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نمط

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Arabic

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Aramaic נַמְטָא / ܢܡܛܐ (namṭā), from Middle Persian [script needed] (nmt' /⁠namad⁠/, felt, fibers), from Proto-Iranian *namatā- (cloth made of hairs).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /na.matˤ/ (noun)
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    (noun)

Noun

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نَمَط (namaṭm (plural أَنْمَاط (ʔanmāṭ) or نِمَاط (nimāṭ) or أَنْمِطَة (ʔanmiṭa))

  1. (archaic, if not dialectal) drugget, a type of rug also laid over a saddle
    • a. 869, الْجَاحِظ [al-jāḥiẓ], “باب ما يُجلب من البلدان من طرائف السلع والأمتعة والجواري والأحجار وغير ذلك [What one imports from strange countries in items, commodities, she-slaves, stones and else.]”, in التَبَصُّر بِٱلتِّجَارَة [at-tabaṣṣur bi-t-tijāra]‎[1]:
      ومن مَيْسَان: الأَنْماط والوسائد.
      From Maysan one gets druggets and cushions.
    • a. 1000, المقدسي, edited by Michael Jan de Goeje, أحسن التقاسيم في معرفة الأقاليم [ʾaḥsan at-taqāsīm fī maʿrifa al-ʾaqālīm] (Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum; 3)‎[2], Leiden: E. J. Brill, published 1877, 1906, web 1/139, pages 380 line 8–10:
      ولا نظير لتككهم ومحفوريَّاتهم وقرمزهم وأنماطهم وصبغهم وفاكهة تسمَّى الزُّوقال وقسبويه وسمك يقال له الطِرِّيخ ولهم تين وشاه بلُّوط في غاية الجودة.
      There is nothing resembling their waistbands, their streaked rugs, their crimson, their druggets, their dyes, and the fruit called cornel, and their dentexes, and their fish called pearl mullet. And they have figs and chestnuts of finest quality.
  2. pattern, type, style, manner, mode, wise
    Synonym: شَاكِلَة (šākila)
  3. routine

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Derived terms

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Verb

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نَمَّطَ (nammaṭa) II (non-past يُنَمِّطُ (yunammiṭu), verbal noun تَنْمِيط (tanmīṭ))

  1. to profile, to stereotype, to standardize, to routinize

Conjugation

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References

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  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 102
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “نمط”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[3] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 339
  • Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, page 922
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “نمط”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1317
  • Worrell, William Hoyt (1935) “More about Arabic Terms for ”Rug””, in Ars Islamica, volume 2, number 1, →DOI, pages 67–68