غم

See also: عم

Arabic

Root
غ م م (ḡ-m-m)

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /ɣam.ma/

Verb

غَمَّ • (ḡamma) I, non-past يَغُمُّ‎ (yaḡummu)

  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 [the sky] is masked for you [by clouds], then calculate thirty days [for the month of Ramaḍān.
  3. to fill with grief, to grief, to chagrin
Conjugation

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /ɣamm/

Noun

غَمّ • (ḡamm) m (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

  • IPA(key): /ɣam/

Noun

غم • (ǧam) m

  1. grief, sorrow

Derived terms

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic غَمّ (ḡamm).

Pronunciation

 

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

Noun

غم • (ğam)

  1. grief, sorrow

Derived terms

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian غم (ğam), from Arabic غَمّ (ḡamm).

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɣəm/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -əm

Noun

غم • (ġam) m (Hindi spelling ग़म)

  1. grief, sorrow
    اُس کی موت پر گہرا غم منایا گیا۔
    uskī maut par gahrā ġam manāyā gayā.
    His death was deeply mourned.

Synonyms

Derived terms

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