قام

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ق و م (q-w-m). Compare Hebrew קָם (kam), Ge'ez ቆመ (ḳomä).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /qaː.ma/
    • (Central Asia) IPA(key): /qōm/[1]
    • (Gulf, Hejazi) IPA(key): /ɡaːm/

Verb

قَامَ (qāma) I, non-past يَقُومُ‎ (yaqūmu)

  1. to stand up (to rise from lying or sitting position); to get up
  2. to do, to undertake, to take upon oneself (بِ (bi))
    أَتَقُومُ بِتَمَارِينِ الرِّيَاضَةِ؟
    ʾataqūmu bitamārīni r-riyāḍati?
    Do you do (sport) exercises?
  3. to go to (إِلَى (ʾilā))
    شَعَرَ جُحَا بِلِصٍّ فِي دَارِهِ لَيْلًا، فَقَامَ إِلَى خِزَانَةِ غُرْفَةِ النَّوْمِ وَاخْتَبَأَ فِيهَا.
    šaʿara juḥā bi-liṣṣin fī dārihī laylan, fa-qāma ʾilā ḵizānati ḡurfati n-nawmi wa-ḵtabaʾa fīhā.
    Juha sensed a thief in his house at night, so he went to the bedroom closet and hid in it.

Conjugation

References

  1. Cowan, W. (1960). Arabic evidence for Proto-Semitic*/awa/and*/ō. Language, 60-62.
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), قوم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
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