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سام

سام

See also: شام

Arabic

Adjective

سَامٍ (sāmin) (informal سَامِي (sāmī), feminine سَامِيَة (sāmiya), masculine plural سُمَاة (sumāh), feminine plural سَامِيَات (sāmiyāt), elative أَسْمَى (ʾasmā))

  1. high, lofty
  2. exalted, sublime
  3. emanating from the sultan or vizier

Declension

References

  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), سام”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), سمو”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-003-4

Persian

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian (compare Avestan [script needed] (sāma, dark, black)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian (compare Sanskrit श्याम (śyāma)).

Proper noun

سام (Sâm)

  1. A male given name, Sam, Saam