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لم

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Arabic

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Particle

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لَمْ (lam)

  1. not (negating past tense) [with jussive]
    لَمْ يَكْتُبْlam yaktubHe has not written.
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 98:1:
      لَمْ يَكُنِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْ أَهْلِ ٱلْكِتَابِ وَٱلْمُشْرِكِينَ مُنْفَكِّينَ حَتَّى تَأْتِيَهُمُ ٱلْبَيِّنَةُ.
      lam yakuni llaḏīna kafarū min ʔahli l-kitābi wa-l-mušrikīna munfakkīna ḥattā taʔtiyahumu l-bayyinatu.
      Those who disbelieved among the People of the Scripture and the polytheists were not to be parted [from misbelief] until there came to them clear evidence.
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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Adverb

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لِمَ (lima)

  1. for what, why
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 61:2-3:
      يَا أَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لِمَ تَقُولُونَ مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ
      كَبُرَ مَقْتًا عِنْدَ ٱللّٰهِ أَن تَقُولُوا مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ
      yā ʔayyuhā llaḏīna ʔāmanū lima taqūlūna mā lā tafʕalūna
      kabura maqtan ʕinda llāhi ʔan taqūlū mā lā tafʕalūna
      O you who have believed! Why do you say what you do not do? Great is hatred in the sight of Allah that you say what you do not do.

Etymology 3

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Verb

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لُمْ (lum) (form I) /lum/

  1. second-person masculine singular imperative of لَامَ (lāma)

Egyptian Arabic

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Root
ل م م
1 term

Verb

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لم (lamm) I (non-past يلم (yilimm))

  1. to collect, to gather

Conjugation

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Conjugation of لم
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m لميت (lammēt) لميت (lammēt) لم (lamm) لمينا (lammēna) لميتوا (lammētu) لموا (lammu)
f لميتي (lammēti) لمت (lammit)
present subjunctive m الم (alimm) تلم (tilimm) يلم (yilimm) نلم (nilimm) تلموا (tilimmu) يلموا (yilimmu)
f تلمي (tilimmi) تلم (tílimm)
present indicative m بلم (balimm) بتلم (bitlimm) بيلم (biylimm) بنلم (binlimm) بتلموا (bitlimmu) بيلموا (biylimmu)
f بتلمي (bitlimmi) بتلم (bitlimm)
future1 m هلم (halimm) هتلم (hatlimm) هيلم (haylimm) هنلم (hanlimm) هتلموا (hatlimmu) هيلموا (haylimmu)
f هتلمي (hatlimmi) هتلم (hatlimm)
imperative m لم (limm) لموا (limmu)
f لمي (limmi)

1 The future tense can be prefixed with either هـ (ha-) or حـ (ḥa-) depending on the speaker.

Mazanderani

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Noun

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لم (lam)

  1. bramble

Noun

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لم (lem)

  1. filth

Pashto

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Etymology

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Akin to Persian دنب (donb, tail); see it for more.

Noun

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لم (lëmm

  1. tail

Persian

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Readings
Iranian reading? lemm

Noun

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لم (lem)

  1. trick, trickery

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from French lemme.

Pronunciation

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Readings
Iranian reading? lem

Noun

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لم (lem)

  1. (mathematics) lemma

Further reading

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  • Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “لم”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim