اسم

From Proto-Semitic *šim-, from Proto-Afro-Asiatic *(ʔi-)sim- (“name”).

• IPA^(key): /ism/
• (narrow) IPA^(key): [ʔism̩]

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  • (Gulf) IPA^(key): /i.sim/

اِسْم • (ism) m (plural أَسْمَاء‎ (ʾasmāʾ) or أَسَامٍ‎ (ʾasāmin))

1. name

   ‏مَا اسْمُكَ؟‎‎ ― mā smuka ― What is your name?

   ‏بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ‎ ― bi-smi llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīmi ― in the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate

   ‏بِسْمِ ٱلْأَبِ وَٱلِٱبْنِ وَٱلرُّوحِ ٱلْقُدُسِ‎ ― bi-smi l-ʾabi wа-l-ibni wа-r-rūḥi l-qudusi ― in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost

1. appellation
2. reputation, prestige
3. (grammar) noun (a category above, including pronouns and adjectives, see the derived terms to get a picture of the usage)

• اِسْم فَاعِل‎ (ism fāʿil, “participium activum”)
• اِسْم مَفْعُول‎ (ism mafʿūl, “participium passivum”)
• اِسْم تَفْضِيل‎ (ism tafḍīl, “elativus”)
• اِسْم جِنْس‎ (ism jins, “nomen appellativum”)
• اِسْم عَلَم‎ (ism ʿalam, “nomen proprium”)
• اِسْم جِنْس إِفْرَادِيّ‎ (ism jins ʾifrādiyy)
• اِسْم جِنْس جَمْعِيّ‎ (ism jins jamʿiyy)
• اِسْم جَمْع‎ (ism jamʿ, “nomen generis”)
• اِسْم وَحْدَة‎ (ism waḥda, “nomen unitatis”)
• اِسْم مَكَان‎ (ism makān, “nomen loci”)
• اِسْم زَمَان‎ (ism zamān, “nomen temporis”)
• اِسْم آلَة‎ (ism ʾāla, “nomen instrumenti”)
• اِسْم وِعَاء‎ (ism wiʿāʾ, “nomen vasis”)
• اِسْم مَرَّة‎ (ism marra, “nomen vicis”)
• اِسْم هَيْئَة‎ (ism hayʾa, “nomen speciei”)
• اِسْم نَوْع‎ (ism nawʿ, “nomen speciei”)
• اِسْم مَقْصُور‎ (ism maqṣūr, “noun ending in ى‎ or ا‎”)
• اِسْم مَنْقُوص‎ (ism manqūṣ, “noun ending in ـٍ‎ (-in)”)
• اَلْأَسْمَاء الْخَمْسَة‎ (al-ʾasmāʾ al-ḵamsa, “the five nouns”)
• اِسْم اِسْتِفْهَام‎ (ism istifhām, “pronomen interrogativum”)
• اِسْم إِشَارَة‎ (ism ʾišāra, “pronomen demonstrativum”)
• اِسْم مَوْصُول‎ (ism mawṣūl, “pronomen relativum”)
• اِسْم عَدَد‎ (ism ʿadad, “nomen numeri”)
• اِسْم تَصْغِير‎ (ism taṣḡīr, “nomen deminutivum”)
• اِسْمِيّ‎ (ismiyy, “nominal, titular”)
• سَمَّى‎ (sammā, “to name”)
• أَسْمَى‎ (ʾasmā, “to name”)

• Cypriot Arabic: اِسْمْ‎‎ (ism)
• Hijazi Arabic: اِسِم‎ (isim)
• Maltese: isem
• Tunisian Arabic: اِسْمْ‎‎ (ism)
• → Azerbaijani: ایسیم‎, isim (or via Persian)
• → Bashkir: исем (isem)
• → Kabyle: isem
• → Malay: اسم‎, isim
• → Persian: اسم‎ (esm)
  • Tajik: исм (ism)
    • → Uzbek: ism
  • → Hindi: इस्म (isma)
  • → Urdu: اسم‎
  • → Ottoman Turkish: اسم‎
    • → Turkish: isim
• → Uyghur: ئىسىم‎ (isim) (or via Persian)

See the etymology of the main entry.

• IPA^(key): /us.mu/

اُسْمُ • (usmu) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of سَمَا‎ (samā)

• Freytag, Georg (1833), “اسم”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 359–360
• Carter, Michael George (2017), “The Seven Deadly Sins of Arabic Studies”, in Manuel Sartori, Manuela E. B. Giolfo, Philippe Cassuto, editors, Approaches to the History and Dialectology of Arabic in Honor of Pierre Larcher (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics; 88), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 519–521
• Kasher, Almog (1 October 2009), “Term Ism in Medieval Arabic Grammatical Tradition: A Hyponym of Itself”, in Journal of Semitic Studies‎, Oxford Academix, retrieved 26 October 2018
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “سم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

اسم (isim)

1. Alternative spelling of ایسیم‎

From Arabic اِسْم‎ (ism)

• IPA^(key): /isim/, [e̞se̞m]

اِسِم • (isim) m

(plural أسماء‎ ‎(ʼasmāʼ))

1. name

• isim

From Arabic اِسْم‎ (ism), from Proto-Semitic *šim-.

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /isem/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /isɪm/
• Rhymes: -isem, -sem, -em

اسم (Rumi spelling isim‎)

1. name (word or phrase indicating a particular person, place, class or thing)

• nama / نام‎

Borrowed from Persian اسم‎ (esm), from Arabic اِسْم‎ (ism), from Proto-Semitic *šim-.

اسم • (ism, isim)

1. name
2. (grammar) noun

• آد‎ (ad)

From Arabic اِسْم‎ (ism), from Proto-Semitic *šim-.

• IPA^(key): [ʔesm]
• IPA^(key): /esm/

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اسم • (esm) (plural اسم‌ها‎ (esm-hâ) or اسامی‎ (asâmi))

1. name
2. appellation
3. (grammar) noun

• (grammar): اسم خاص‎

• نام‎ (nâm)

اِسْمْ‎ (ʾism) m

1. name

   ‏شِسْمِكْ ؟‎‎

   šismik

   What's your name?

2. noun
3. title

   ‏مَا خْتَارِشْ اِسْمْ بَاهِي لِكْتَابُو‎

   mā ḫtāriš ʾism bāhī liktābū

   He didn't choose a good title for his book

4. first name

Borrowing from Sanskrit [Term?].

اسم • (asam) (Hindi spelling असम)

1. unequal
2. uneven
3. dissimilar
4. unusual

Ultimately from Arabic اِسْم‎ (ism), from Proto-Semitic *šim-.

اسم • (ism) m (Hindi spelling इस्म)

1. name, appellation, designation
2. (grammar) noun, substantive

• نام‎ (nām)