Etymograph

English

Hashimi

Hashimi comes from Arabic هَاشِمِيّ ‘Hashemite, relating to the house of Hashim’, and goes back to هَشَمَ ‘to smash, to crush’.

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentهَشَمَhašama‘to smash, to crush’
  2. Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentهَاشِمhāšim‘Hashem’
  3. Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentهَاشِمِيّ‘Hashemite, relating to the house of Hashim’literally ‘Hashemite’
  4. EnglishtodayHashimi

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentهَشَمَhašama‘to smash, to crush’
  2. Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentهَاشِمhāšim‘Hashem’
  3. Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentهَاشِمِيّ‘Hashemite, relating to the house of Hashim’literally ‘Hashemite’
  4. EnglishtodayHashimi

The story

Borrowed from Arabic هَاشِمِيّ (hāšimiyy, literally “Hashemite”). This surname is mostly found in Saudi Arabia.

Today it means

name A surname from Arabic.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Arabic هَشَمَ / Hashimi