Where does “সামী” come from?

সামী (Bengali) comes from Arabic سَامِيّ — exalted.

সামী (Bengali): Of or pertaining to a subdivision of Afroasiatic Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, Hebrew, Maltese, Tigrigna, Phoenician etc

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to a subdivision of Afroasiatic Semitic languages: Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Syriac, Akkadian, Hebrew, Maltese, Tigrigna, Phoenician etc

Ancestry of “সামী”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicسَامِيّexalted
Every word from Arabic سَامِيّ →