Etymograph

English

maqam

Maqam comes from Arabic مَقَام ‘verbal noun of قَامَ (qāma) (form I)’, and goes back to قَامَ ‘to get up’.

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentقَامَqāma‘to get up’
  2. Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentمَقَامmaqām‘verbal noun of قَامَ (qāma) (form I)’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2008maqam

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Arabicc. 500–presentقَامَqāma‘to get up’
  2. Arabic, derivedc. 500–presentمَقَامmaqām‘verbal noun of قَامَ (qāma) (form I)’
  3. Englishearliest quotation 2008maqam

Earliest quotation: 2008, Ben Ratliff, Jazz Showcase Fever Propels a Mini Marathon: “Elsewhere in the evening the young Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir…”

Every English word from Arabic قَامَ

Today it means

noun A modal structure characterizing the art of music of countries in North Africa, West Asia and Central Asia.

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Etymograph / Arabic قَامَ / maqam

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