طالم

See also: ظالم‎

Arabic

Etymology

From Malayalam താലം (tālaṃ, “dish”), from തലം (talaṃ, “sole; base, bottom, under”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tˤaː.lam/

Noun

طَالَم • (ṭālam) m (plural طَوَالِم‎ (ṭawālim))

  1. a flat platter to serve rice, a thali
    • 1355, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa, Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, editor, تحفة النظار في غرائب الأمصار وعجائب الأسفار [tuḥfat an-nuẓẓār fī ḡarāʾib al-ʾamṣār wa ʿajāʾib al-ʾasfār]‎, volume IV, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1858, line 2, page 69:

Declension

References

  • Lambourn, Elizabeth (2015), “Irreverent History: Essays for M. G. S. Narayanan”, in Kesavan Veluthat and Donald Davis Jr., editors, Borrowed Words in an Ocean of Objects: Geniza sources and new cultural histories of the Indian Ocean‎, New Delhi: Primus Books, →ISBN, pages 363–414
  • Lambourn, Elizabeth (2018) Abraham's Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 107
  • Lambourn, Elizabeth (2018) Abraham's Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 112
  • Lambourn, Elizabeth (2018) Abraham's Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 267
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