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Ar. ḥam-, ḥamāt- tend to be restricted to the parents of the husband

Another meaning, ‘ardeur’, may go back to ḥmy ‘bruler’ [BK 1 497].

yawmun muḥtamidun = šadīdu l-ḥarri (‘muḥtamid’, said of day – very hot)

There are two other anatomical terms which are, however, difficult to compare for semantic reasons: ḥammāˀ- ‘fesses’ [ibid. 486] and ḥamm­-, ḥammat-­ ‘fat tail of melted sheep’ [ibid.] (an original meaning likely to be ‘fat tail of a sheep’, the meaning ‘melted’ acquired through contamination with the homonymous verb ḥmm ‘chauffer’ [ibid. 485]