زكام

Arabic

Root
ز ك م (z-k-m)

Etymology

فُعَال (fuʕāl)-type verbal-noun from the verb زَكَمَ (zakama, “to get a cold”), from the root ز ك م (z-k-m).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /zu.kaːm/

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Noun

زُكَام • (zukām) m (uncountable)

1. common cold, cold

Declension

Declension of noun زُكَام (zukām)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	زُكَام zukām	الزُّكَام az-zukām	زُكَام zukām
Nominative	زُكَامٌ zukāmun	الزُّكَامُ az-zukāmu	زُكَامُ zukāmu
Accusative	زُكَامًا zukāman	الزُّكَامَ az-zukāma	زُكَامَ zukāma
Genitive	زُكَامٍ zukāmin	الزُّكَامِ az-zukāmi	زُكَامِ zukāmi

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: زكام
  • Turkish: zükâm
  • → Albanian: zyqam
• → Persian: زكام

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic زُكَام (zukām, “cold, catarrh”).

Noun

زكام • (zükâm)

1. cold, a common viral illness, usually with congestion of the nasal passages and sometimes fever

   Synonyms: صوغوق (soğuk), طوماغی (tumağı), نزله (nezle)

Derived terms

• زكاملو (zükâmlı, “suffering from a cold”)

Descendants

• Turkish: zükâm
• → Albanian: zyqam

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zükâm”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5506
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “zükâm”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1436
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زكام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 647
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rheuma”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1484
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زكام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2455
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زكام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1011