Arabic

Root

ج م ع ‎(j-m-ʿ)

1. related to gathering or collecting

Derived terms

Verbs

• Form I: جَمَعَ ‎(jamaʿa, “to gather, unite, compile, collect, summarize, rally, accumulate, convene, add up, make plural, combine, contain”)
  • Verbal noun: جَمْع ‎(jamʿ, “gathering, collection, combination, connection, accumulation, integration, addition, plural”)
  • Active participle: جَامِع ‎(jāmiʿ, “comprehensive, extensive, broad, general, universal; compiler, collector, typesetter, large mosque”)
  • Passive participle: مَجْمُوع ‎(majmūʿ)
• Form II: جَمَّعَ ‎(jammaʿa, “to accumulate, rally, collect, combine, consolidate”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجْمِيع ‎(tajmīʿ)
  • Active participle: مُجَمِّع ‎(mujammiʿ, “collector (in technology)”)
  • Passive participle: مُجَمَّع ‎(mujammaʿ, “consolidated, combined”)
• Form III: جَامَعَ ‎(jāmaʿa, “to have sexual intercourse”)
  • Verbal noun: مُجَامَعَة ‎(mujāmaʿa, “sexual intercourse”), جِمَاع ‎(jimāʿ, “sexual intercourse”)
  • Active participle: مُجَامِع ‎(mujāmiʿ)
  • Passive participle: مُجَامَع ‎(mujāmaʿ)
• Form IV: أَجْمَعَ ‎(ʾajmaʿa, “to agree, decide unanimously, resolve”)
  • Verbal noun: إِجْمَاع ‎(ʾijmāʿ, “agreement, unanimity, resolution (to do something), consensus”)
  • Active participle: مُجْمِع ‎(mujmiʿ)
  • Passive participle: مُجْمَع ‎(mujmaʿ)
• Form V: تَجَمَّعَ ‎(tajammaʿa, “to gather, congregate, accumulate, be combined, coagulate (intrans.)”)
  • Verbal noun: تَجَمُّع ‎(tajammuʿ, “meeting, gathering, assembly, congregation, crowd, aggregate”)
  • Active participle: مُتَجَمِّع ‎(mutajammiʿ)
• Form VIII: اِجْتَمَعَ ‎(ijtamaʿa, “to be close together, meet, unite, assemble, agree”)
  • Verbal noun: اِجْتِمَاع ‎(ijtimāʿ, “meeting, assembly, convention, constellation, confluence, community life, human society”)
  • Active participle: مُجْتَمِع ‎(mujtamiʿ, “participants of a meeting”)
  • Passive participle: مُجْتَمَع ‎(mujtamaʿ, “gathering or meeting place”)
• Form X: اِسْتَجْمَعَ ‎(istajmaʿa, “to gather, summarize, possess”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِجْمَاع ‎(istijmāʿ)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَجْمِع ‎(mustajmiʿ)
  • Passive participle: مُسْتَجْمَع ‎(mustajmaʿ)

Nouns and adjectives

• يَوْمُ ٱلْجُمْعَةِ ‎(yawmu l-jumʿati), الْجُمْعَة ‎(al-jumʿa, “Friday”)
• جَمْعِيّ ‎(jamʿiyy, “collective, social, common, joint, mutual”)
  • جَمْعِيَّة ‎(jamʿiyya, “club, association, society, corporation, organization, assembly”)
• جَمِيع ‎(jamīʿ, “whole, total, entire, all”)
  • أَجْمَع ‎(ʾajmaʿ, “whole, entire, all”)
• جَمَّاع ‎(jammāʿ, “typesetter”)
• جُمَّاع ‎(jummāʿ, “aggregate, total”)
• جَمَاعَة ‎(jamāʿa, “group of people”)
  • جَمَاعِيّ ‎(jamāʿiyy, “social, common, joint, mutual, collective”)
• مَجمَع ‎(“meeting, assembly, convention”)
  • مَجمَعِيّ ‎(“academy member”)
• اِجْتِمَاعِيّ ‎(ijtimāʿiyy, “of a community, group, society, or corporation”, adjective)
  • اِجْتِمَاعِيَّة ‎(ijtimāʿiyya, “socialism”)
• جَامِعَة ‎(jāmiʿa, “league, community, federation, communion, university”)
  • جَامِعِيّ ‎(jāmiʿiyy, “academic, collegiate; university (in compounds)”)
• عِلْمُ ٱلْاِجْتِمَاعِ ‎(ʿilmu l-ijtimāʿi, “sociology”)
• مَجْمُوعَة ‎(majmūʿa, “group”)

Adverbs

• جَمِيعًا ‎(jamīʿan, “all together”)

References

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “ج م ع”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-003-4