Number: 2205
Proto-Semitic: *šam(a)n- {} *sam(a)n-
Meaning: fat (also oil)
Akkadian: šamnu (NA also šamanu) 'oil, fat' OB on [CAD š1 321], [AHw 1157]
Ugaritic: šmn 'Ol (ö), Fette' [Aist 309]
Phoenician: šmn 'oil' [T 323]
Hebrew: šämän 'Fett, Oe:l' [KB deutsch 1449].
Cf. šāmān 'fette Gegenden, Fettgebilde' [ibid.])
Aramaic: OFF PLM šmn 'oil' [HJ 1163]
Judaic Aramaic: šǝman (šumnā) 'fat' [Ja 1536, 1597]; šwmn 'fat' [Sok 541]
Syrian Aramaic: šumnā 'pinguedo' [Brock 786]
Modern Aramaic: MAL šomna 'Butter' [Berg 91] MMND šamīna 'fat (a.), stout' [M MND 502, 521]
Mandaic Aramaic: šamina, šumna 'fat' [DM 443, 455]
Arabic: samn- 'graisse' [BK 1 1143].
smn 'être gras et replet' [ibid.]
Jibbali: šɛ̃n 'fat, fatness' [JJ 262] (<*šVmn-)
Notes: Likely <*šam- {} *sam-, with the -Vn suffix, cf. AFRASIAN. In this connection, also note UGR šmt 'Fleishfetzen' [ibid. 311] compared by [Gordon 492]. Unless from *šaman-t-u (>*šamattu, an assimilation -nt- > -tt- being quite common in UGR), it may be from *šam- {} *sam-. The comparison, however, is questionable semantically; the UGR term is better compatible with EGYP (18 DYN) sms 'Fleischstück vom Rind' [EG IV 141] (<*smsm ?).
See -u in part of ARM forms likely to be due to m.
[Fron 42] (*šamn- 'grasso' /ARB,SYR,HBR,UGR,AKK/); [KB deutsch 1449]: HBR, ARM, PHO, UGR, AKK, ARB; [Brock 786]: SYR, ARM, HBR, ARB
