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جمع

Pronunciation: /d͡ʒa.ma.ʕa/

“جمع” is an Arabic word. Its 19 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to gather, to assemble, to keep together, to collect
  2. to unite, to reconcile
  3. to collect oneself, to recollect
  4. to lie with
  5. to add
  6. to pluralizeو to form the plural
  7. to contain
  8. to be full-grown
  9. to combine, to bring together
  10. to have two or more negative attributes at the same time; to have a negative attribute on top of another negative attribute
  11. to assemble

noun

  1. gathering, collecting
  2. crowd, throng, mass, legion
  3. a military force
  4. plural, a form of a noun denoting multiples by its sense
  5. addition
  6. lumping together, putting subjects in the same category
  7. a proposition in which a general and a particular subject are included in one category or judgement through a common attribute
  8. distribution of a term

Etymology

Compare Harsusi [script needed] (egtōma), Mehri عَتمَأ (gatmaʾ).

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