كرم
Arabic
Etymology 1
From the root ك ر م (k-r-m).
Verb
كَرُمَ • (karuma) I, non-past يَكْرُمُ (yakrumu)
Conjugation
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Verb
كَرَّمَ • (karrama) II, non-past يُكَرِّمُ (yukarrimu)
Conjugation
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Noun
كَرَم • (karam) m
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (form I)
- nobleness, kindness
- generosity
- Synonym: سَخَاء (saḵāʔ)
- 2018 July 6, “رئيس الجمهورية يزور مدينة “عرتا” الجيبوتية [The President of the Republic visits the town of ʿartā of Djibouti]”, in وكالة الأنباء الوطنية الصومالية [Somali National News Agency], archived from the original on 2019-01-27:
- لمدينة عرتا لها ذاكرة في قلوب الصوماليين، حيث إحتضنت نقبة كبيرة من المجتمع الصومالي، وأنها أصبحت رمزا للكرم والسخاء.
- li-madīnati ʕartā la-hā ḏākiratun fī qulūbi ṣ-ṣūmāliyyīna, ḥayṯu ḥtaḍanat naqbatan kabīratan mina l-mujtamaʕi ṣ-ṣūmāliyyi, wa-ʔanna-hā ʔaṣbaḥat ramzan li-l-karami wa-s-saḵāʔi.
- The town of ʿartā is of avid memory with the Somalis in that it embraced a large swathe of Somali society and became a symbol of openhandedness and generosity.
Declension
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Descendants
- → Azerbaijani: kərəm
- → Swahili: karamu (“banquet, celebration”)
- Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
- → Spanish: encaramar (“to climb, to lift”)

Etymology 2
Compare Ugaritic 𐎋𐎗𐎎 (krm, “vineyard”), Aramaic כַּרְמָא (karmā, “vineyard”), Hebrew כֶּרֶם (kérem, “vineyard”), Akkadian 𒃾 (karānum, “wine, vine, grapes”), and the possible etymon Egyptian kꜣm. Due to the small difference in the third consonant of the Akkadian form, the Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou suggests a borrowing from a language of Anatolia, the same suspicion as for Proto-West Semitic *wayn- (“grape”), and additionally speculates that the homonymic root related to nobleness derived from the name of the vine plant.
Declension
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Descendants
- → Ge'ez: ክርም (kərm)
- → Spanish: carmen
References
- Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, pages 1100–1101
- Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “كرم”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 459–460
- Freytag, Georg (1837), “كرم”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 28–29
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “كرم”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, pages 888–890
- Wehr, Hans (1979), “كرم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 962–963
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Descendants
- Turkish: kerem
South Levantine Arabic
| Root |
|---|
| ك ر م |
| 2 terms |
Etymology
From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kar.ram/, [ˈkar.ram]
Audio (al-Lidd) (file)
Conjugation
| Conjugation of كرّم (karram) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |||||||
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
| past | m | كرّمت (karramt) | كرّمت (karramt) | كرّم (karram) | كرّمنا (karramna) | كرّمتو (karramtu) | كرّمو (karramu) | |
| f | كرّمتي (karramti) | كرّمت (karramat) | ||||||
| present | m | بكرّم (bakarrem) | بتكرّم (bitkarrem) | بكرّم (bikarrem) | منكرّم (minkarrem) | بتكرّمو (bitkarrmu) | بكرّمو (bikarrmu) | |
| f | بتكرّمي (bitkarrmi) | بتكرّم (bitkarrem) | ||||||
| subjunctive | m | اكرّم (akarrem) | تكرّم (tkarrem) | يكرّم (ykarrem) | نكرّم (nkarrem) | تكرّمو (tkarrmu) | يكرّمو (ykarrmu) | |
| f | تكرّمي (tkarrmi) | تكرّم (tkarrem) | ||||||
| imperative | m | كرّم (karrem) | كرّمو (karrmu) | |||||
| f | كرّمي (karrmi) | |||||||