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Arabic
Noun
טלסם • (transliteration needed) m
- Judeo-Arabic spelling of طِلَّسْم (ṭillasm, “talisman”)
- c. 1300 CE, Cairo Genizah, Judeo-Arabic version of Thābit ibn Qurra's De imaginibus, quoted in Burnett, Charles and Gideon Bohak, "A Judaeo-Arabic Version of Tābit ibn Qurra’s De Imaginibus and Pseudo-Ptolemy’s Opus Imaginum," in Felicitas Opwis and David Reisman, eds., Islamic Philosophy, Science, Culture, and Religion: Studies in Honor of Dimitri Gutas (Leiden: Brill, 2012), p. 188:
טלסם יסתעמל לאתצאל אלסלטאן ואכ'ד רג'אלה וקואדה- Talisman used for making contact between the ruler and one of his men and his officers.