बलग़म

See also: बलगम and बलगमु

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَلْغَم (balğam), from Arabic بَلْغَم (balḡam), from Ancient Greek φλέγμα (phlégma). Compare Awadhi बलगमु (balgamu).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /bəl.ɣəm/, [bɐl.ɣɐ̃m], /bəl.ɡəm/, [bɐl.ɡɐ̃m]
• Hyphenation: बल‧ग़म
• Rhymes: -əm

Noun

बलग़म • (balġam) m (Urdu spelling بَلْغَم)

1. phlegm, mucus

   Synonyms: कफ (kaph), श्लेष्मा (śleṣmā)

Declension

Declension of बलग़म (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	बलग़म balġam	बलग़म balġam
oblique	बलग़म balġam	बलग़मों balġamõ
vocative	बलग़म balġam	बलग़मो balġamo

Derived terms

• बलग़मी (balġamī)

Further reading

More information

• “बलग़म”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• “बलगम”, in Hindwi Dictionary [including the languages of Hindi region] (in Hindi), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “बलग़म”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 712
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “बलगम”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 3406
• Kuczkiewicz-Fraś, Agnieszka (2008) “balgam”, in Perso-Arabic Loanwords in Hindustani, Part 1 Dictionary, Kraków: Księgarnia Akademicka, →ISBN, page 88.