ريم

Akin to Aramaic רָמָא (“high; height, hill”), Hebrew רָם (rām, “high”), רָמָה (rāmā, “high place”), Ugaritic 𐎗𐎎 (rm, “high; high place”). Related to Proto-Semitic *rayam- (“to be high, to be raised”).

رَيْم • (raym) m

1. excess, redundancy, augment
2. height, peak

رَيْم • (raym) m

1. verbal noun of رَامَ (rāma, “to depart from, to separate oneself from”)

رَيَّمَ • (rayyama) II (non-past يُرَيِّمُ (yurayyimu), verbal noun تَرْيِيم (taryīm))

1. to stay, to bide, to remain
2. to overflow, to spout forth

رِيمَ • (rīma) (form I) /riː.ma/

1. third-person masculine singular past passive of رَامَ (rāma, “to depart from, to separate oneself from”)

رِيمَ • (rīma) (form I) /riː.ma/

1. third-person masculine singular past passive of رَامَ (rāma, “to aspire to, to aim at, to envisage”)

From the root ر ي م (r-y-m) or ر و م (r-w-m), originally with the sense of climbing up higher, hence also away from others, to depart from, to separate oneself from, to avoid capture, to be wild or free. Related to Proto-Semitic *rayam- (“to be high, to be raised”); cognates with Biblical Hebrew רְאֵם (rəʾem, “oryx, wild cows”), Ugaritic 𐎗𐎜𐎎 (rủm, “auroch, wild buffalo”), Akkadian 𒄞𒄠 (rīmum, “wild bull, wild ass”).

• رِئْم (riʔm)

رِيم • (rīm) m (plural أَرْيَام (ʔaryām))

1. wild member of the Bovidae
2. gazelle, antelope, oryx (sand gazelle Gazella leptoceros and goitered gazelle Gazella subgutturosa subsp. marica formerly Gazella marica)

•  IPA^(key): /riːm/

رِيم • (rīm) f

1. a female given name, Reem

• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ريم”, 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 104
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ريم”, 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
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ريم”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 998
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ريم”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1203–1204
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ريم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 441
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ريم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 516