نغمة

See also: نغمه, نغمہ, and نعمة

Arabic

Etymology

Together with نَغْم (naḡm) of similar meaning, if this is not just the verbal noun of form I, borrowed from Aramaic ܢܶܥܡܐ (neʿmā), נעמתה / ܢܶܥܡܬ݂ܳܐ (neʿmṯā), reinterpreted after the root cognate to the Arabic ن ع م (n-ʕ-m) from Ancient Greek νεῦμα (neûma), mixed with πνεῦμα (pneûma), assuming the musical meanings of the neume term aren’t a loan from Semitic into Greek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /naɣ.ma/

Noun

نَغْمَة • (naḡma) f (plural أَنْغَام (ʔanḡām) or أَنَاغِيم (ʔanāḡīm) or نَغَمَات (naḡamāt))

1. melody, tone, sound

Declension

Declension of noun نَغْمَة (naḡma)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	نَغْمَة naḡma	النَّغْمَة an-naḡma	نَغْمَة naḡmat
Nominative	نَغْمَةٌ naḡmatun	النَّغْمَةُ an-naḡmatu	نَغْمَةُ naḡmatu
Accusative	نَغْمَةً naḡmatan	النَّغْمَةَ an-naḡmata	نَغْمَةَ naḡmata
Genitive	نَغْمَةٍ naḡmatin	النَّغْمَةِ an-naḡmati	نَغْمَةِ naḡmati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	نَغْمَتَيْن naḡmatayn	النَّغْمَتَيْن an-naḡmatayn	نَغْمَتَيْ naḡmatay
Nominative	نَغْمَتَانِ naḡmatāni	النَّغْمَتَانِ an-naḡmatāni	نَغْمَتَا naḡmatā
Accusative	نَغْمَتَيْنِ naḡmatayni	النَّغْمَتَيْنِ an-naḡmatayni	نَغْمَتَيْ naḡmatay
Genitive	نَغْمَتَيْنِ naḡmatayni	النَّغْمَتَيْنِ an-naḡmatayni	نَغْمَتَيْ naḡmatay
Plural	basic broken plural triptote‎; basic broken plural diptote‎; sound feminine plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أَنْغَام‎; أَنَاغِيم‎; نَغَمَات ʔanḡām‎; ʔanāḡīm‎; naḡamāt	الْأَنْغَام‎; الْأَنَاغِيم‎; النَّغَمَات al-ʔanḡām‎; al-ʔanāḡīm‎; an-naḡamāt	أَنْغَام‎; أَنَاغِيم‎; نَغَمَات ʔanḡām‎; ʔanāḡīm‎; naḡamāt
Nominative	أَنْغَامٌ‎; أَنَاغِيمُ‎; نَغَمَاتٌ ʔanḡāmun‎; ʔanāḡīmu‎; naḡamātun	الْأَنْغَامُ‎; الْأَنَاغِيمُ‎; النَّغَمَاتُ al-ʔanḡāmu‎; al-ʔanāḡīmu‎; an-naḡamātu	أَنْغَامُ‎; أَنَاغِيمُ‎; نَغَمَاتُ ʔanḡāmu‎; ʔanāḡīmu‎; naḡamātu
Accusative	أَنْغَامًا‎; أَنَاغِيمَ‎; نَغَمَاتٍ ʔanḡāman‎; ʔanāḡīma‎; naḡamātin	الْأَنْغَامَ‎; الْأَنَاغِيمَ‎; النَّغَمَاتِ al-ʔanḡāma‎; al-ʔanāḡīma‎; an-naḡamāti	أَنْغَامَ‎; أَنَاغِيمَ‎; نَغَمَاتِ ʔanḡāma‎; ʔanāḡīma‎; naḡamāti
Genitive	أَنْغَامٍ‎; أَنَاغِيمَ‎; نَغَمَاتٍ ʔanḡāmin‎; ʔanāḡīma‎; naḡamātin	الْأَنْغَامِ‎; الْأَنَاغِيمِ‎; النَّغَمَاتِ al-ʔanḡāmi‎; al-ʔanāḡīmi‎; an-naḡamāti	أَنْغَامِ‎; أَنَاغِيمِ‎; نَغَمَاتِ ʔanḡāmi‎; ʔanāḡīmi‎; naḡamāti

Derived terms

• نَغَمَ (naḡama) and نَغِمَ (naḡima, “to hum, to recite in a modulating voice”)
• نَغَّمَ (naḡḡama, “to recite melodiously”)
• نَاغِمَ (nāḡima, “to speak softly to”)
• تَنَغَّمَ (tanaḡḡama, “to recite melodiously”)

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: nəğmə
• → Kyrgyz: наама (naama)
• → Ottoman Turkish: نغمه (nağme)
  • Turkish: nağme
• → Persian: نغمه (nağme)
  • → Hindustani: naġmā
    • Hindi: नग़मा
    • Urdu: نَغمَہ
• → Turkmen: nagma
• → Uzbek: nagʻma

References

• “نغمة” in Almaany
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “نغمة”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 306a–b
• Löw, Immanuel (1911) “Lexikalische Miszellen”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes‎^[2] (in German), volume 25, pages 190–193, Nr. 5, but there Imm. Löw and Theodor Nöldeke opine that the Arabic word is genuine, presumably because of skepticism about Arabic غ (ḡ) reflecting Aramaic ע / ܥ (ʿ), but Wiktionary has not few other examples in its lists of Aramaisms or Syriacisms in Arabic, and the acquaintance with Graeco-Arabica has also widened.
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “نغمة”, 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^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1302–1303
• “nˁm²”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–