שום

Aramaic

Noun

שום • (šum)

  1. singular construct state of שְׁמָא (šəmā)

Hebrew

Etymology 1

See under שָׂם (sám).

Verb

שׂוּם • (sum) or שׂוֹם • (som)

  1. bare infinitive of שָׂם (sam)
    • Tanach, Jeremiah 42:15, with translation of the English Standard Version:
      אִם אַתֶּם שׂוֹם תְּשִׂמוּן פְּנֵיכֶם לָבֹא מִצְרַיִם
      im atém som t'simún p'nechém lavó mitsráyim
      If you set your faces to enter Egypt
    • Tanach, Haggai 2:15, with Young's Literal Translation:
      מִטֶּרֶם שׂוּם אֶבֶן אֶל אֶבֶן בְּהֵיכַל יהוה
      mitérem sum éven el éven b'hechál YHVH
      Before the laying of stone to stone in the temple of Jehovah
Further reading

Etymology 2

From Aramaic שֻׁם (šum), indefinite and construct form of שְׁמָא (š'mā, name). The determiner is an extension of the noun.

Determiner

שׁוּם • (shúm)

  1. Some, any; found chiefly in negative contexts, as well as questions and conditional constructs.
    שום דבר לא קרה.shúm davár ló kará.Nothing happened.
    לא [] בשום צורה שהיא [] b'shúm tsurá shehínot [] in any way
    אין לי שום בעיה עם זה.éin lí shúm b'ayá ím zé.I don't have any problem with that.
Derived terms
  • בשום אופן (b'shúm-ófen), בשום עניין ואופן (b'shúm inyán va'ófen), בשום פנים (b'shúm paním), בשום פנים ואופן (b'shúm paním va'ófen)
  • שום דבר (shum davár)

Noun

שׁוּם • (shum)

  1. Name, sake, purpose, cause; found exclusively, or nearly so, in various fixed expressions.
Derived terms
  • לְשׁוּם (l'shúm)
  • מִשּׁוּם (mishúm), מִשּׁוּם מַה (mishúm ma), מִשּׁוּם שֶׁ־ (mishúm she-)
  • עַל שׁוּם מַה (al shum ma), עַל שׁוּם (al shum)

Etymology 3

Root
שׁ־ו־ם (š-w-m)

From Proto-Semitic *ṯūm-; cognate with Akkadian 𒋧 (šūmū), Aramaic תּוּמָא (tūmā), Arabic ثُوم (ṯūm).

Noun

שׁוּם • (shum) m

  1. garlic

References

Further reading

Anagrams

Yiddish

Etymology

From Hebrew שׁוּם (some, any (in negative contexts)), from Aramaic שֻׁם.

Adverb

שום • (shum)

  1. not at all (intensifies a negative construction)
    איך האָב נישט קיין שום רויז!
    ikh hob nisht keyn shum royz!
    I don't have a single rose!
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