لازم

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Arabic

Etymology

Root
ل ز م (l-z-m)

Derived from the active participle of لَزِمَ (lazima, to be necessary, to be inseparable).

Adjective

لَازِم (lāzim) (feminine لَازِمَة (lāzima), masculine plural لَازِمُونَ (lāzimūna), feminine plural لَازِمَات (lāzimāt) or لَوَازِم (lawāzim), elative أَلْزَم (ʔalzam))

  1. necessary, urgent, unavoidable
  2. obligatory
  3. closely adhering to, inseparable, inherent
  4. entirely addicted or devoted to
  5. worthy, fit
  6. (grammar) intransitive, neuter
    Antonym: مُتَعَدٍّ (mutaʕaddin)

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

References

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic لَازِم (lāzim, necessary, urgent).

Pronunciation

Adverb

لازم (lāzim)

  1. (false verb, followed by subjunctive verb) must; gotta
    لأ سوري، لازم تسأل حدا تاني
    Laʾ sōrī, lāzim tisʾal ḥadā tānī.
    No, sorry, you gotta ask someone else.

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic لَازِم (lāzim).

Adjective

لازم (lazım)

  1. necessary

Descendants

References

  • Mallouf, Nassif (1856) “nécessaire”, in Dictionnaire français-turc, 2nd edition, Paris: Maisonneuve, page 503

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic لَازِم (lāzim).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? lāzim
Dari reading? lāzim
Iranian reading? lâzem
Tajik reading? lozim

Adjective

Dari لازم
Iranian Persian
Tajik лозим

لازِم (lâzem) (comparative لازِم‌تَر (lâzem-tar), superlative لازِم‌تَرین (lâzem-tarin))

  1. necessary

Derived terms

Descendants

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ل ز م
3 terms

Etymology

From Arabic لَازِم (lāzim, necessary, urgent).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /laː.zim/,
  • (file)

Adjective

لازم (lāzem) (feminine لازمة (lāzme), common plural لوازم (lawāzem))

  1. necessary

Adverb

لازم (lāzem)

  1. (false verb, followed by subjunctive verb) must

See also

  • اضطر (iḍṭarr, to have to, be obligated to)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian لَازِم (lāzim), from Arabic لَازِم (lāzim).

Pronunciation

Adjective

لازِم (lāzim) (Hindi spelling लाज़िम)

  1. necessary, imperative
    Synonym: واجِب (vājib)
  2. inevitable
  3. (grammar) intransitive

Further reading

  • لازم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • لازم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “لازم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.