ريم

العربية

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ريم¹

Where it comes from

Akin to Aramaic רָמָא (“high; height, hill”), Hebrew רָם (rām, “high”), רָמָה (rāmā, “high place”), Ugaritic 𐎗𐎎 (rm, “high; high place”). Related to Proto-Semitic *rayam- (“to be high, to be raised”).

noun رَيْم · raym · الرَّيْم · رَيْمٌ

  1. excess, redundancy, augment
  2. height, peak

ريم²

noun رَيْم · raym · الرَّيْم · رَيْمٌ

  1. noun from verb verbal noun of رَامَ (rāma, “to depart from, to separate oneself from”)

ريم³

verb رَيَّمَ · rayyama · يُرَيِّمُ · تَرْيِيم · مُرَيِّم

  1. to stay, to bide, to remain
  2. to overflow, to spout forth

ريم⁴

Where it comes from

From the root ر ي م (r y m) or ر و م (r w m), originally with the sense of climbing up higher, hence also away from others, to depart from, to separate oneself from, to avoid capture, to be wild or free. Related to Proto-Semitic *rayam- (“to be high, to be raised”); cognates with Biblical Hebrew רְאֵם (rəʾem, “oryx, wild cows”), Ugaritic 𐎗𐎜𐎎 (rủm, “auroch, wild buffalo”), Akkadian 𒄞𒄠 (rīmum, “wild bull, wild ass”).

noun رِيم · rīm · أَرْيَام · الرِّيم

  1. wild member of the Bovidae
  2. gazelle, antelope, oryx (sand gazelle Gazella leptoceros and goitered gazelle Gazella subgutturosa subsp. marica formerly Gazella marica)

ريم⁵

  • /riːm/

proper noun رِيم · rīm

  1. a female given name, Reem

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {ريم},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%85},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

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