ልጋም

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Tigre

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from a rare Aramaic if not a pre-Islamic borrowing from Arabic لِجَام (lijām).

Noun

ልጋም (ləgam) (plural አልግመት (ʾälgəmät), and አለግመት (ʾäläggəmät), diminutive ልጌማይ (ləgemay), diminutive plural አልግሜታም (ʾälgəmetam))

  1. bridle

Derived terms

  • ለግመ (lägmä, to bridle; to load with ammunition; to be incurable; to render silent)
  • ላገመ (lagämä, to be engaged in bridling, loading etc., intensive)
  • አልገመ (ʾälgämä, causative)
  • አተልገመ (ʾättälgämä, double causative)
  • ትለገመ (təläggämä, to become silent)
  • ተሎገመ (täloggämä, to become bridled)
  • ትላገመ (təlagämä, passive of the intensive)

References

  • Munzinger, Werner (1865) “ልጋም”, in Vocabulaire de la langue tigré (in French), Leipzig: T.O. Weigel, page 13
  • Littmann, Enno, Höfner, Maria (1962) “ልጋም”, in Wörterbuch der Tigrē-Sprache. Tigrē—Deutsch—Englisch (Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur; XI)‎, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag GmbH, page 48