Where does “سماء” come from?

سماء (Arabic) comes from Proto-Semitic šamāy- — sky, heaven.

سماء (Arabic): the sky/skies; the heaven(s), space, the sphere(s), the cosmos(es), the lift(s)

Definitions

  1. the sky/skies; the heaven(s), space, the sphere(s), the cosmos(es), the lift(s)

Ancestry of “سماء”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Semiticšamāy-sky, heaven
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