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,
  2. to fit explosive material to
  3. 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; 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
    Synonym: (tunnel) نفق‎ (nafak)
  2. drain, sewer, any system of pipes used to remove human waste

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
  • → Bulgarian: лагъ́м (lagǎ́m)
  • → Macedonian: лагам (lagam)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: lagum / лагум

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