A-min combines the interrogative hamzah with min: are these traces associated with Umm Awfā? The principal nominal expression is dimnatun, a surviving mark of habitation.
Umm Awfā is a personal designation, while Ḥawmānat al-Darrāj and al-Mutathallam are place names. Joining the person to specific localities anchors the speaker’s memory in a distinctive past, rather than in an anonymous desert setting.