Proto-Semitic root
*nʕm
‘to be good’
di Mino’s gloss: to be good, pleasant, gracious; favour
Record 2611 ↗ · SED semet 3146 · Basis: SED
In Linear A3 entries
Reflexes10 languages
East Semitic1
- Eblaitic/naʿmūt/: names na-mu-ud, na-mu-du (Sanmartín GlOS 2, 70)/-naʿim/: name ì-lum-na-im (Krebernik 1988, 45)gloss withheld
Northwest Semitic6
- Ugariticnʕm (Kogan 2015, ch. 3 §5.2 no. 40)gloss withheld
- Phoeniciannʕmnʿm (HALOT 704, 705)mnʿm (T 187)nʿmt (T 217)gloss withheld
- Hebrewnaʿem ‘pleasant’Anderson–Moser 2024 root nʿm
- PunicnʿmN.Pu. nʿmm (T 216)N.Pu. nʿmt (T 217)Neo-Punic nema (Krahmalkov 330)gloss withheldAnderson–Moser 2024 root nʿm
- Judaic Aramaicnᵉʿīmā (HALOT 704)
- Amoritenʿm: naʿimum, naʿmum, niʿimatum, niʿima (Gelb AS 21, 26)naʿmu, niʿmu, nuʿmu, niʿimu (Buck 2019, 329–330)gloss withheld
Arabic2
- Pre-Islamic North ArabianSafaitic nʿmnʿmtnʿm (D) (Al-Jallad 2026, 98)gloss withheld
- Arabicnʕm ‘be good, pleasant’ (Lane 3035)
Epigraphic South Arabian1
- Epigraphic South ArabianSab nʿm (Biella 308)Sab nʿm (Biella 308; Sabaweb lemma 1538)Sab nʿm (SD 90; Sabaweb lemma 3090)gloss withheld
† Gloss withheld: the cited dictionary’s licence is closed, so its form and page stand without its gloss.