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

    Persian Wikipedia has an article on:
    Wikipedia fa

    Etymology

      Borrowed from Arabic غَمّ (ḡamm), from غ م م (ḡ m m).

      Pronunciation

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

      Noun

      غم (ğam)

      1. grief, sorrow

      Derived terms

      Punjabi

      Etymology

        Borrowed from Classical Persian غَم (ğam), borrowed from Arabic غَمّ (ḡamm), from غ م م (ḡ m m).

        Pronunciation

        Noun

        غَم (ġamm (Gurmukhi spelling ਗ਼ਮ)

        1. sorrow; sadness; grief
        2. mourning
        3. worry (ie. distress)
        4. depression
        5. melancholy

        Declension

        Declension of غم
        dir. sg. غَم (ġam)
        dir. pl. غَم (ġam)
        singular plural
        direct غَم (ġam) غَم (ġam)
        oblique غَم (ġam) غَماں (ġamāṉ)
        vocative غَما (ġamā) غَمو (ġamo)
        ablative غَموں (ġamoṉ) غَماں (ġamāṉ)
        locative غَمے (ġame) غَمِیں (ġamīṉ)
        instrumental غَموں (ġamoṉ)

        Further reading

        • Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “غم”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
        • Bashir, Kanwal (2012) “غم”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press
        • ਗ਼ਮ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2024

        Urdu

        Etymology

          Borrowed from Classical Persian غَم (ğam), borrowed from Arabic غَمّ (ḡamm), from غ م م (ḡ m m).[1] First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi غم (ġm /⁠ġam⁠/).[2]

          Pronunciation

          Noun

          غَم (ġamm (formal plural غُمُوم (ġumūm), Hindi spelling ग़म)

          1. sorrow; sadness
            Synonym: دُکھ (dukh)
          2. mourning
            اُس کی موت پر گہرا غم منایا گیا۔
            uskī maut par gahrā ġam manāyā gayā.
            His death was deeply mourned.
          3. worry; distress
          4. depression
          5. (obsolete) concern

          Declension

              Declension of غم
          singular plural
          direct غَم (ġam) غَم (ġam)
          oblique غَم (ġam) غَموں (ġamõ)
          vocative غَم (ġam) غَمو (ġamo)

          Derived terms

          References

          1. ^ Platts, John T. (1884) “غم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
          2. ^ غم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

          Further reading