مرهم

Arabic

Root
ر ه م (r h m)
1 term

Probably borrowed from a Middle Persian medical foreignism taken from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma), which later during the science translation movement was borrowed directly by Arabic from Greek as مَلْغَم (malḡam).

مَرْهَم • (marham) m (plural مَرَاهِم (marāhim))

Declension of noun مَرْهَم (marham)

Singular	basic singular triptote
Singular	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَرْهَم marham	الْمَرْهَم al-marham	مَرْهَم marham
Nominative	مَرْهَمٌ marhamun	الْمَرْهَمُ al-marhamu	مَرْهَمُ marhamu
Accusative	مَرْهَمًا marhaman	الْمَرْهَمَ al-marhama	مَرْهَمَ marhama
Genitive	مَرْهَمٍ marhamin	الْمَرْهَمِ al-marhami	مَرْهَمِ marhami
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَرْهَمَيْن marhamayn	الْمَرْهَمَيْن al-marhamayn	مَرْهَمَيْ marhamay
Nominative	مَرْهَمَانِ marhamāni	الْمَرْهَمَانِ al-marhamāni	مَرْهَمَا marhamā
Accusative	مَرْهَمَيْنِ marhamayni	الْمَرْهَمَيْنِ al-marhamayni	مَرْهَمَيْ marhamay
Genitive	مَرْهَمَيْنِ marhamayni	الْمَرْهَمَيْنِ al-marhamayni	مَرْهَمَيْ marhamay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
Plural	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَرَاهِم marāhim	الْمَرَاهِم al-marāhim	مَرَاهِم marāhim
Nominative	مَرَاهِمُ marāhimu	الْمَرَاهِمُ al-marāhimu	مَرَاهِمُ marāhimu
Accusative	مَرَاهِمَ marāhima	الْمَرَاهِمَ al-marāhima	مَرَاهِمَ marāhima
Genitive	مَرَاهِمَ marāhima	الْمَرَاهِمِ al-marāhimi	مَرَاهِمِ marāhimi

→ Middle Armenian: մորհամ (morham), մէրհեմ (mērhem), մէրհէմ (mērhēm), մլհամ (mlham)
→ Persian: مرهم (marham), ملهم (malham)
- → Azerbaijani: məlhəm
- → Hindustani
  Hindi: मरहम (marham), मलहम (malham)
  
  Urdu: مرہم (marham)
- → Middle Bengali: মলহম (molhom)
  - Bengali: মলম (molom)
- → Ottoman Turkish: مرهم (merhem), ملهم (melhem)
  - Turkish: merhem
  - → Albanian: melhem
  - → Armenian: մէհլէմ (mēhlēm), մա̈հլա̈մ (mähläm)
  - → Bulgarian: мехле́м (mehlém)
  - → Georgian: მალამო (malamo)
  - → Romanian: mehlem
  - → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: мѐлем
    Latin script: mèlem
- → Pashto: ملهم (malám)
- → Turkmen: melhem
- → Uyghur: مەلھەم (melhem)
- → Uzbek: malham
→ Swahili: marhamu

Ahmad Mukhtar Umar, Muʿjam al-Lugha al-ʿArabīya al-Muʿāṣira (d. 2003 CE) معجم اللغة العربية المعاصرة لأحمد مختار عمر
Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 563, mistaking it as a native Middle Iranian word equalling Classical Persian (bar ham, “together”)
Lane, Edward William (1863) “مرهم”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1172a

Borrowed from Arabic مَرْهَم (marham, “ointment, pomade”).

مرهم • (merhem) (plural مراهم (merahim))