ملغم

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma, “emollient; malleable material”), related to μαλάσσω (malássō, “to soften”) and μαλακός (malakós, “soft”).

Noun

مَلْغَم • (malḡam) m (plural مَلَاغِم‎ (malāḡim))

Declension

Declension of noun مَلْغَم (malḡam)

Singular	basic singular triptote
Singular	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
Plural	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 (ʾalḡama, “to amalgamate”)
تَمَلْغَمَ‎ (tamalḡama, “to form an amalgam”)
لَغْمَطَ‎ (laḡmaṭa, “to besmear”)

Descendants

→ Medieval Latin: amalgama
- → Belarusian: амальга́ма (amalʹháma)
- → Bulgarian: амалга̀ма (amalgàma)
- → Catalan: amalgama
- → Czech: amalgám
- → Danish: amalgam
- → Dutch: amalgaam
  - Afrikaans: amalgaam
- → English: amalgam
- → Finnish: amalgaami
- → French: amalgame
  - → Greek: αμάλγαμα (amálgama)
  - → Latvian: amalgama
  - → Lithuanian: amalgamà
- → Galician: amálgama
- → German: Amalgam
- → Icelandic: amalgam
- → Italian: amalgama
- → Macedonian: амалгам (amalgam)
- → Malay: amalgam
- → Norwegian: amalgam
- → Occitan: amalgama
- → Polish: amalgamat
- → Portuguese: amálgama
- → Romanian: amalgam
- → Russian: амальга́ма (amalʹgáma)
  - → Kazakh: амальгама (amalʹgama)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  - Cyrillic: ама̀лга̄м
  - Latin: amàlgām
- → Slovak: amalgám
- → Slovene: amalgám
- → Spanish: amalgama
- → Swedish: amalgam
- → Ukrainian: амальга́ма (amalʹháma)
→ Persian: ملغمه‎‎‎ (malğame)
- → 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 (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 113
Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “ملغم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 1056
Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ملغم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1158
Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ملغم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1221

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