لم

• IPA^(key): /lam/

لَمْ • (lam)

1. not (negating past tense)

   See also: مَا

   لَمْ يَكْتُبْ ― lam yaktub ― He has not written.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 98:1:

     لَمۡ يَكُنِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ مِنۡ أَهۡلِ ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ وَٱلۡمُشۡرِكِينَ مُنفَكِّينَ حَتَّىٰ تَأۡتِيَهُمُ ٱلۡبَيِّنَةُ.

     Those who disbelieved among the People of the Scripture and the polytheists were not to be parted [from misbelief] until there came to them clear evidence.

• لم is used to deny the past. It governs the jussive of the verb.

• Negative particles: لَا (lā), لَن (lan), مَا (mā)
• لَيْسَ (laysa)

• IPA^(key): /li.ma/

لِمَ • (lima)

1. for what, why
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 61:2-3:

     يَا أَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لِمَ تَقُولُونَ مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ ۝ كَبُرَ مَقْتًا عِنْدَ ٱللّٰهِ أَن تَقُولُوا مَا لَا تَفْعَلُونَ

     O you who have believed! Why do you say what you do not do? Great is hatred in the sight of Allah that you say what you do not do.

• IPA^(key): /lum/

لُمْ • (lum) (form I)

1. second-person masculine singular active imperative of لَامَ (lāma)

لم • (lamm) I (non-past يلم (yilimm))

1. to collect, to gather

لم (lam)

1. bramble

Akin to Persian دنب (donb, “tail”); see it for more.

لم • (lëm) m

1. tail