Ḥ-M-D
Triconsonantal Semitic root of Arabic and Hebrew words / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see HMD (disambiguation).
Ḥ-M-D (Arabic: ح-م-د, Hebrew: ח-מ-ד) is the triconsonantal Semitic root of many Arabic and some Hebrew words. Many of those words are used as names. The basic meaning expressed by the root is "to praise" in Arabic and "to desire" in Hebrew.[1][2]