ريم

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root ر ي م (r-y-m). Akin to Aramaic רָמָא (high; height, hill), Hebrew רָם (rām, high), רָמָה (rāmā, high place), Ugaritic 𐎗𐎎 (rm, high; high place). Related to Proto-Semitic *rayam- (to be high, to be raised).

Noun

رَيْم (raym) m

  1. excess, redundance, augment
  2. height, peak
Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

رَيْم (raym) m

  1. verbal noun of رَامَ (rāma, to depart from, to separate oneself from)
Declension

Verb

رِيمَ (rīma) (form I)

  1. third-person masculine singular past passive of رَامَ (rāma, to depart from, to separate oneself from)

Etymology 3

Verb

رِيمَ (rīma) (form I)

  1. third-person masculine singular past passive of رَامَ (rāma, to desire, to envisage)

Etymology 4

From the root ر ي م (r-y-m).

Verb

رَيَّمَ (rayyama) II, non-past يُرَيِّمُ‎ (yurayyimu)

  1. to stay, to bide, to remain [+ بِ (object)]
  2. to overflow, to spout forth
Conjugation

Etymology 5

From the root ر ي م (r-y-m) or ر و م (r-w-m), originally with the sense of climbing up higher, hence also away from others, to depart from, to separate oneself from, to avoid capture, to be wild or free. Related to Proto-Semitic *rayam- (to be high, to be raised); cognates with Hebrew רְאֵם (r'em, oryx, wild cows), Ugaritic 𐎗𐎜𐎎 (rủm, auroch, wild buffalo), Akkadian 𒄞𒄠 (/rimu/, wild bull, wild ass).

Alternative forms

  • رِئْم (riʾm)

Noun

رِيم (rīm) m (plural أَرْيَام (ʾaryām))

  1. wild member of the bovidae
  2. gazelle, antelope, oryx (sand gazelle Gazella leptoceros and goitered gazelle Gazella subgutturosa subsp. marica formerly Gazella marica)
Declension

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1833), ريم”, 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, page 104
  • Freytag, Georg (1833), ريم”, 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, page 218
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), ريم”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 998
  • Lane, Edward William (1863), ريم”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1203–1204
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), ريم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 441
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), ريم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 516
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