قرمش
Hijazi Arabic
| Root |
|---|
| ق ر م ش |
| 1 term |
Etymology
From Arabic قَرْمَشَ (qarmaša).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡar.maʃ/
Verb
قَرْمَش • (garmaš) Iq (non-past يِقَرْمِش (yigarmiš))
- to crunch
Conjugation
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
| past | m | قرمشت (garmašt) | قرمشت (garmašt) | قرمش (garmaš) | قرمشنا (garmašna) | قرمشتوا (garmaštu) | قرمشوا (garmašu) | |
| f | قرمشتي (garmašti) | قرمشت (garmašat) | ||||||
| non-past | m | أقرمش (agarmiš) | تقرمش (tigarmiš) | يقرمش (yigarmiš) | نقرمش (nigarmiš) | تقرمشوا (tigarmišu) | يقرمشوا (yigarmišu) | |
| f | تقرمشي (tigarmiši) | تقرمش (tigarmiš) | ||||||
| imperative | m | قرمش (garmiš) | قرمشوا (garmišu) | |||||
| f | قرمشي (garmiši) | |||||||
North Levantine Arabic
Etymology 1
Extension of قَرَش (ʔaraš, “to crunch”) with a root infix ـمـ (-m-). Perhaps also somehow descended from Arabic قَرْمَشَ (qarmaša, “to spoil, ruin”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʔar.maʃ/
- (Druze, coastal Syria) IPA(key): /ˈqar.maʃ/
Verb
قرمش • (ʔarmaš) (non-past يقرمش (yʔarmiš), verbal noun قرمشة (ʔarmaše))
- to crunch something while eating it [with عَلَى (ʕala) or عَ (ʕa) ‘on (something being eaten)’]
- Synonym: قرقش (ʔarʔaš)
- to snack [with عَلَى (ʕala) or عَ (ʕa) ‘on (something)’]
- Synonyms: لقمش (laʔmaš), نقرش (naʔraš)
Etymology 2
Seemingly a derivative of the above verb قرمش (ʔarmaš, “to crunch”), as it is present in nearly all Arabic dialects whereas قُرمُش (ʔurmuš) is only found in South Lebanon. Perhaps created by copying the vowels of the original term جُنْدُب (jundub, “grasshopper”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʔur.muʃ/ [ˈʔormoʃ, -muʃ]
Noun
قرمش • (ʔurmuš) m (plural قرامش (ʔarāmiš))
- (South Lebanon) grasshopper
- Synonym: (elsewhere) جندب (jundub, jindub)