لغم

Arabic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λαχαίνω (lakhaínō, to dig, to excavate), from Ancient Greek λαχών (lakhṓn, to obtain, to draw, to receive), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lēk- (string, twig, tendril) from the pulling out of lots or herbage from the soil.

Noun

لَغَم or لَغْم or لُغْم (laḡam or laḡm or luḡm) m (plural أَلْغَام (ʾalḡām))

  1. mine, tunnel
  2. mine (which explodes)

Declension

Verb

لَغَمَ (laḡama) I, non-past يَلْغَمُ or يَلْغُمُ‎ (yalḡamu or yalḡumu)

  1. to mine,
  2. to fit explosive material to
  3. to undermine

Conjugation

Verb

لَغَّمَ (laḡḡama) II, non-past يُلَغِّمُ‎ (yulaḡḡimu)

  1. to mine, to fit explosive material to

Conjugation

References

  • لغم” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1837), لغم”, 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
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), لغم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1157
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