שם

From Proto-Semitic *šim-, from Proto-Afro-Asiatic *(ʔi-)sim- (“name”). Cognate with Arabic اسم‎ (ism, “name”).

שֵׁם • (shém) m (plural indefinite שֵׁמוֹת‎, singular construct שֵׁם־, plural construct שְׁמוֹת־‎)

1. a name
   • 1974, Zelda, Every Person Has a Name

     ‏לְכָל אִישׁ יֵשׁ שֵׁם שֶׁנָּתַן לוֹ אֱלֹהִים וְנָתְנוּ לוֹ אָבִיו וְאִמּוֹ, / לְכָל אִישׁ יֵשׁ שֵׁם שֶׁנָּתְנוּ לוֹ קוֹמָתוֹ וְאֹפֶן חִיּוּכוֹ וְנָתַן לוֹ הָאָרִיג, […] ‎

     Every person has a name that God gave him and that his father and mother gave him / Every person has a name that his stature and his way of smiling gave him and that the fabric gave him […]

2. a first name

Compare Arabic ثَمَّ‎ (ṯamma). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

שָׁם • (shám)

1. there (somewhere at some distance from the speaker)

• שָׁמָּה‎

• כאן‎

This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

שֵׁם • (shém) m

1. Shem.

• אַנְטִישֵׁמִי‎ (antishémi)
• אַנְטִישֵׁמִיּוּת‎ (antishémiut)
• שֵׁמִי‎ (shémi)

Compare Ge'ez ሤመ (śemä, “to appoint, to put”).

שָׂם • (sám) (pa'al construction, future יָשִׂים‎)

1. to put, place
2. to turn on, as music, television, radio, etc.
3. to put on, don, as clothing, shoes, etc.

• (to turn on): הִדְלִיק‎ (hidlík), הִפְעִיל‎ (hif'íl)
• (to put on): (clothing) לָבַשׁ‎ (lavásh), (shoes) נָעַל‎ (na'ál), (hat) חָבַשׁ‎ (khavásh), (eyeglasses) הִרְכִּיב‎ (hirkív)

• שָׂם לֵב‎ (sám lév)

שָׁם • (sham) (pa'al construction)

1. to assess, appraise: (determined value).

• Redslob, Gustav Moritz (1872), “Zur hebräischen Wortforschung. שֵׁם”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, volume 26, pages 751–756