جزمة
Egyptian Arabic
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish چزمه (çizme, “boot”), Modern Turkish çizme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɡæzˈmæ]
Noun
جزمة • (gázma) f (plural جزم (gízam) or جزمات (gazmā́t))
- shoes (a pair)
- انا عملت فى حياتى كل حاجة غلط ممكن تتخيلها الا انى ادوس على جزمة بيضة بتاعة واحد صاحبى.
- ána ʿamáltⁱ fi ḥayā́ti kullⁱ ḥā́ga ḡálaṭ múmkin titḵayyálha lla nn adū́s ʿála gázma bḗḍa bitā́ʿit wā́ḥid ṣáḥbi
- 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
- He is a son of a bitch and needs to be beaten with sixty shoes.
- da bnⁱ kalbⁱ ʿayz iḍ-ḍarbⁱ b-sittī́n gázma.
- (obsolete) boots (a pair)
Synonyms
- كوتشى
- حذاء
Derived terms
- جزماتى
- جزمة باتيناچ
- جزمة برباط
- جزمة سوارى
- جزمجى
References
- Spiro, Socrates (1895). An Arabic-English vocabulary of the colloquial Arabic of Egypt, containing the vernacular idioms and expressions, slang phrases, etc., etc., used by the native Egyptians Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office.
- Hinds, Martin; Badawi, El-Said (1986). A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic Beirut: Librairie du Liban.
Hijazi Arabic
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish چزمه (çizme, “boot”), Modern Turkish çizme.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d͡ʒazma/
Synonyms
- كندرة (archaic)
- صرمة (archaic)
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