# حام
## Arabic
### Etymology 1

* Root
* ح م م (ḥ m m)
* 10 terms
* Root
* ح م ي (ḥ m y)
* 6 terms
Compare حَمِيم (ḥamīm).

#### Adjective

حَامٍ • (ḥāmin) (construct state حَامِي (ḥāmī), informal حَامِي (ḥāmī), feminine حَامِيَة (ḥāmiya), elative أَحْمَى (ʔaḥmā))
* extremely hot
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 88:2-7:وُجُوهٌ يَوْمَئِذٍ خَاشِعَةٌ عَامِلَةٌ نَاصِبَةٌ تَصْلَى نَارًا حَامِيَةً تُسْقَى مِنْ عَيْنٍ آنِيَةٍ لَيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِنْ ضَرِيعٍ لَا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِي مِنْ جُوعٍwujūhun yawmaʔiḏin ḵāšiʕatun ʕāmilatun nāṣibatun taṣlā nāran ḥāmiyatan tusqā min ʕaynin ʔāniyatin laysa lahum ṭaʕāmun ʔillā min ḍarīʕin lā yusminu wa-lā yuḡnī min jūʕin[Some] faces, that Day, will be humbled, Working [hard] and exhausted. They will [enter to] burn in an intensely hot Fire. They will be given drink from a boiling spring. For them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.
* vehement, ardent, fiery, heated, violent, forceful (of an emotion such as anger)
* steamy (erotic)

##### Declension
#### Further reading

* Wehr, Hans (1979) “حام”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

### Etymology 2

* Root
* ح م ي (ḥ m y)
* 6 terms
From the active participle of حَمَى (ḥamā, “to protect”).
The sense ‘stallion-camel freed from work’ has been explained as coming from the image of a stallion-camel protecting its back: "a stallion-camel that has prohibited, or interdicted, his back [to be used for bearing a rider or any burden]".

#### Adjective

حَامٍ • (ḥāmin) (construct state حَامِي (ḥāmī), feminine حَامِيَة (ḥāmiya), masculine plural حَامُون (ḥāmūn) or حُمَاة (ḥumāh), feminine plural حَامِيَات (ḥāmiyāt), elative أَحْمَى (ʔaḥmā))
* active participle of حَمَى (ḥamā, “to protect”)

##### Declension
#### Noun

حَامٍ • (ḥāmin) m (construct state حَامِي (ḥāmī), informal حَامِي (ḥāmī), plural حَامُون (ḥāmūn) or حُمَاة (ḥumāh), feminine حَامِيَة (ḥāmiya))
* a protector
** 1930s, “حُمَاةَ ٱلْحِمَى (Humat Al-Hima)”, أَبُو ٱلْقَاسِمِ ٱلشَّابِيّ, مُصْطَفَى صَادِق الرَّافِعِي [Aboul-Qacem Echebbi] (lyrics), مُحَمَّد عَبْد ٱلْوَهَّاب (music):حُمَاةَ الْحِمَى يَا حُمَاةَ الْحِمَى هَلُمُّوا هَلُمُّوا لِمَجْدِ الزَّمَنْḥumāta al-ḥimā yā ḥumāta al-ḥimā halummū halummū limajdi z-zamanO defenders of the Homeland rally around to the glory of our time!
* a stallion-camel freed from work
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 5:103:مَا جَعَلَ اللّٰهُ مِن بَحِيرَةٍ وَلَا سَائِبَةٍ وَلَا وَصِيلَةٍ وَلَا حَامٍmā jaʕala llāhu min baḥīratin wa-lā sāʔibatin wa-lā waṣīlatin wa-lā ḥāmin(please add an English translation of this quotation)

##### Declension
#### Descendants

* → Classical Persian: حَامِی (hāmī)
** Dari: حَامِی (hāmī)
** Iranian Persian: حامی (hâmi)
** Tajik: ҳомӣ (homi)
* → Ottoman Turkish: حامی (hami)
** Turkish: hami

#### References

* ↑ Lane, Edward William (1863) “حام”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

حَامَ • (ḥāma) I (non-past يَحُومُ (yaḥūmu), verbal noun حَوْم (ḥawm))
* to hover, to revolve around

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 4

From Biblical Hebrew חָם (ḥām).

#### Proper noun

حَام • (ḥām) m
* Ḥām, the son of Nūḥ and the brother of Yāfiṯ and Sām.

##### Descendants

* → Classical Persian: حَام (hām)
** Dari: حَام (hām)
** Iranian Persian: حام (hâm)
** Tajik: Ҳом (Hom)
* → Ottoman Turkish: حام (Ham)
** Turkish: Ham

### Etymology 5
#### Verb

حَامِ • (ḥāmi) (form III) /ħaː.mi/
* second-person masculine singular imperative of حَامَى (ḥāmā)