Etimoloji
Cognate with Aramaic חִימְצָא (ḥimməṣā), whence Arabic حِمَّص (ḥimmaṣ) ~ حِمِّص (ḥimmiṣ, “chickpea”) and حُمُّص (ḥummuṣ, “hummus”). Compare also Akkadian 𒈝𒈬𒌅 (ḫummuṭu, “to apply heat, to burn, to scorch, to parch, to roast”). Likely unrelated to Hebrew חָמֵץ (ḥameṣ, “to leaven, to ferment (of dough); chametz”) and חֹמֶץ ~ חומץ (ḥōmeṣ, “vinegar”) (as claimed by, for instance, Shalev, 2001), which…