يم

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See also: یم, بم, تم, ثم, and نم

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from a Northwest Semitic language, most probably Aramaic ימא (yammā) or Hebrew יָם (yām).

Noun

يَمّ (yammm (plural يُمُوم (yumūm))

  1. open sea
    Synonym: بَحْر (baḥr)

Declension

Descendants

  • Beja: yam
  • Persian: یم (yam)

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 231
  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 293
  • Kogan, Leonid (2011) “Proto-Semitic Lexicon”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 191
  • Siddiqi, Abdussattar (1919) Studien über die Persischen Fremdwörter im klassischen Arabisch (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 13

Beja

Noun

يَم (yam)

  1. Arabic spelling of yam

Gulf Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic جَنْب (janb).

Pronunciation

Preposition

يم (yəm)

  1. beside
    وين صاير بيتكم؟
    يم الجمعية.
    – wen sˤajɪɾ bʲɛːtkʊm?
    jəm ɪl-dʒəmʕijjə.
    – Where is your house located?
    Beside the supermarket.

Iraqi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic جَنْبْ (janb).

Pronunciation

Preposition

يم (yam)

  1. next to, beside

Pashto

Pronunciation

Verb

يم (yëm) (simple past وم)

  1. (I) am.