أعجم

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Arabic[edit]

Root
ع ج م (ʕ-j-m)

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Verb[edit]

أَعْجَمَ (ʔaʕjama) IV, non-past يُعْجِمُ‎ (yuʕjimu)

  1. to speak or write unclearly or unintelligibly, to mumble, to lisp (sense 2)
  2. to cause to be incorrect, unclear or barbarous
  3. to point letters or a text
  4. to shut or lock (the door)
  5. to boil strongly

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Adjective[edit]

أَعْجَم (ʔaʕjam) (feminine عَجْمَاء (ʕajmāʔ), common plural عُجْم (ʕujm), masculine plural أعْجَمُونَ, feminine plural عَجْمَاوَات (ʕajmāwāt))

  1. having an impotence in speech
  2. non-Arabic
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 26:198-199:
      وَلَوْ نَزَّلْنَاهُ عَلَى بَعْضِ ٱلْأَعْجَمِينَ / فَقَرَأَهُ عَلَيْهِم مَا كَانُوا بِهِ مُؤْمِنِينَ
      walaw nazzalnāhu ʕalā baʕḍi l-ʔaʕjamīna / faqaraʔahu ʕalayhim mā kānū bihi muʔminīna
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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