رام

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Arabic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Root
ر و م (r w m)
3 terms

From Proto-Semitic *rawam-, related to *rayam-.

Verb

رَامَ (rāma) I (non-past يَرُومُ (yarūmu), verbal noun رَوْم (rawm) or مَرَام (marām))

  1. (transitive) to aspire to, to aim at, to envisage, to propose to oneself, to desire ardently
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Root
ر ي م (r y m)
2 terms

From Proto-Semitic *rayam-, related to *rawam-.

Verb

رَامَ (rāma) I (non-past يَرِيمُ (yarīmu), verbal noun رَيْم (raym) or رَيَمَان (rayamān))

  1. to depart from, to separate oneself from
Conjugation

Etymology 3

رَامٍ

Derived from the active participle of رَمَى (ramā).

Noun

رَامٍ (rāminm (construct state رَامِي (rāmī), plural رَامُونَ (rāmūna) or رُمَاة (rumāh))

  1. who shoots or throws, marksman, archer, etc.
Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “رام”, 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, page 213
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “رام”, 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, page 218
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “رام”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 957
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “رام”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 964
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “رام”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1193
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “رام”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1203
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “رام”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 512
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “رام”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 516

Persian

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? rām
Dari reading? rām
Iranian reading? râm
Tajik reading? rom

Adjective

رام (râm)

  1. lame
  2. meek
  3. docile

Derived terms

References

Punjabi

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit राम (rāma).

Proper noun

رام (rāmm (Gurmukhi spelling ਰਾਮ)

  1. (Hinduism) Rama
  2. (Sikhism) all pervading God
    Synonyms: واہےگُرو (wāhegurū), ربّ (rab)

Urdu

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Etymology

From Sanskrit राम (rāma). Cognate to Bengali রাম (ram), Punjabi رام (rām)/ਰਾਮ (rām), Marathi राम (rām), Nepali राम (rām).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɾɑːm/

Proper noun

رام (rāmm (Hindi spelling राम)

  1. (Hinduism) Rama
    1. (Hinduism) God
      رام جانےrām jāneGod knows
  2. a male given name, Ram, from Sanskrit, of Hindu usage

Derived terms

References

  • Platts, John T. (1884) “رام”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • رام”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.