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Karakhanid
Etymology
From Proto-Turkic *ölim (“death”), from *öl- (“to die”). Cognate with Turkish ölüm and Chuvash вилӗм (vilĕm)
Noun
اُلُمْ (ölüm)
- death
Descendants
References
- al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, page 75
Persian
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Arabic أَلَم (ʔalam).
Pronunciation
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alam
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alam
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alam
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Noun
الم • (alam) (plural آلام (âlâm))
- pain
- Synonyms: درد (dard), رنج (ranj)
c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume I, verse 47:هر یکی از ما مسیح عالمی است
هر الم را در کف ما مرهمی است- har yakē az mā masīh-i ālamē ast
har alam rā dar kaff-i mā marhamē ast - Each of us is a Messiah of a world : in our hands is a medicine for every pain.
- grief
- Synonym: غم (ğam)
Etymology 2
Noun
الم • (alom)
- (archaic or dialectal) millet; green foxtail millet, wild foxtail millet (Setaria viridis)
Urdu
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अलम् (álam).
Pronunciation
Adverb
الم • (alam) (Hindi spelling अलम्) (rare)
- enough, sufficient, adequate, equal to
References
- Platts, John T. (1884) “الم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.