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Calque of Arabic جَمْع سَالِم (jamʕ sālim).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: In Semitic and other Afro-Asiatic languages, a regular plural formed by adding a suffix, without changes to the stem. An example in Arabic is مُسْلِمُونَ (muslimūna, “Muslims”), the plural form of مُسْلِم (muslim, “Muslim”), formed by adding the suffix ـُونَ (-ūna), and مُسْلِمَات (muslimāt, “Muslim women”), formed by adding the suffix ـَاتٌ (-ātun). Full definition →
Calque of Arabic جَمْع سَالِم (jamʕ sālim).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.