تشاءم

• IPA^(key): /ta.ʃaː.ʔa.ma/

تَشَاءَمَ • (tašāʔama) VI (non-past يَتَشَاءَمُ (yatašāʔamu), verbal noun تَشَاؤُم (tašāʔum))

1. to be pessimistic [with مِنْ (min) or بِ (bi)]

   Antonym: تَفَاءَلَ (tafāʔala)

   • 1962, Ghassan Kanafani, رجال في الشمس [Men in the Sun]:

     لَيْسَ لِأَنَّ أُمَّهُ تَتَشَاءَمُ مِنَ ٱلْكَلِمَاتِ ٱلْمَشْطُوبَةِ فَقَطْ، بَلْ لِأَنَّهُ كَانَ لَا يُرِيدُ ذٰلِكَ أَيْضًا، وَبِبَسَاطَةٍ.

     laysa liʔanna ʔummahu tatašāʔamu mina l-kalimāti l-mašṭūbati faqaṭ, bal liʔannahu kāna lā yurīdu ḏālika ʔayḍan, wabibasāṭatin.

     Not only because his mother would see the crossed-out words as a bad omen, but also, quite simply, because he didn’t want to.