صمغ

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Arabic[edit]

صَمْغ

Etymology[edit]

Root
ص م غ (ṣ-m-ḡ)

Uncertain. Maybe a variant of سَمْع (samʕ, ear), compare شَمْع (šamʕ, wax), otherwise سَمُر (samur, acacia). A chain of comparisons also allows to assume Iranian borrowing: سَمْعَج (samʕaj, thick sweet milk), زَمَج (zamaj, gum arabic; raisins), زَاج (zāj, vitriol), Classical Persian زمه (zama, vitriol, alum), زنج (zunj, zanj, zinj, resin; chin), زنخ (zanax, chin), زاگ (zāg, vitriol, alum).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

صَمْغ (ṣamḡm (plural صُمُوغ (ṣumūḡ) or أَصْمَاغ (ʔaṣmāḡ))

  1. resin
    • 1025, ابن سينا (Avicenna), القانون في الطب‎, Rome: Stamperia Orientale Medicea, published 1593, Liber 2, page 174:
      قال ديسقوريدوس في كتابه ان الحلتيث صمغ الانجدان و ذكر بان يشرط اصله وساقه ثم بعد الشرط يسيل منه الحلتيث […]
      Dioscurides said in his book that hing is the resin of the Ferula assa-foetida and he notified that its stem and its foot is slit and then, after the slitting, the hing flows from it. […]
  2. glue

Declension[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Persian: صمغ (samğ)
  • Ottoman Turkish: صمغ (samğ, zamk)

Hijazi Arabic[edit]

Root
ص م غ
1 term
صَمْغ

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic صَمْغ (ṣamḡ).

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

صَمْغ (ṣamḡm (plural صُمُوغ (ṣumūḡ))

  1. glue