ك ر م

Arabic

Etymology

The Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou speculates that the West-Semites have come to use this root because of the excelling suitability of the vine-plant, كَرْمة (karma), for the production of fermented beverages.

Root

ك ر م • (k-r-m)

1. Related to nobility

Derived terms

Verbs and verbal derivatives

• Form I: كَرُمَ (karuma, “to be noble”)
  • Verbal noun: كَرَم (karam), كَرَامَة (karāma)
• Form II: كَرَّمَ (karrama, “to call (someone) noble”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكْرِيم (takrīm)
  • Active participle: مُكَرِّم (mukarrim)
  • Passive participle: مُكَرَّم (mukarram, “honored”)
• Form III: كَارَمَ (kārama, “to vie (someone) in generosity; to treat with generosity”)
  • Verbal noun: مُكَارَمَة (mukārama), كِرَام (kirām)
  • Active participle: مُكَارِم (mukārim)
  • Passive participle: مُكَارَم (mukāram)
• Form IV: أَكْرَمَ (ʔakrama, “to honor, to make comfortable”)
  • Verbal noun: إِكْرَام (ʔikrām, “hospitality, hospitable reception”)
  • Active participle: مُكْرِم (mukrim)
  • Passive participle: مُكْرَم (mukram)
• Form V: تَكَرَّمَ (takarrama, “to show one's generous side, to be so kind (على) in behalf of someone”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكَرُّم (takarrum)
  • Active participle: مُتَكَرِّم (mutakarrim)
  • Passive participle: مُتَكَرَّم (mutakarram)
• Form VI: تَكَارَمَ (takārama, “to show with generosity to each other”)
  • Verbal noun: تَكَارُم (takārum)
  • Active participle: مُتَكَارِم (mutakārim)

Nouns and adjectives

• كَرِيم (karīm, “noble, generous”)

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 1100–1101
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ك ر م”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 459–460
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ك ر م”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 28–29
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ك ر م”, 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^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 888–890
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ك ر م”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 962–963