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))

  1. softening ointment, emollient poultice
  2. amalgam

Declension

Derived terms

  • تَلَغَّمَ (talaḡḡama, to put ointment on)
  • أَلْغَمَ (ʾalḡama, to amalgamate)
  • تَمَلْغَمَ (tamalḡama, to form an amalgam)
  • لَغْمَطَ (laḡmaṭa, to besmear)

Descendants

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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