طالم

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Arabic

Etymology

From Malayalam താലം (tālaṁ, dish), from തലം (talaṁ, sole; base, bottom, under).

Pronunciation

Noun

طَالَم (ṭālamm (plural طَوَالِم (ṭawālim))

  1. a flat platter to serve rice, a thali
    • 1355, اِبْن بَطُّوطَة [ibn baṭṭūṭa, Ibn Baṭṭūṭa], edited by Charles Defrémery & Beniamino Sanguinetti, تُحْفَةُ ٱلنُّظَّارِ فِي غَرَائِبِ ٱلْأَمْصَارِ وَعَجَائِبِ ٱلْأَسْفَارِ [tuḥfatu n-nuẓẓāri fī ḡarāʔibi l-ʔamṣāri waʕajāʔibi l-ʔasfāri]‎, volume IV, Paris: L'imprimerie impériale/nationale, published 1858, page 69, line 2:

Declension

References

  • Lambourn, Elizabeth (2015) “Irreverent History: Essays for M. G. S. Narayanan”, in Kesavan Veluthat and Donald Davis Jr., editors, Borrowed Words in an Ocean of Objects: Geniza sources and new cultural histories of the Indian Ocean, New Delhi: Primus Books, →ISBN, pages 363–414
  • Lambourn, Elizabeth (2018) Abraham's Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 107
  • Lambourn, Elizabeth (2018) Abraham's Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 112
  • Lambourn, Elizabeth (2018) Abraham's Luggage: A Social Life of Things in the Medieval Indian Ocean World, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 267