كرم

كَرُمَ • (karuma) I (non-past يَكْرُمُ (yakrumu), verbal noun كَرَم (karam) or كَرَمَة (karama) or كَرَامَة (karāma))

1. to be or become noble

   Antonym: لَؤُمَ (laʔuma)

2. to be or become generous

   Antonym: بَخِلَ (baḵila)

3. to be or become precious

كَرَّمَ • (karrama) II (non-past يُكَرِّمُ (yukarrimu), verbal noun تَكْرِيم (takrīm))

1. to call (someone) noble
2. to honor, to venerate
3. to exalt

كَرَم • (karam) m

1. verbal noun of كَرُمَ (karuma) (form I)
2. nobleness, kindness
3. generosity

   Synonym: سَخَاء (saḵāʔ)

   • 2018 July 6, “رئيس الجمهورية يزور مدينة “عرتا” الجيبوتية [The President of the Republic visits the town of ʿartā of Djibouti]”, in وكالة الأنباء الوطنية الصومالية [Somali National News Agency]‎^[1], archived from the original on 27 January 2019:

     لمدينة عرتا لها ذاكرة في قلوب الصوماليين، حيث إحتضنت نقبة كبيرة من المجتمع الصومالي، وأنها أصبحت رمزا للكرم والسخاء.

     li-madīnati ʕartā la-hā ḏākiratun fī qulūbi ṣ-ṣūmāliyyīna, ḥayṯu ḥtaḍanat naqbatan kabīratan mina l-mujtamaʕi ṣ-ṣūmāliyyi, wa-ʔanna-hā ʔaṣbaḥat ramzan li-l-karami wa-s-saḵāʔi.

     The town of ʿartā is of avid memory with the Somalis in that it embraced a large swathe of Somali society and became a symbol of openhandedness and generosity.

• → Azerbaijani: kərəm
• → Swahili: karamu (“banquet, celebration”)
  • → English: karamu
• → Ottoman Turkish: كرم (kerem)
  • Turkish: kerem
• → Spanish: encaramar (“to climb, to lift”)
• → Uyghur: كەرەم (kerem)
• → Uzbek: karam

Compare Ugaritic 𐎋𐎗𐎎 (krm, “vineyard”), Aramaic כַּרְמָא (karmā, “vineyard”), Hebrew כֶּרֶם (kérem, “vineyard”), Akkadian 𒃾 (karānum, “wine, vine, grapes”), and the possible etymon Egyptian kꜣm. Due to the small difference in the third consonant of the Akkadian form, the Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou suggests a borrowing from a language of Anatolia, the same suspicion as for Proto-West Semitic *wayn- (“grape”), and additionally speculates that the homonymic root related to nobleness derived from the name of the vine plant.

كَرْم • (karm) m (collective, singulative كَرْمَة f (karma), plural كُرُوم (kurūm))

1. vineyard, vines, orchard

• → Ge'ez: ክርም (kərm)
• → Spanish: carmen

• 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) “كرم”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[2] (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 459–460
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “كرم”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[3] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 28–29
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “كرم”, 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^[4] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 888–890
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “كرم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 962–963

From Arabic كَرَم (karam).

كرم • (karim)

1. generous
2. noble

• Turkish: kerem

كرم • (Kerem)

1. a male given name, Kerem, from Arabic

From Arabic كَرَّمَ (karrama).

• IPA^(key): /kar.ram/, [ˈkar.ram]

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كرّم • (karram) II (present بكرّم (bikarrem))

1. to honor

   Synonym: أكرم (ʔakram)