ملغم
Arabic
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma, “emollient; malleable material”), related to μαλάσσω (malássō, “to soften”) and μαλακός (malakós, “soft”).
Noun
مَلْغَم • (malḡam) m (plural مَلَاغِم (malāḡim))
Declension
Declension of noun مَلْغَم (malḡam)
Singular | basic singular triptote | ||
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Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | مَلْغَم malḡam |
الْمَلْغَم al-malḡam |
مَلْغَم malḡam |
Nominative | مَلْغَمٌ malḡamun |
الْمَلْغَمُ al-malḡamu |
مَلْغَمُ malḡamu |
Accusative | مَلْغَمًا malḡaman |
الْمَلْغَمَ al-malḡama |
مَلْغَمَ malḡama |
Genitive | مَلْغَمٍ malḡamin |
الْمَلْغَمِ al-malḡami |
مَلْغَمِ malḡami |
Dual | Indefinite | Definite | Construct |
Informal | مَلْغَمَيْن malḡamayn |
الْمَلْغَمَيْن al-malḡamayn |
مَلْغَمَيْ malḡamay |
Nominative | مَلْغَمَانِ malḡamāni |
الْمَلْغَمَانِ al-malḡamāni |
مَلْغَمَا malḡamā |
Accusative | مَلْغَمَيْنِ malḡamayni |
الْمَلْغَمَيْنِ al-malḡamayni |
مَلْغَمَيْ malḡamay |
Genitive | مَلْغَمَيْنِ malḡamayni |
الْمَلْغَمَيْنِ al-malḡamayni |
مَلْغَمَيْ malḡamay |
Plural | basic broken plural diptote | ||
Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
Informal | مَلَاغِم malāḡim |
الْمَلَاغِم al-malāḡim |
مَلَاغِم malāḡim |
Nominative | مَلَاغِمُ malāḡimu |
الْمَلَاغِمُ al-malāḡimu |
مَلَاغِمُ malāḡimu |
Accusative | مَلَاغِمَ malāḡima |
الْمَلَاغِمَ al-malāḡima |
مَلَاغِمَ malāḡima |
Genitive | مَلَاغِمَ malāḡima |
الْمَلَاغِمِ al-malāḡimi |
مَلَاغِمِ malāḡimi |
Derived terms
- تَلَغَّمَ (talaḡḡama, “to put ointment on”)
- أَلْغَمَ (ʔalḡama, “to amalgamate”)
- تَمَلْغَمَ (tamalḡama, “to form an amalgam”)
- لَغْمَطَ (laḡmaṭa, “to besmear”)
Descendants
- → Medieval Latin: amalgama
- → Belarusian: амальга́ма (amalʹháma)
- → Bulgarian: амалга́ма (amalgáma)
- → Catalan: amalgama
- → Czech: amalgám
- → Danish: amalgam
- → Dutch: amalgaam
- Afrikaans: amalgaam
- → English: amalgam
- → Finnish: amalgaami
- → French: amalgame
- → Galician: amálgama
- → German: Amalgam
- → Hungarian: amalgám
- → Icelandic: amalgam
- → Italian: amalgama
- → Macedonian: амалгам (amalgam)
- → Malay: amalgam
- → Norwegian: amalgam
- → Occitan: amalgama
- → Polish: amalgamat
- → Portuguese: amálgama
- → Russian: амальга́ма (amalʹgáma)
- → Kazakh: амальгама (amalgama)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovak: amalgám
- → Slovene: amalgám
- → Spanish: amalgama
- → Swedish: amalgam
- → Turkish: malgama
- → Ukrainian: амальга́ма (amalʹháma)
- → Middle Armenian: մլհամ (mlham), մորհամ (morham), մէրհեմ (mērhem), մէրհէմ (mērhēm)
- → Persian: ملغمه (malğame)
References
- “ملغم” in Almaany
- Freytag, Georg (1837) “ملغم”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 113
- Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ملغم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary[2], London: W.H. Allen, page 1056
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ملغم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1158
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ملغم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1221