لاجرم

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَا جَرَمَ (lā jarama).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /laː.d͡ʒa.ˈɾam/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [lɑː.d͡ʒä.ɾäm]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [lɑː.d͡ʒä.ɾäm]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [lɔː.d͡ʒä.ɾäm]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [lɒː.d͡ʒæ.ɹæm]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [lɔ.d͡ʒä.ɾäm]

Readings
Classical reading^?	lājaram
Dari reading^?	lājaram
Iranian reading^?	lâjaram
Tajik reading^?	lojaram


Iranian Persian	لاجرم
Dari	لاجرم
Tajik	лоҷарам

Adverb

لاجرم • (lâjaram)

necessarily, of necessity
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 434:
  ما که کورانه عصاها میزنیم
  لاجرم قندیلها را بشکنیم
  mā ki kōrāna 'asā-hā mē-zanīm
  lājaram qandīl-hā rā bi-šikanīm
  We who blindly brandish staffs
  cannot help breaking lamps.
certainly, undoubtedly
therefore, consequently

References

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