balgam

From Arabic بَلْغَم (balḡam, “sputum”), from Ancient Greek φλέγμα (phlégma, “phlegm, a cold slimy humour of the body”). Doublet of flegma.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbalɡam]
• Hyphenation: bal‧gam

balgam (plural balgam-balgam)

1. sputum, phlegm

   Synonyms: dahak, sputum

• “balgam” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• balagam, balgum, bolgam

From Old Irish bolgum (“sip; mouthful, draught”) (compare modern Irish bolgam).

balgam m (genitive singular balgaim, plural balgaman)

1. mouthful (of a drink), sip, gulp

   A bheil thu ag iarraidh balgam teatha?

   Do you want a drink of tea?

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “balgam”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “bolgum”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

From Ottoman Turkish بلغم (balgam), from Arabic بَلْغَم (balḡam).

balgam (definite accusative balgamı, plural balgamlar)

1. sputum, phlegm

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “بلغم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 276a