إشتيام

See also: اشتيام

Arabic

Etymology

From Aramaic אִישְׁתְּיָאמָא (ʾištyāmā) / ܐܸܫܬܝܵܡܵܐ (ʾeštyāmā, “captain”), assumed to be from Akkadian 𒊮𒌓 (ŠA₃.TAM /⁠šatammu⁠/, “administrator, chief accountant”), from Sumerian 𒊮𒌓 (ŠA₃.TAM /⁠šatam⁠/, “auditor, administration official”), having passed into Aramaic as */šətammā/ → */šətēmā/ → /ištēmā/, then misvocalized and spoken instead of אִשְׁתֵּימָא (ʾištēmā) as אִשְׁתְּיָמָא (ʾištyāmā) and written plene אִישְׁתְּיָאמָא (ʾištyāmā).

Noun

إِشْتِيَام • (ʔištiyām) m (plural أَشَاتِمَة (ʔašātima))

  1. (obsolete) captain, or specifically a supercargo
    Synonyms: رُبَّان (rubbān), قُبْطَان (qubṭān)

Declension

References

  • Agius, Dionisius A. (2008) Classic Ships of Islam. From Mesopotamia to the Indian Ocean (Handbook of Oriental Studies; 92), Leiden: Brill, page 328
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 222
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  • Ullmann, Manfred (1992) Das Motiv des Spiegels in der arabischen Literatur des Mittelalters (Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen: Philologisch-historische Klasse; 198) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pages 139–40
  • “ˀštym”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • “šatam [OFFICIAL]”, in The Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary‎, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
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