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ضم

ضم

See also: صم

Arabic

Verb

ضَمَّ (ḍamma) I, non-past يَضُمُّ‎ (yaḍummu)

  1. to gather, hoard, join, bring near
  2. to concentrate, centralize
  3. to gird
  4. to compress the lips
  5. to mark or pronounce with damma
Conjugation
References
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), ضم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979), ضم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-003-4

Etymology 2

Noun

ضَمّ (ḍamm) m

  1. verbal noun of ضَمَّ (ḍamma, to gather) (form I)
  2. gathering, hoarding, joining
  3. concentrating, centralizing
  4. girding
  5. (linguistics) the sound of short /u/, indicated in writing by a damma
Declension
References