ism

Abbreviation of English Masimasi with m and s interchanged.

ism

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Masimasi.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Masimasi terms

From the suffix -ism (“belief”), particularly (in the 19th century) in the sense of "social movement". Compare phobia, from -phobia, sophy, from -sophy, itis, from -itis, and ana, from -ana.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɪz.əm/

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• Rhymes: -ɪzəm

ism (plural isms)

1. An ideology, system of thought, or practice that can be described by a word ending in -ism.

   Synonym: whateverism

   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, chapter XV, in Past and Present‎^[1], book 2:

     […] his religion, his worship was like his daily bread to him; — which he did not take the trouble to talk much about; which he merely ate at stated intervals, and lived and did his work upon! This is Abbot Samson’s Catholicism of the Twelfth Century; — something like the Ism of all true men in all true centuries, I fancy! Alas, compared with any of the Isms current in these poor days, what a thing!

   • 1887 August, W[illiam] G[raham] Sumner, “State Interference”, in North American Review:

     If it gives way to sentimentalism, or sensibility, or political mysticism, or adopts an affectation of radicalism, or any other ism, or molds its institutions so as to round out to a more complete fulfillment somebody's theory of the universe, it may fall into an era of revolution and political insecurity […]

   • 1965, Bertram David Wolfe, Marxism, One Hundred Years in the Life of a Doctrine, page 357:

     An ism does not have to possess the fearful implements of state power to cut off a deviant or heretical member.

   • 1969, Walter E. Minchinton, Mercantilism; System Or Expediency?, page xi:

     In his exposition, he has failed to achieve the identification of situation, theory, and policy necessary to create an ism.

   • 1986, John Hughes, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, spoken by Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick):

     Isms in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an ism – he should believe in himself.

   • 1994, Kenneth Kaye, Workplace Wars and How to End Them, page 70:

     It is important to distinguish between an ism and a mere generalization about group differences. Generalizations that have statistical validity are not isms. An ism assumes that the generalization applies to an individual.

   • 2000 fall, Donald S. Lopez Jr., “How the Buddha Got Ism-ed”, in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review‎^[2], volume 10, number 1, New York, N.Y.: The Tricycle Foundation, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 July 2016, page 42, column 1:

     Dwight Eisenhower, a president not particularly remembered for his wit, once remarked that "all isms are wasms." He was presumably referring, rather presciently, to the largely forgotten isms that were once perceived as a threat to truth, justice, and the American way: Marxism, socialism, communism.

   1. A form of discrimination, such as racism or sexism.
      • 2020 June 6, Lisa Selin Davis, “Children aren’t born racist. Here’s how parents can stop them from becoming racist.”, in CNN‎^[3], spoken by Sarah Gaither, archived from the original on 19 January 2024:

        Parents and educators play a critical role in helping children of all ages navigate current events and talk openly about the historical roots of the various ‘isms in our country.

• isms and schisms

• ideology
• ist
• philosophy
• wasm

• Raymond Williams (1983), “Isms”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 173

• IMS, IMs, MIS, MIs, MSI, SIM, Sim, mis-, sim

ism

1. root (of a plant)

Inherited from Arabic اِسْم (ism).

ism (plural ismát)

1. name

• Borg, Alexander (2004), A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 141

Probably from Proto-Berber *(a-)iʔsǝm (“name”), from Proto-Afroasiatic *sim- (“name”).

Cognate with Kabyle, Northern Saharan Berber, Tuareg, Ghadames, Central Atlas Tamazight, and Tarifit isem (“name”), Zenaga iʔšəm (“name”), Tetserret ešǝm (“name”), Proto-Semitic *šim- (“name”), and Proto-Chadic *sVm- (“name”), whence Hausa sū́nā́ (“name”).

• IPA^(key): /ism/

ism m (plural ismawn, Tifinagh spelling ⵉⵙⵎ, Arabic spelling ايسم)

1. name

   Synonym: assaɣ

   ما يسم ن تغاوسا اد س تشلحيت؟

   ma ism n tġawsa ad s tšlḥit?

   what's the name of this thing in Tashelhit?

   ماد اك يسم؟ ― mad ak ism ? ― what's your name?

2. (neologism, grammar) noun

   آسمّاود يڭا ييسم ن يميسّ ن وسكّير "مووْد".

   asmmawd iga yism n imiss n uskkir "muwd".

   "asmmawd" is the nomen instrumenti of the verb "muwd"

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 2 f—l (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/2) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1151b
• Marijn van Putten (2011), Nouns of the CVC and CC type in Berber (Thesis), The Netherlands: Leiden University, page 13

Inherited from Chagatai اِسْم (ism, “name”), from Classical Persian اِسْم (ism, “name”), from Arabic اِسْم m (ism, “name”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔɪsm/, [ʔsm]

• Hyphenation: ism

ism (plural ismlar)

1. name
2. (grammar) noun

• ot
• nom