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 نَغَمَات (naḡamāt))

melody, tone, sound
ringtone, ellipsis of نَغْمَة رَنِين (naḡma(t) ranīn)

Declension

Declension of noun **نَغْمَة** (naḡma)
singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
singular	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	sound feminine plural
plural	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	نَغَمَات naḡamāt	النَّغَمَات an-naḡamāt	نَغَمَات naḡamāt
nominative	نَغَمَاتٌ naḡamātun	النَّغَمَاتُ an-naḡamātu	نَغَمَاتُ naḡamātu
accusative	نَغَمَاتٍ naḡamātin	النَّغَمَاتِ an-naḡamāti	نَغَمَاتِ naḡamāti
genitive	نَغَمَاتٍ naḡamātin	النَّغَمَاتِ an-naḡamāti	نَغَمَاتِ 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 (naġme)
- > Tajik: нағма (naġma) (inherited)
- → Hindustani:
  Hindi: नग़मा (naġmā), नग़्मा (naġmā), नगमा (nagmā), नग्मा (nagmā) — nuqtaless
  Urdu: نَغمَہ (naġmā)
→ Turkmen: nagma
→ Uyghur: نەغمە (neghme)
→ 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–