The word, sumr, in the colloquial Levantine Arabic is the plural form of the color term, asmar, which means "brown".[9] An Egyptian Shafii scholar, Al Suyuti, used the word with the meaning of "black", another color term: Nuzhat al-Umr fī al-Tafdīl Bayna al-Bīd wa al-Sumr (1931; "The Recreation of Life on Preferentialism between the White and the Black in Complexion" in English).[10] However, in Egyptian Arabic, sumr (ﺳـُﻤﺮ) is the plural form of masculine asmar and feminine samra, and refers to dark skin and brunette.[11] In this sense, the word refers to personal attributes and appearance.[11][12] In a similar vein, the word is the plural form of masculine asmar and feminine samra in Classical Yemeni Arabic which refers to again personal characteristics, but with a different meaning, "yellowish person".[13] Another Arab scholar Al Dimashqī used the word sumra or dark brown to describe the peoples of Arabia.[14]
Sumr was also employed in Old Norse as an adjective which means "any".[15][16] It is a variant of the Proto-Germanic suma- which is the original form of the current English determiner and adverb some.[17] In the latter function it refers to "to a certain degree or extent" and in the former function "certain unknown or unspecified".[18] This variant, Sumr (سمر in Urdu), is used as a male given name in Urdu.[19][20] In addition, it was a Jewish feminine given name in the Middle Ages with the meaning of dark brown.[21]
In object-oriented analysis and design, SUMR which is pronounced "summer" is the abbreviation of Simple Use case Markup-Restructured.[22] It refers to a simple plain text markup language which produces documents that are easily converted into XML, HTML and other formats.[22] The same abbreviation also stands for Satellite User Mapping Register.[23]
