ملغم
Arabic
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma, “emollient; malleable material”), related to μαλάσσω (malássō, “to soften”) and μαλακός (malakós, “soft”). The same term has been acquired via Middle Persian as مَرْهَم (marham).
Noun
مَلْغَم • (malḡam) m (plural مَلَاغِم (malāḡim))
Declension
| singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 (see there for further descendants)
- → Persian: ملغمه (malġame)
- → Turkish: malgama / ملغمه
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