يم

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See also: یم, بم, تم, ثم, and نم

Arabic

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Etymology

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Borrowed from a Northwest Semitic language, most probably Aramaic ימא (yammā) or Hebrew יָם (yām).

Noun

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يَمّ (yammm (plural يُمُوم (yumūm))

  1. open sea
    Synonym: بَحْر (baḥr)

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Beja: yam
  • Persian: یم (yam)

References

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  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 231
  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 293
  • Kogan, Leonid (2011) “Proto-Semitic Lexicon”, in Weninger, Stefan, editor, The Semitic Languages. An International Handbook (Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft – Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science; 36), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 191
  • Siddiqi, Abdussattar (1919) Studien über die Persischen Fremdwörter im klassischen Arabisch (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 13

Beja

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Noun

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يَم (yam)

  1. Arabic spelling of yam

Gulf Arabic

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Etymology

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From Arabic جَنْب (janb).

Pronunciation

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Preposition

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يم (yəm)

  1. beside
    وين صاير بيتكم؟
    يم الجمعية.
    – wen sˤajɪɾ bʲɛːtkʊm?
    jəm ɪl-dʒəmʕijjə.
    – Where is your house located?
    Beside the supermarket.

Iraqi Arabic

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Etymology

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From Arabic جَنْبْ (janb).

Pronunciation

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Preposition

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يم (yam)

  1. next to, beside

Pashto

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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يم (yëm) (simple past وم)

  1. (I) am.