لزم

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Arabic

Verb

لَزِمَ (lazima) I (non-past يَلْزَمُ (yalzamu), verbal noun لُزُوم (luzūm))

  1. to be necessary
  2. to be necessary for (someone) (idiomatically translated by English need with the subject and object reversed)
    لَزِمَهُ الْمَالُlazimahu l-māluhe needed money (literally, “money was necessary for him”)
  3. to be permanent
  4. (law) to be binding (of a law)
  5. to be obligatory (of a ruling, etc.)
  6. to follow necessarily (of a conclusion, etc.)
  7. (transitive) to stay permanently in (a location)
  8. (transitive) to cling to, to be inseparable from (someone)
  9. (transitive) to persevere in (something)

Conjugation

South Levantine Arabic

Root
ل ز م
3 terms

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /li.zim/,
  • Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

Verb

لزم (lizim) I (present بلزم (bilzam))

  1. to be necessary

Conjugation

    Conjugation of لزم (lizim)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m لزمت (lzimt) لزمت (lzimt) لزم (lizim) لزمنا (lzimna) لزمتو (lzimtu) لزمو (lizmu)
f لزمتي (lzimti) لزمت (lizmat)
present m بلزم (balzam) بتلزم (btilzam) بلزم (bilzam) منلزم (mnilzam) بتلزمو (btilzamu) بلزمو (bilzamu)
f بتلزمي (btilzami) بتلزم (btilzam)
subjunctive m ألزم (ʔalzam) تلزم (tilzam) يلزم (yilzam) نلزم (nilzam) تلزمو (tilzamu) يلزمو (yilzamu)
f تلزمي (tilzami) تلزم (tilzam)
imperative m الزم (ilzam) الزمو (ilzamu)
f الزمي (ilzami)