قوم

Compare قَامَ (qāma, “to rise”).

قَوَّمَ • (qawwama) II (non-past يُقَوِّمُ (yuqawwimu), verbal noun تَقْوِيم (taqwīm))

1. (transitive) to raise
2. (transitive) to evaluate
3. (transitive) to adjust

• Mace, John (2007) “قوم”, in Arabic Verbs, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /qawm/

قَوْم • (qawm) m

1. verbal noun of قَامَ (qāma, “to get up”) (form I)
2. standing up, rising, placing upright, remaining, abiding
3. state, polity

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قوم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

قَوْم • (qawm) m (plural أَقْوَام (ʔaqwām))

1. people, nation, tribe, folk
2. some people, someone, a certain
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 28:21:

     فَخَرَجَ مِنْهَا خَائِفًا يَتَرَقَّبُ قَالَ رَبِّ نَجِّنِي مِنَ الْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَ

     faḵaraja minhā ḵāʔifan yataraqqabu qāla rabbi najjinī mina l-qawmi ẓ-ẓālimīna

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. (group of) men
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 49:11:

     يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا يَسْخَرْ قَوْمٌ مِّن قَوْمٍ عَسَىٰ أَن يَكُونُوا خَيْرًا مِّنْهُمْ وَلَا نِسَاءٌ مِّن نِّسَاءٍ عَسَىٰ أَن يَكُنَّ خَيْرًا مِّنْهُنَّ

     yā ʔayyuhā llaḏīna ʔāmanū lā yasḵar qawmun min qawmin ʕasā ʔan yakūnū ḵayran minhum walā nisāʔun min nisāʔin ʕasā ʔan yakunna ḵayran minhunna

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

4. family
5. sect

• → Azerbaijani: qövm, qohum
• → Kazakh: қауым (qauym)
• → Persian: قوم
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਕੌਮ (kaum)

    Shahmukhi script: قوم (kaum)

• → Ottoman Turkish: قوم
  • Turkish: kum
  • → Armenian: խում (xum), ղում (ġum)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ку̏м

    Latin script: kȕm

• → Uyghur: قوۋم (qowm)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قوم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

قُوَّم • (quwwam)

1. inflection of قَائِم (qāʔim):
   1. masculine plural
   2. feminine plural

قۇم (qum)

1. Arabic spelling of qum (“sand”)

From Arabic قَوَّم (qawwam).

• IPA^(key): /ɡawwam/

قوم • (gawwam) II (non-past يِقَوِّم (yimawwit), verbal noun تَقْويم (tagwīm))

1. to awaken

   Synonym: صَحَّى (ṣaḥḥa)

2. to rise up
3. to erect

• IPA^(key): /ɡuːm/

قوم • (gūm)

1. second-person masculine singular imperative of قام (gām)

• IPA^(key): /ɡawwim/

قوم • (gawwim)

1. second-person masculine singular imperative of قَوِّم (gawwam)

From Arabic قَوَّمَ (qawwama).

• IPA^(key): /qaw.wam/

قوم • (qawwam) II (non-past يقوم (yqawwam))

1. (transitive) to evaluate

From Arabic قَوْم (qawm).

• IPA^(key): /qawm/, /quːm/

قَوْم or قُوم • (qawm or qūm) m (plural أقوام (ʔaqwām))

1. people, nation

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kum (“sand”); cognate with Azerbaijani qum, Bashkir ҡом (qom), Kazakh құм (qūm), Kyrgyz кум (kum), Turkmen gum, Uyghur قۇم (qum) and Uzbek qum.

قوم • (kum)

1. sand, finely ground rock which forms beaches and deserts

   Synonyms: رمل (reml), ریگ (rig)

2. gravel, chisel, small fragments of rock

   Synonym: چاقل (çakıl)

3. (medicine) kidney stones, a calculus in the kidney
4. (figuratively) anything that is as numerous as grains of sand

• Turkish: kum
• → Armenian: խում (xum), ղում (ġum)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ку̏м

  Latin script: kȕm

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kum1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2833
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “قوم”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 377a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قوم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 990
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Arena”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 81
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قوم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 3805–3806
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kum”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قوم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1496

Borrowed from Arabic قَوْم (qawm).

قُوْم • (qowm) (plural اقوام (aqvâm))

1. people, nation, tribe
   • 1048-1131, Omar Khayyám, Rubáiyát

     قومی متفکرند اندر ره دین ― qowm-i motefakker-and andar rah-e din ― (please add an English translation of this quotation)

     قومی به گمان فتاده در راه یقین ― qowm-i be-gamân fetâde dar râh-e yaqin ― (please add an English translation of this quotation)

     می‌ترسم از آنکه بانگ آید روزی ― mi-tarsam az ân-ke bâng âyad ruzi ― (please add an English translation of this quotation)

     کای بی‌خبران راه نه آنست و نه این ― key bi-xabarân! râh na ân-ast o na in ― (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. ethnic group

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਕੌਮ (kaum)

  Shahmukhi script: قوم (kaum)

Borrowed from Arabic قَوْم (qawm).

قَوم • (qaum) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਕੌਮ)

1. nation, people

• (people): نسل (nasal)

Borrowed from Arabic قَوْم (qawm).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qɔːm/

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قَوم • (qaum) f (formal plural اقوام, Hindi spelling क़ौम)

1. nation

   بابائے قَوم ― bābāe qaum ― father of the nation

2. people, community

   قَومِ لُوط ― qaum-i lūt ― people of Lot

3. race

• (people, community): سَمُدائے (samudāe), سَمْپَرْدائے (sampardāe), سَن٘گَت (saṅgat), گِروہ (giroh), سَماج (samāj), مُعاشِرَہ (mu'āśira), بَرادرِی (barādrī), اُمَّت (ummat)
• (race): نسل (nasl), جاتی (jātī)

• قَومی (qaumī, “national”)
• قَومِیَت (qaumiyat, “nationality”)
• اَقْوامِ مُتَّحِدَہ (aqvām-i muttahida, “United Nations”)
• بَینَ الَاقْوامی (bainal-aqvāmī, “international”)
• قَوم پَرَسْتی (qaum parastī, “nationalism”)

• Platts, John T. (1884) “قوم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “قوم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• John Shakespear (1834) “قوم”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC