وخيم

Arabic

Etymology

From the root و خ م‎ (w-ḵ-m).

Adjective

وَخِيم or وَخِم • (waḵīm or waḵim) (masculine plural أَوْخَام‎ (ʔawḵām) or وِخَام‎ (wiḵām), elative أَوْخَم‎ (ʔawḵam))

  1. suffering indigestion, troubled with glut
  2. stodgy, troubling to digestion

Declension

Descendants

  • → Ottoman Turkish: وخیم‎ (vahım)

References

  • Freytag, Georg (1837), “وخيم”, 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 447
  • Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “وخيم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1385
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