לחמא

Compare Hebrew לֶחֶם‎ (lékhem, “bread, food”) and Arabic لَحْم‎ (laḥm, “meat”)

לַחְמָא • (laḥmā) m (uncountable)

1. bread
   • a. 500 C.E., Babylonian Talmud, Berachot 35b:

     ‏אלא חמרא סעיד ומשמח לחמא סעיד מיסעד שמוחי לא משמח‎

     ʾellā ḥamrā śəʿīḏ ūməsammḗaḥ laḥmā śəʿīḏ miśʿaḏ śammūḥē lā məsammḗaḥ

     Only wine satiates and makes one happy; bread indeed satiates, but does not actually make one happy.

   • Passover Haggadah:

     ‏הָא לַחְמָא עַנְיָא דִּי אֲכָלוּ אַבְהָתָנָא בְּאַרְעָא דְמִצְרַיִם‎

     hā laḥmā ʿanyā dī ʾăḵā́lū ʾaḇhāṯānā bəʾarʿā ḏəmiṣráyim

     this is the poor bread that our ancestors ate in the Land of Egypt

2. food
   • Daniel 5:1, with translation of the Jewish Publication Society:

     ‏בֵּלְשַׁאצַּר מַלְכָּא עֲבַד לְחֶם רַב לְרַבְרְבָנוֹהִי אֲלַף וְלָקֳבֵל אַלְפָּא חַמְרָא שָׁתֵה׃‎‎

     bēləšaṣṣar malkā ʿăḇaḏ ləḥem raḇ ləraḇrəḇānṓhī ʾălap̄ wəloqŏḇēl ʾalpā ḥamrā šāṯē.

     Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

• Middle Persian: (in spelling) 𐭫𐭧𐭬𐭠‎ (nān [LḤMʾ])