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S̲h̲ams
(4,027 words)
(a.), the sun (f). 1. In Pre-Islamic Arab lore. This was a divinity worshipped in the Semitic world, especially in Assyria-Babylonia (cf. its attributes in K. Tallqvist,
Akkadische Götterepitheta , Helsinki 1938, 453 ff.) and in South Arabia, where the plurals
s̲h̲ums (for
s̲h̲umūs ) given by Yāḳūt (ed. Beirut, iii, 362) for this
ṣanam or idol,
ʾs̲h̲ms and the dual
s̲h̲msy (G. Ryckmans,
Les noms propres sudsémitiques , Louvain 1934-5, i, 33; A. Jamme,
Le panthéon sud-arabe préislamique d’après les sources épigraphiques , in
Muséon , lx [1947], 101 ff.) ¶ denote the titulary divinities…
