ن ظ م

See also: نظم

Arabic

Etymology

Prefixed from ض م م (ḍ-m-m). Attribution of نِظَام (niẓām, “order; a kind of rope on which beads are rowed”) to ancestors of Persian نیام (niyâm, “scabbard”), of which the other formations within the root would be denominal, is hardly acceptable.

Root

ن ظ م • (n-ẓ-m)

1. forms words related to organizing, organization, arrangement, orderliness or composition

Derived terms

• Form I: نَظَمَ (naẓama)
  • Verbal noun: نَظْم (naẓm)
  • Active participle: نَاظِم (nāẓim)
  • Passive participle: مَنْظُوم (manẓūm)
• Form II: نَظَّمَ (naẓẓama)
  • Verbal noun: تَنْظِيم (tanẓīm)
  • Active participle: مُنَظِّم (munaẓẓim)
  • Passive participle: مُنَظَّم (munaẓẓam)
• Form V: تَنَظَّمَ (tanaẓẓama)
  • Verbal noun: تَنَظُّم (tanaẓẓum)
  • Active participle: مُتَنَظِّم (mutanaẓẓim)
  • Passive participle: مُتَنَظَّم (mutanaẓẓam)
• Form VI: تَنَاظَمَ (tanāẓama)
  • Verbal noun: تَنَاظُم (tanāẓum)
  • Active participle: مُتَنَاظِم (mutanāẓim)
  • Passive participle: مُتَنَاظَم (mutanāẓam)
• Form VIII: اِنْتَظَمَ (intaẓama)
  • Verbal noun: اِنْتِظَام (intiẓām)
  • Active participle: مُنْتَظِم (muntaẓim)
  • Passive participle: مُنْتَظَم (muntaẓam)

• نَظْم (naẓm)
• نَاظِم (nāẓim, “versifier”)
• نَظَّام (naẓẓām, “versifier”)
• نِظَام (niẓām)
• نَظِيم (naẓīm)
• مَنْظَم (manẓam)
• مُنَظَّمَة (munaẓẓama)
• مَنْظُومَة (manẓūma)

Further reading

• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ن ظ م”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 299–300