ملغم

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma, “emollient; malleable material”), related to μαλάσσω (malássō, “to soften”) and μαλακός (malakós, “soft”).

Noun

مَلْغَم • (malḡam) m (plural مَلَاغِم (malāḡim))

1. softening ointment, emollient poultice
2. amalgam

Declension

Declension of noun مَلْغَم (malḡam)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَلْغَم malḡam	الْمَلْغَم al-malḡam	مَلْغَم malḡam
Nominative	مَلْغَمٌ malḡamun	الْمَلْغَمُ al-malḡamu	مَلْغَمُ malḡamu
Accusative	مَلْغَمًا malḡaman	الْمَلْغَمَ al-malḡama	مَلْغَمَ malḡama
Genitive	مَلْغَمٍ malḡamin	الْمَلْغَمِ al-malḡami	مَلْغَمِ malḡami
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَلْغَمَيْن malḡamayn	الْمَلْغَمَيْن al-malḡamayn	مَلْغَمَيْ malḡamay
Nominative	مَلْغَمَانِ malḡamāni	الْمَلْغَمَانِ al-malḡamāni	مَلْغَمَا malḡamā
Accusative	مَلْغَمَيْنِ malḡamayni	الْمَلْغَمَيْنِ al-malḡamayni	مَلْغَمَيْ malḡamay
Genitive	مَلْغَمَيْنِ malḡamayni	الْمَلْغَمَيْنِ al-malḡamayni	مَلْغَمَيْ malḡamay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَلَاغِم malāḡim	الْمَلَاغِم al-malāḡim	مَلَاغِم malāḡim
Nominative	مَلَاغِمُ malāḡimu	الْمَلَاغِمُ al-malāḡimu	مَلَاغِمُ malāḡimu
Accusative	مَلَاغِمَ malāḡima	الْمَلَاغِمَ al-malāḡima	مَلَاغِمَ malāḡima
Genitive	مَلَاغِمَ malāḡima	الْمَلَاغِمِ al-malāḡimi	مَلَاغِمِ malāḡimi

Derived terms

• تَلَغَّمَ (talaḡḡama, “to put ointment on”)
• أَلْغَمَ (ʔalḡama, “to amalgamate”)
• تَمَلْغَمَ (tamalḡama, “to form an amalgam”)
• لَغْمَطَ (laḡmaṭa, “to besmear”)

Descendants

• → Medieval Latin: amalgama
  • → Belarusian: амальга́ма (amalʹháma)
  • → Bulgarian: амалга́ма (amalgáma)
  • → Catalan: amalgama
  • → Czech: amalgám
  • → Danish: amalgam
  • → Dutch: amalgaam
    • Afrikaans: amalgaam
  • → English: amalgam
  • → Finnish: amalgaami
  • → French: amalgame
    • → Greek: αμάλγαμα (amálgama)
    • → Latvian: amalgama
    • → Lithuanian: amalgamà
    • → Romanian: amalgam
    • → Russian: амальгама (amalʹgama)
      • → Georgian: ამალგამა (amalgama)
    • → Turkish: amalgam
  • → Galician: amálgama
  • → German: Amalgam
  • → Icelandic: amalgam
  • → Italian: amalgama
  • → Macedonian: амалгам (amalgam)
  • → Malay: amalgam
  • → Norwegian: amalgam
  • → Occitan: amalgama
  • → Polish: amalgamat
  • → Portuguese: amálgama
  • → Russian: амальга́ма (amalʹgáma)
    • → Kazakh: амальгама (amalgama)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: ама̀лга̄м
    • Latin script: amàlgām
  • → Slovak: amalgám
  • → Slovene: amalgám
  • → Spanish: amalgama
  • → Swedish: amalgam
  • → Turkish: malgama
  • → Ukrainian: амальга́ма (amalʹháma)
• → Persian: ملغمه (malğame)
  • → Turkish: malgama / ملغمه

References

• “ملغم” in Almaany
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ملغم”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 113
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ملغم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen, page 1056
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ملغم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1158
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ملغم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1221