لجام

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Arabic

Etymology

From Classical Persian لگام (ligām) or from an identical rare Aramaic term, see there.

Pronunciation

Noun

لِجَام (lijāmm (plural أَلْجِمَة (ʔaljima) or لُجُم (lujum)) (countable)

  1. (now rare) a bridle bit
    Synonym: شَكِيمَة (šakīma)
  2. a horse headcollar or headstall along with the reins; a bridle
    Hypernym: رَسَن (rasan, an animal halter)

Declension

Descendants

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973) “լկամ”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 289a
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 9
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 100
  • Freytag, Georg (1837) “لجام”, 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 88
  • Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 307
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, pages 41–42