ث م م

Arabic

Root

ث م م • (ṯ-m-m)

1. related to putting into a good state

Derived terms

• Form I: ثَمَّ (ṯamma, “to repair, to put into a good state, to mend”)
  • Verbal noun: ثَمّ (ṯamm)
  • Active participle: ثَامّ (ṯāmm)
  • Passive participle: مَثْمُوم (maṯmūm)

• ثُمّ (ṯumm, “house utensils”)
• ثُمَام (ṯumām, “panicgrass”)
• ثُمَّة (ṯumma, “a handful of dry herbage”)
• مِثَمّ (miṯamm), مِثَمَّة (miṯamma, “man who sets affairs right, man who puts together good things”)
• ثَمُوم (ṯamūm, “sheep or goat that plucks with the mouth, especially ثُمَام (ṯumām); buffelgrass”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ث م م”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 163
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “ث م م”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 226–227
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ث م م”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 350–352
• Mandaville, James Paul (2011) Bedouin Ethnobotany. Plant Concepts and Uses in a Desert Pastoral World, Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 264
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ث م م”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 157