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هم

هم

See also: ہم

Arabic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hʊm/

Pronoun

هُمْ (hum) m pl (enclitic form ـهُم (-hum) or ـهِم (-him))

  1. they (masculine plural subject pronoun)
See also

Etymology 2

Suffix

ـهُمْ or ـهِمْ (-hum or -him) m pl (enclitic form of هُم (hum))

  1. them, their (masculine plural bound object pronoun)

Etymology 3

Verb

هَمَّ (hamma) I, non-past يَهُمُّ‎ (yahummu)

  1. to disquiet, to make uneasy, to distress
  2. to grieve
  3. to preoccupy, to concern, to affect
  4. to be of interest
Conjugation
References
  • Wehr, Hans (1976), هم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-001-8

Etymology 4

Noun

هَمّ (hamm) m (plural هُمُوم (humūm))

  1. verbal noun of هَمَّ (hamma) (form I)
  2. anxiety, concern, worry, care
  3. sorrow, grief, affliction, distress
  4. weight, moment, importance
Declension

Etymology 5

Adjective

هِمّ (himm) (feminine هِمَّة (himma), masculine plural أَهْمَام (ʾahmām), feminine plural هَمَائِم (hamāʾim) or هِمَّات (himmāt))

  1. decrepit, senile
Declension
References
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), هم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-003-4

Noun

هِمّ (himm) m (plural أَهْمَام (ʾahmām), feminine هِمَّة (himma))

  1. old man
Declension
References
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), هم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-003-4

Egyptian Arabic

Pronoun

هم (humm) pl

  1. they

Suffix

ـهم (-hum) pl

  1. them, their

Persian

Alternative forms

  • ـم (-am) (colloquial)

Etymology

From Middle Persian hm (ham, also, same), from Old Persian 𐏃𐎶 (ham(a), same, together), from Proto-Iranian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-Iranian [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *somHós (same) (compare English same).

Pronunciation

Adverb

هم (ham)

  1. also, too
    از این کتاب هم خوشم می‌آد.
    Az in ketâb am xošam mi-âd.
    I like this book, also.
  2. similarly

Usage notes

هم (ham) directly follows the word or phrase it modifies.

از این کتاب هم خوشم می‌آد.
Az in ketâb am xošam mi-âd.
I like this book, also.
من هم از این کتاب خوشم می‌آد.
Man am az in ketâb xošam mi-âd.
I also like this book.

Derived terms

References

  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “ham”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 39

Tunisian Arabic

Suffix

ـهُمْ (-hum) pl

  1. them, their