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שום

שום

Aramaic

Noun

שום (šum)

  1. Singular construct of שְׁמָא (šəmā)

Hebrew

Etymology 1

See under שָׂם (sám).

Verb

שׂוּם (sum) or שׂוֹם (som)

  1. bare infinitive of שָׂם (sam)
    • Jeremiah 42:15, with translation of the English Standard Version:
      אִם אַתֶּם שׂוֹם תְּשִׂמוּן פְּנֵיכֶם לָבֹא מִצְרַיִם
      im atém som t'simún p'nechém lavó mitsráyim
      If you set your faces to enter Egypt
    • Haggai 2:15, with Young's Literal Translation:
      מִטֶּרֶם שׂוּם אֶבֶן אֶל אֶבֶן בְּהֵיכַל יהוה
      mitérem sum éven el éven b'hechál YHVH
      Before the laying of stone to stone in the temple of Jehovah

Etymology 2

From Aramaic שֻׁם (šum), indefinite and construct form of שְׁמָא (š'mā, name). The determiner is an extension of the noun.

Determiner

שׁוּם (shum)

  1. Some, any; found chiefly in negative contexts, as well as questions and conditional constructs.
Derived terms
  • בשום אופן (b'shúm-ófen), בשום עניין ואופן (b'shúm inyán va'ófen), בשום פנים (b'shúm paním), בשום פנים ואופן (b'shúm paním va'ófen)
  • שום דבר (shum davár)

Noun

שׁוּם (shum)

  1. Name, sake, purpose, cause; found exclusively, or nearly so, in various fixed expressions.
Derived terms
  • לְשׁוּם (l'shúm)
  • מִשּׁוּם (mishúm), מִשּׁוּם מַה (mishúm ma), מִשּׁוּם שֶׁ־ (mishúm she-)
  • עַל שׁוּם מַה (al shum ma), עַל שׁוּם (al shum)

Etymology 3

From Proto-Semitic *θūm-; cognate with Akkadian 𒋧 (šūmū), Aramaic תּוּמָא (tūmā), Arabic ثُوم (ṯūm).

Noun

שׁוּם (shum) m

  1. garlic

Anagrams

References

  • שום” in Abraham Even-Shoshan (אַבְרָהָם אֶבֶן־שֹׁשָן) et al., הַמִּלּוֹן הֶחָדָשׁ (ha-milón he-khadásh, The New Dictionary), Kiryat-Sefer Ltd. (קִרְיַת־סֵפֶר בְּע״ם) (1984), ISBN 965-17-0084-X, volume 3 of 3 (ק to ת), page 1339.