جزمة

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Egyptian Arabic

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish چزمه (çizme, boot).

Pronunciation

Noun

جزمة (gázmaf (plural جزم (gízam) or جزمات (gazmā́t))

  1. shoes (a pair)
    انا عملت فى حياتى كل حاجة غلط ممكن تتخيلها الا انى ادوس على جزمة بيضة بتاعة واحد صاحبى.
    ána ʿamáltⁱ fi ḥayā́ti kullⁱ ḥā́ga ḡálaṭ múmkin titḵayyálha lla nn adū́s ʿála gázma bḗḍa bitā́ʿit wā́ḥid ṣáḥbi
    I have done every wrong thing in my life you could imagine, except for stepping on a friend's white shoes.
  2. (vulgar) associated with uncleanliness and impurity
    دا ابن كلب عايز الضرب بستين جزمة
    da bnⁱ kalbⁱ ʿayz iḍ-ḍarbⁱ b-sittī́n gázma.
    He is a son of a bitch and needs to be beaten with sixty shoes.
  3. (obsolete) boots (a pair)

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Derived terms

Descendants

  • Greek: γκάσμα (gkásma) (Egyptiot Dialect)

References

  • Spiro, Socrates (1895) “جزمة”, in An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt, 1st edition, Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office
  • Hinds, Martin, Badawi, El-Said (1986) A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic, Beirut: Librairie du Liban

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish چزمه (çizme, boot).

Pronunciation

Noun

جزمة (jazmaf (plural جزم (jizam) or جزمات (jazmāt))

  1. (a pair of) shoes
    Synonyms: (archaic) كندرة (kundara), (archaic) صرمة (ṣarma)