يمام

Perhaps blend of يَمّ (yamm, “sea”) +‎ حَمَام (ḥamām, “dove”), particularly listed to mean the blue rock pigeon (Columba livia) and the stock dove (Columba oenas), or of حَمَام (ḥamām) with the Aramaic designation of the dove יוון (yawōn) / יבן (yaḇōn) (Jewish Palestinian Aramaic as well as Christian Palestinian Aramaic, in Classical Syriac ܝܘܢܐ (yawnā)). However most close to Amorite 𒅀𒈠𒀀𒈠 f (ia-ma-a-ma /⁠yamāma⁠/, a female given name, literally “pigeon”).

• IPA^(key): /ja.maːm/

يَمَام • (yamām) m (collective, singulative يَمَامَة f (yamāma))

1. names for doves or pigeons, especially Streptopelia of which especially Streptopelia risoria, Columba oenas and Columba livia

• Maltese: gamiem
• → Persian: یمام (yamâm)

• “ywn”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
• Golinets, Viktor (2016) “Amorite Animal Names: Cognates for the Semitic Etymological Dictionary”, in Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for Comparative Semitics and Other Studies (Babel und Bibel; 9)‎, Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, →DOI, →ISBN, page 64
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ي م م”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1449 where Columba livia

From Arabic يَمَام (yamām).

• IPA^(key): /jmaːm/

يمام • (ymām) m (collective, singulative يمامة f (ymāma), paucal يمامات (ymāmāt))

1. dove, pigeon

   Synonym: حمام (ḥmām)