I ) Classical Arabic: ghml, ghmyl غمل ,غميل
----> heap, accumulate, ex. plants
or herbage became accumulated. One part overlaying another.
ghmyl: acumulated, one part above
another.
(gh =
letter ghayn
غ voiced velar fricative)
Compare with Latin
cumul/us
cumil- : heaped measure, to stack hay
etc.
1650s, "a heap," from L. cumulus "a heap, pile, mass, surplus," from
PIE *ku-m-olo
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II ) Classical Arabic `abba' / 3abba' عبأ : to heap, pile, amass, to pack up goods, put them one upon
another, ta-3biy'-ah: drawing off a group of people
for special duty like army draft, or call to arms during war
or conflict.
(` = 3 letter `ayn ع voiced pharyngeal
fricative)
Compare with:
heáp, es; m. [generally, but ðeós earme
heáp occurs, Cd. 215; Th. 270, 9; Sat. 87.] A HEAP,
pile, great number, host, multitude, crowd, band,troop, body of people,
assembly, company :-- Galað ðæt is gewitnesse heáp
Golaad acervus testimonii interpretatur, Past. 48, 2; Swt. 367, 5. Sehálga heáp héhfædera and wítgena the holy host of patriarchs and
prophets, Blickl. Homl. 81, 9. Fyrenfulra þreát heáp synnigra peccatores, Ps.
Th.91, 6. Þegna heáp a troop of thanes, Beo. Th. 805;
B. 400. Be ðam gesligan heápe ðe mid ðam Hlende on
ðisum lífe drohtnode of the blessedcompany that lived with the Saviour in this
life, Homl. Th. ii. 520, 22. Of ðam yfelan heápe
gehádodra manna be ðám ðe úre Drihten cwæþ 'multidicunt mihi, etc.' of that evil
band of men in orders about whom our Lord said, 'many will say to me, etc.' L.
Ælfc. P. 40; Th. ii. 380, 36: Apstls.Kmbl. 17; Ap. 9. Sum sceal on heápe hæleþum cwéman one shall in company give pleasure to
men, Exon. 88 a; Th. 331, 32; Vy. 77. Gewíteþ midðý wuldre mre tungol faran on
heápe the great star departs accompanied with that glory, 93 b; Th. 350, 26;
Sch. 69. Hwanon ferigeaþ géheresceafta heáp whence
bear ye a heap of war shafts, Beo. Th. 675; B. 335. Hengestes heáp Hengest's band, 2186; B. 1091. His ðone gecorenanheáp
electos suos, Ps. Th. 104, 38: L. Ælfc. P. 21; Th. ii. 372, 3. Getalu vel heápas vel hundredu centurias, Ælfc. Gl. 96; Som. 76, 25;
Wrt. Voc. 53,34. Hine ðá ða heápas frugnon hwæt hie wyrcean mihton ðæt hie Godes
erre beflugon when the multitudes asked him [John] what they could do toescape
God's wrath, Blickl. Homl. 169, 10: Cd. 161; Th. 202, 2; Exod. 382. Biscopan and
gehálgodan heápan for
bishops and consecrated bodies,L. Eth. Vii. 24; Th. i. 334, 23. Heápum in troops, Cd. 81; Th. 101, 36; Gen. 1693: 189; Th.
235, 6; Dan. 302: Exon. 15 b; Th. 34, 29; Cri. 549:Judth. 11; Thw. 23, 39; Jud.
163. [O. Sax. hóp: O. Frs. háp: cf. Icel. hópr a troop,
flock: O. H. Ger. houf strues, acervus: Ger. haufe.] DER. gár-,wíg-heáp.
heap (n.)
O.E. heap "pile, great
number, multitude" (of things or persons), from W.Gmc. *haupaz (cf. O.S. hop, O.Fris.
hap, M.L.G. hupe, Du.
hoop, Ger. Haufe
"heap".
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III ) Classical Arabic kwm كوم :
a heap , a mass, and/or a pile
Türkish küme; stack; clump is a loan word from
Arabic.
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