğam), from Arabic غَمّ (ḡamm).

Pronunciation

Noun

غم (ġamm (Hindi spelling ग़म)

  1. grief, sorrow
    اُس کی موت پر گہرا غم منایا گیا۔
    uskī maut par gahrā ġam manāyā gayā.
    His death was deeply mourned.

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Derived terms