שום
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Aramaic
Noun
שום • (šum)
- singular construct state of שְׁמָא (šəmā)
Hebrew
Etymology 1
See under שָׂם (sám).
Verb
שׂוּם • (sum) or שׂוֹם • (som)
- bare infinitive of שָׂם (sam)
- Tanach, Jeremiah 42:15, with translation of the English Standard Version:
- אִם אַתֶּם שׂוֹם תְּשִׂמוּן פְּנֵיכֶם לָבֹא מִצְרַיִם
- im atém som t'simún p'nechém lavó mitsráyim
- If you set your faces to enter Egypt
- Tanach, Haggai 2:15, with Young's Literal Translation:
- מִטֶּרֶם שׂוּם אֶבֶן אֶל אֶבֶן בְּהֵיכַל יהוה
- mitérem sum éven el éven b'hechál YHVH
- Before the laying of stone to stone in the temple of Jehovah
Further reading
Etymology 2
From Aramaic שֻׁם (šum), indefinite and construct form of שְׁמָא (š'mā, “name”). The determiner is an extension of the noun.
Determiner
שׁוּם • (shúm)
- Some, any; found chiefly in negative contexts, as well as questions and conditional constructs.
- שום דבר לא קרה. ― shúm davár ló kará. ― Nothing happened.
- לא […] בשום צורה שהיא ― ló b'shúm tsurá shehí ― not in any way
- אין לי שום בעיה עם זה. ― éin lí shúm b'ayá ím zé. ― I don't have any problem with that.
Derived terms
- בשום אופן (b'shúm-ófen), בשום עניין ואופן (b'shúm inyán va'ófen), בשום פנים (b'shúm paním), בשום פנים ואופן (b'shúm paním va'ófen)
- שום דבר (shum davár)
Noun
שׁוּם • (shum)
Derived terms
- לְשׁוּם (l'shúm)
- מִשּׁוּם (mishúm), מִשּׁוּם מַה (mishúm ma), מִשּׁוּם שֶׁ־ (mishúm she-)
- עַל שׁוּם מַה (al shum ma), עַל שׁוּם (al shum)
Etymology 3
| Root |
|---|
| שׁ־ו־ם (sh-w-m) |
From Proto-Semitic *ṯūm-; cognate with Akkadian 𒋧 (šūmū), Aramaic תּוּמָא (tūmā), Arabic ثُوم (ṯūm).
Noun
שׁוּם • (shum) m
References
- “שום” in Abraham Even-Shoshan (אַבְרָהָם אֶבֶן־שׁוֹשָׁן) et al., הַמִּלּוֹן הֶחָדָשׁ (ha-milón he-khadásh, “The New Dictionary”), Kiryat-Sefer Ltd. (קִרְיַת־סֵפֶר בְּע״ם) (1984), →ISBN, volume 3 of 3 (ק to ת), page 1339.
- “שום” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language
- H7762 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Further reading
שום on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia he
Anagrams
Yiddish
Etymology
From Hebrew שׁוּם (“some, any (in negative contexts)”), from Aramaic שֻׁם.
Adverb
שום • (shum)
- not at all (intensifies a negative construction)
- איך האָב נישט קיין שום רויז!
- ikh hob nisht keyn shum royz!
- I don't have a single rose!