m m l
20 lemmas · 7 languages
soundAll three consonants are regular𐡀 tg. Jon. 1 Kgs 1:14
Themes:kingdom· مَمْلَكَة · מַמְלָכָה·7country·5official·4name· اِسْم · שֵׁם·4asia·3
POS shape:noun·10name·7phrase·1adv·1verb·1
This root is attested across 7 Semitic languages in our index. Each section below shows representative lemmas; attested means a Wiktionary editor explicitly tagged the root, inferredmeans we derived it mechanically from the word's consonantal skeleton.
Etymology treehow this root diverged from Proto-Semitic through the family
*m-m-lProto-Semitic
West Semitic
Central Semitic
Northwest Semitic
Canaanite
Hebrewיַם הַמֶּלַחמ מ ל— Dead Sea (a lake in the Middle East in Palestine and Jordan, noted for high salinity and for its banks being the lowest land-based elevation on Earth)
Phoenician𐤌𐤌𐤋𐤊𐤕𐤌 𐤌 𐤋— kingdom
Aramaic
Imperial Aramaicממללאמ מ ל— speech, talk
Syriacܡܡܘܠܐܡ ܡ ܠ— flood, deluge, torrent, cataclysm
Assyrian NAܡܲܡܠܲܟ݂ܬܵܐܡ ܡ ܠ— kingdom
Arabic
Arabicمَمَالم م ل— verbal noun of مَالَ (māla) (form I)
South Semitic
Ethio-Semitic
Tigrinyaሞትמ መ ለ— death
Branch structure: Huehnergard (2005), Rubin (2010). The reconstructed Proto-Semitic form is computed on the fly from the cognate set's majority reflex pattern.
Phoenician
irregular reflexphn · 1 lemma- kingdom
Imperial Aramaic
arc · 1 lemma- speech, talk
Classical Syriac
syc · 1 lemma- flood, deluge, torrent, cataclysmFrom Hebrew מַבּוּל (mabbûl).
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
aii · 5 lemmas- kingdomNoun of place and Learned borrowing from Arabic مَمْلَكَة (mamlaka); cognate with Hebrew מַמְלָכָה (mamlakhá).
- physicist
- synonym of ܝܘܼܠܦܵܢ ܟܲܘܟ݂ܒ݂ܹ̈ܐ (yulpān kawḵḇē, “astronomy”)
- theology (study of God and of the truthfulness of religion)Learned borrowing from Classical Syriac ܡܡܠܠܘܬ ܐܠܗܘܬܐ.
- speak of the devilLiterally, “talking about the wolf, and the wolf is at the door”
Hebrew
he · 3 lemmas- Dead Sea (a lake in the Middle East in Palestine and Jordan, noted for high salinity and for its banks being the lowest land-based elevation on Earth)Literally, “sea of salt”, attested Biblically, from the lake's extreme salinity.
- day and night, continuously
- Maldives (an archipelago and country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean off the coast of India)
Arabic
ar · 8 lemmas- verbal noun of مَالَ (māla) (form I)
- verbal noun of مَالَ (māla) (form I)
- active participle of أَمَالَ (ʔamāla)
- Kingdom of Sweden (official name of Sweden: a country in Northern Europe)
- Kingdom of Belgium (official name of Belgium: a country in Western Europe)
- Kingdom of Bahrain (official name of Bahrain: an island country in West Asia, in the Persian Gulf)
- Kingdom of the Bahamas
- Kingdom of Cambodia (official name of Cambodia: a country in Southeast Asia)
Tigrinya
ti · 1 lemma- deathFrom Proto-Semitic *mawt-.