English
Hashemite
Hashemite comes from Arabic هَاشِم ‘Hashim’, and goes back to هَشَمَ ‘to smash, to crush’.
- Arabicc. 500–presentهَشَمَhašama‘to smash, to crush’
- Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentهَاشِمhāšim‘Hashim’
- Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentهَاشِمِيّhāšimiyy
- Englishearliest quotation 1956Hashemite
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Arabicc. 500–presentهَشَمَhašama‘to smash, to crush’
- Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentهَاشِمhāšim‘Hashim’
- Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentهَاشِمِيّhāšimiyy
- Englishearliest quotation 1956Hashemite
Earliest quotation: 1956, R. C. Blaker, The Hedjaz Railway: “In 1924 the Hashemite King Hussein was driven out…”
The story
The name signifies "breaker of bread", from هَشَمَ (hašama, “to destroy, smash”).
Every English word from Arabic هَشَمَ
Today it means
noun One who lays claim to being a direct descendant of Hashim, the great grandfather of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Arabic هَشَمَ / Hashemite