لغم

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Arabic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek λαχαίνω (lakhaínō, to dig, to excavate), from Ancient Greek λαχών (lakhṓn, to obtain, to draw, to receive), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lēk- (string, twig, tendril) from the pulling out of lots or herbage from the soil.

Noun

لَغَم or لَغْم or لُغْم (laḡam or laḡm or luḡmm (plural أَلْغَام (ʔalḡām))

  1. mine, tunnel
  2. mine (which explodes)

Declension

Verb

لَغَمَ (laḡama) I (non-past يَلْغَمُ (yalḡamu) or يَلْغُمُ (yalḡumu), verbal noun لَغْم (laḡm))

  1. to mine, to fit explosive material to
  2. to undermine

Conjugation

Verb

لَغَّمَ (laḡḡama) II (non-past يُلَغِّمُ (yulaḡḡimu), verbal noun تَلْغِيم (talḡīm))

  1. to mine, to fit explosive material to

Conjugation

References

  • لغم” in Almaany
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “لغم”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 113
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “لغم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1157

Ottoman Turkish

لغم

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَغْم (laḡm, mine, tunnel), ultimately from Ancient Greek λαχαίνω (lakhaínō, to dig, to excavate).

Noun

لغم (lağım) (definite accusative لغمی (lağımı), plural لغملر (lağımlar))

  1. tunnel, gallery, drift, any underground passage or channel cut through the earth or masonry
    Synonym: نفق (nafak)
  2. drain, sewer, cesspit, any system of pipes used to remove human waste and provide drainage
    Synonym: كریز (giriz, geriz)

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