قمح

Concepts

wheat

Triticum

corn

🌽

pay in installments

ripen

grain

apportion

Synonyms

حنطة

Translations

Weizen

blé

blat

buğday

σιτάρι

frumento

froment

trigo

triticum

trigo

tarwe

grano

genim

blat

Pronounced as (IPA)

/qamħ/

Etymology

From the root ق م ح (q m ḥ). Cognate with Aramaic קַמְחָא (qamḥā, “flour”), Hebrew קֶמַח (qémaḥ, “flour”), Ge'ez ቀምሕ (ḳämḥ, “vegetables; leguminous plant”), ቀምሐ (ḳämḥä, “to eat upon, to graze”), Ugaritic 𐎖𐎎𐎈 (qmḥ, “flour”).