How to say "honor, dignity" in Arabic

Watch the surface trap: כרם is a vineyard, not honor — but the confusion is no accident. Root כ-ר-ם/ك-ر-م is genuinely the same in both languages, and Arabic grew it into a whole family of nobility — كَرَم karam "generosity," كَرِيم karīm "generous, noble," كرامة karāma "dignity." Arabic even keeps a plain "vineyard" sense alive in the near-twin word كَرْم karm. Some trace both meanings to one old idea — a noble's abundance measured out in vines — but in daily use the two have grown into separate lives.