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 (ʔalḡām))

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

Declension

Verb

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

  1. to mine, to fit explosive material to
  2. 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 with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “لغم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1157

Ottoman Turkish

لغم

Alternative forms

  • لاغم (lağım), لاغیم (lağım)

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَغْم (laḡm, mine, tunnel).

Noun

لغم • (lağım)

  1. any underground tunnel, mine, or drift of a mine
    Synonyms: (tunnel) تونل (tünel), نفق (nafak)
  2. drain, sewer, any system of pipes used to remove human waste
    Synonym: گریز (giriz, geriz)

Derived terms

  • لغم آتمق (lağım atmak, to blow up)
  • لغم اچمق (lağım açmak, to dig out a mine or sewer)
  • لغم قیوسی (lağım kuyusu, sinkhole to a sewer)
  • لغم پاتلامق (lağım patlamak, to burst)
  • لغمجی (lağımcı, maker or cleanser of sewers)
  • لغملامق (lağımlamak, to mine or undermine)

Descendants

  • Turkish: lağım
  • Albanian: llagëm
  • Armenian: լաղըմ (laġəm)
  • Bulgarian: лагъ́м (lagǎ́m)
  • Greek: λαγούμι (lagoúmi)
  • Macedonian: лагам (lagam)
  • Serbo-Croatian: lagum / лагум

Further reading

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