ناموس
Arabic
noun
Definitions
- mos (mos) sive (sive) fas (fas) – one of the notoriously hard to define terms like moral (moral)s or conscience (conscience)
- confidant, who is trusted in keeping a thing
- latibulum, where a hunter or hunting animal retreats to prey later
- cromlech, a stone circle, a lithic burial structure in the Sinai connected to various superstitions (also known as namus (namus) in English archaeological writing)
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܢܳܡܘܿܣܳܐ derived from Ancient Greek νόμος (law, custom, ordinance, melody).
Origin
Ancient Greek
νόμος
Gloss
law, custom, ordinance, melody
Concept
Semantic Field
Law
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -nomics English
- -nomy English
- nomism English
- nomo- English
- -nomi Finnish
- nomismi Finnish
- αὐτόνομος Ancient Greek
- γυναικονόμος Ancient Greek
- εὐνομέομαι Ancient Greek
- νομίζω Ancient Greek
- νομικός Ancient Greek
- νομοθέτης Ancient Greek
- νομοφύλαξ Ancient Greek
- νόμος Ancient Greek
- παιδονόμος Ancient Greek
- χειρονόμος Ancient Greek
- ἀστρονομία Ancient Greek
- ἄνομος Ancient Greek
- ἰσονομία Ancient Greek
- *nem- Proto-Indo-European
- iseanóimeacht Irish
- نَامُوس Arabic
- Δευτερονόμιο Greek (modern)
- νόμος Greek (modern)
- ⲛⲟⲙⲟⲥ Coptic
- נמוסא Aramaic
- ܢܳܡܘܿܣܳܐ Classical Syriac
- 𐫗𐫇𐫖 Sogdian
- ᠨᠤᠮ Old Uyghur