Number: 1921
Proto-Semitic: *ʔVm(m)-
Meaning: 'group of relatives; familly; clan; people'
Akkadian: ummānu 'Menschenmenge, Heer, Arbeitstruppe' OB [AHw 1413], ummatu 'Haubtmasse; Stamm-, Heimateinheit; Hauptmacht; Raubtierrudel' O-N Bab [ibid. 1414]
Ugaritic: umt 'familia, clan' [DLU 37]
Hebrew: ʔummā, ʔēm ? 'tribe, small group of people'(non-Israelite, Malamat) [Koehler new 62]
Biblical Aramaic: ʔummā 'nation' [KB 1051]
Judaic Aramaic: ʔīmmā 'distaff' [Ja 50]
Syrian Aramaic: ʔem(m)-, pl. ʔemhāt-, ʔemh- 'origo (origin; kin; patriarch) [Brock 23], ʔūmūn-, ʔūmūt- 'populus, natio' ibid. 24
Arabic: ʔumm-at- 'assemblée, foule, multitude; famille; people, nation' [BK 1 52], ʔmm 'se diriger, tendre vers un lieu; marcher en tête; prescrire, ordonner en sa qualité de chef' [ibid.]
Epigraphic South Arabian: SAB ʔmm 'to obey, be led' [SD 6], ʔm-t 'bondwoman, female vassal' [ibid. 5]
Tigre: ʔammät 'people, tribe' [LH 355] (hardly an arabism because of different vocalism)
Mehri: ʔámma 'many people' [JM 5] (rather <ARB ʕamm- or ʔummat-)
