لم
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Particle
[edit]لَمْ • (lam)
- not (negating past tense) [with jussive]
- لَمْ يَكْتُبْ ― lam yaktub ― He 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.
See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]لِمَ • (lima)
- 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.
- yā ʔayyuhā llaḏīna ʔāmanū lima taqūlūna mā lā tafʕalūna
Etymology 3
[edit]Verb
[edit]- second-person masculine singular imperative of لَامَ (lāma)
Egyptian Arabic
[edit]Verb
[edit]لم • (lamm) I (non-past يلم (yilimm))
Conjugation
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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) |
Mazanderani
[edit]Noun
[edit]لم (lam)
Noun
[edit]لم (lem)
Pashto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Akin to Persian دنب (donb, “tail”); see it for more.
Noun
[edit]لم • (lëm) m
Persian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [lem(ː)]
Readings | |
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Iranian reading? | lemm |
Noun
[edit]لم • (lem)
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [lem]
Readings | |
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Iranian reading? | lem |
Noun
[edit]لم • (lem)
Further reading
[edit]- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “لم”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
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