بيرم

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Arabic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Possibly an artificial word from بَرَمَ (barama, to twist, to shape, to contort), unless these verbs are denominal from the instruments, compare بَرَى (barā, to trim, to nib) and بَرَدَ (barada, to file, to pare), though this is also suspect of Middle Iranian borrowing. Arabic tradition usually claims that “مُخْل (muḵl) is Greek and بَيْرَم (bayram) is Persian”, but Vullers in his Persian–Latin dictionary lists the Persian as from Arabic, and indeed Dihḵudā’s quote for the word is from al-Ḵwarizmī’s originally Arabic مفاتيح العلوم (mafātīḥ al-ʕulūm), and surely at least the Classical Syriac ܒܝܪܡܐ only given by Bar Bahlul is from Arabic.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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بَيْرَم (bayramm (plural بَيَارِم (bayārim))

  1. (obsolete, Classical Arabic) gimlet, crank, or a kind of lever

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Persian: بیرم (bayram)
  • Classical Syriac: ܒܝܪܡܐ

See also

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References

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  • byrmˀ”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “بیرم”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press
  • Vullers, Johann August (1855) “بيرم”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum[1] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 297b
  • Wiedemann, Eilhard (1906) Beiträge zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften. VI. Zur Mechanik und Technik bei den Arabern (Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-medizinischen Sozietät; 38)‎[2] (in German), Erlangen: Junge & Sohn, published 1907, page 19

Malay

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Adjective

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بيرم

  1. Jawi spelling of biram

Noun

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بيرم (plural بيرم-بيرم or بيرم۲, informal 1st possessive بيرمکو, 2nd possessive بيرممو, 3rd possessive بيرمڽ)

  1. Jawi spelling of biram