ك م ن

Arabic

Root

ك م ن • (k-m-n)

1. related to absconsion, louring

Derived terms

• Form I: كَمَنَ (kamana, “to be hidden, to be absconded, to lie undetected, to reside, to lurk, to bushwhack, to lour”)
  • Verbal noun: كُمُون (kumūn)
  • Active participle: كَامِن (kāmin)
• Form I: كَمِنَ (kamina, “to be hidden, to be absconded, to lie undetected, to reside, to lurk, to bushwhack, to lour”)
  • Verbal noun: كُمُون (kumūn)
  • Active participle: ?
• Form II: كَمَّنَ (kammana, “to ambuscade, to bushwhack, to insidiate towards”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكْمِين (takmīn)
  • Active participle: مُكَمِّن (mukammin)
  • Passive participle: مُكَمَّن (mukamman)
• Form IV: أَكْمَنَ (ʔakmana, “to abscond; to insidiate towards”)
  • Verbal noun: إِكْمَان (ʔikmān)
  • Active participle: مُكْمِن (mukmin)
  • Passive participle: مُكْمَن (mukman)
• Form V: تَكَمَّنَ (takammana, “to lour, to hide oneself”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكَمُّن (takammun)
  • Active participle: مُتَكَمِّن (mutakammin)
• Form VIII: اِكْتَمَنَ (iktamana, “to hide oneself; to hide”)
  • Verbal noun: اِكْتِمَان (iktimān)
  • Active participle: مُكْتَمِن (muktamin)
  • Passive participle: مُكْتَمَن (muktaman)
• Form X: اِسْتَكْمَنَ (istakmana, “to lie hidden”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِكْمَان (istikmān)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَكْمِن (mustakmin)

• كَمِين (kamīn, “ambush; absconded”)
• كُمْنَة (kumna, “amaurosis”)
• مَكْمَن (makman, “place where something resides or hides”)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ك م ن”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 490
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ك م ن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 60
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ك م ن”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 930–931
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ك م ن”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: W.H. Allen, pages 895–896
• Wahrmund, Adolf (1887) “ك م ن”, in Handwörterbuch der neu-arabischen und deutschen Sprache‎^[5] (in German), volume 2, Gießen: J. Ricker’sche Buchhandlung, page 596
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ك م ن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 985–986
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ك م ن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[6] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1121