مرهم
Arabic
| Root |
|---|
| ر ه م (r h m) |
| 1 term |
Etymology
Probably borrowed from a Middle Persian medical foreignism taken from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma), which later during the science translation movement was borrowed directly by Arabic from Greek as مَلْغَم (malḡam).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mar.ham/
Noun
مَرْهَم • (marham) m (plural مَرَاهِم (marāhim))
Declension
| singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | مَرْهَم marham |
الْمَرْهَم al-marham |
مَرْهَم marham |
| nominative | مَرْهَمٌ marhamun |
الْمَرْهَمُ al-marhamu |
مَرْهَمُ marhamu |
| accusative | مَرْهَمًا marhaman |
الْمَرْهَمَ al-marhama |
مَرْهَمَ marhama |
| genitive | مَرْهَمٍ marhamin |
الْمَرْهَمِ al-marhami |
مَرْهَمِ marhami |
| dual | indefinite | definite | construct |
| informal | مَرْهَمَيْن marhamayn |
الْمَرْهَمَيْن al-marhamayn |
مَرْهَمَيْ marhamay |
| nominative | مَرْهَمَانِ marhamāni |
الْمَرْهَمَانِ al-marhamāni |
مَرْهَمَا marhamā |
| accusative | مَرْهَمَيْنِ marhamayni |
الْمَرْهَمَيْنِ al-marhamayni |
مَرْهَمَيْ marhamay |
| genitive | مَرْهَمَيْنِ marhamayni |
الْمَرْهَمَيْنِ al-marhamayni |
مَرْهَمَيْ marhamay |
| plural | basic broken plural diptote | ||
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | مَرَاهِم marāhim |
الْمَرَاهِم al-marāhim |
مَرَاهِم marāhim |
| nominative | مَرَاهِمُ marāhimu |
الْمَرَاهِمُ al-marāhimu |
مَرَاهِمُ marāhimu |
| accusative | مَرَاهِمَ marāhima |
الْمَرَاهِمَ al-marāhima |
مَرَاهِمَ marāhima |
| genitive | مَرَاهِمَ marāhima |
الْمَرَاهِمِ al-marāhimi |
مَرَاهِمِ marāhimi |
Descendants
- → Middle Armenian: մորհամ (morham), մէրհեմ (mērhem), մէրհէմ (mērhēm), մլհամ (mlham)
- → Persian: مرهم (marham), ملهم (malham)
- → Swahili: marhamu
References
- Ahmad Mukhtar Umar, Muʿjam al-Lugha al-ʿArabīya al-Muʿāṣira (d. 2003 CE) معجم اللغة العربية المعاصرة لأحمد مختار عمر
- Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 563, mistaking it as a native Middle Iranian word equalling Classical Persian بَر هَم (bar ham, “together”)
- Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “مرهم”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1172a.
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- ملهم (melhem)
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مَرْهَم (marham, “ointment, pomade”).
Noun
مرهم • (merhem) (plural مراهم (merahim))
Derived terms
- آق مرهم (ak merhem, “zinc ointment”)
- اویوز مرهم (uyuz merhem, “sulphur ointment”)
- جیوه مرهم (cıva merhem, “ointment of mercury”)
- سرور مرهم (surur merhem, “red precipitate ointment”)
- مرهم اولمق (merhem olmak, “to be the solution to a problem”)
- مرهم سورمك (merhem sürmek, “to apply an ointment”)
- مرهمجی (merhemci, “maker or seller of ointments”)
- مرهملو (merhemli, “dressed with ointment”)
- چوبان مرهم (çoban merhem, “ointment of mastic”)
Descendants
- Turkish: merhem
- → Albanian: melhem
- → Armenian: մէհլէմ (mēhlēm), մա̈հլա̈մ (mähläm)
- → Bulgarian: мехле́м (mehlém)
- → Georgian: მალამო (malamo)
- → Romanian: mehlem
- → Serbo-Croatian:
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “merhem”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3152
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “merhem”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 742
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مرهم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1153
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Emplastrum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[3], Vienna, column 465
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مرهم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[4], Vienna, column 4588
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “merhem”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مرهم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1818