إبهام

• IPA^(key): /ib.haːm/
• Rhymes: -aːm

Verbal noun of أَبْهَمَ (ʔabhama, “to make obscure”) from ب ه م (b h m).

إِبْهَام • (ʔibhām) m

1. verbal noun of أَبْهَمَ (ʔabhama, “to make obscure”) (form IV)
2. obscurity, vagueness, ambiguity

• → Lisan ud-Dawat Gujarati: ابهام (ibhām)
• → Persian: ابهام (ebhâm)
• → Urdu: ابہام (ibhām)

With labial assimilation – not found in بَنَان (banān, “fingers”) – related to Akkadian 𒋗𒅆 (ubānum, “finger”), Eblaite 𒁀𒂍𒈝 (ba-ʾà-núm /⁠bahānum⁠/), Hebrew בֹּהֶן (bṓhen, “thumb”), Mehri hābḗn (“thumb”), Harsusi ḥābēn.

إِبْهَام • (ʔibhām) f (dual إِبْهَامَانِ (ʔibhāmāni), plural أَبَاهِيم (ʔabāhīm))

1. thumb
2. big toe

• ⇒ Maltese: behem