جزمة
Egyptian Arabic
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چیزمه (çizme, “boot”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡaz.ma/, [ˈɡæzmæ]
Noun
جزمة • (gazma) f (plural جزم (gizam) or جزمات (gazmāt))
- shoes (a pair)
- Synonyms: كوتش, حذاء, صرمة
- انا عملت فى حياتى كل حاجة غلط ممكن تتخيلها الا انى ادوس على جزمة بيضة بتاعة واحد صاحبى.
- ana ʕamalt fi ḥayāti kull ḥāga ḡalaṭ mumkin titḵayyalha illa inni adūs ʕala gazma bēḍa bitāʕit wāḥid ṣaḥbi
- I have done every wrong thing in my life you could imagine, except for stepping on a friend's white shoes.
- (vulgar) associated with uncleanliness and impurity
- دا ابن كلب عايز الضرب بستين جزمة
- da bni kalb ʕāyiz iḍ-ḍarb b-sittīn gazma.
- He is a son of a bitch and needs to be beaten with sixty shoes.
- (obsolete) boots (a pair)
Derived terms
- جزماتى
- جزمة باتيناچ
- جزمة برباط
- جزمة سوارية
- جزمجى
Descendants
- → Greek: γκάσμα (gkásma) (Egyptiot Dialect)
References
- Spiro, Socrates (1895) “جزمة”, in An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt, 1st edition, Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office
- Hinds, Martin, Badawi, El-Said (1986) A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic[1], Beirut: Librairie du Liban
Hijazi Arabic
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چیزمه (çizme, “boot”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d͡ʒaz.ma/
Noun
جزمة • (jazma) f (plural جزم (jizam) or جزمات (jazmāt))