SLOnline

أٞضْهِيم

éẓ̂him

basic morphological information

n. (m.)

darkness
темнота
ظلام

LS 71; CSOL I 699; CSOL II 399

text examples

gédaḥ méľik men tɛr tóˀo gédaḥ ŝíni éẓ̂him ṭéˀef ‘The king came in from outside. He saw darkness and groped along’ (CSOL I 26:111)

root

ˀẓ̂m

derivates

ˀeẓ̂ími in ḷe-ˀeẓ̂ími in the night

etymology

Etymologically obscure. Leslau’s comparison to Arb. taˀaṭṭumu l-layli ‘darkness of the night’ suggested in LS 71 cannot be accepted for phonological reasons. Cf. perhaps Arb. ˀaḍam- ‘anger’, with an unusual, but conceivable semantic development.