ملح

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See also: ملخ

Arabic

Etymology

Root
م ل ح (m l ḥ)
8 terms

Inherited from Proto-West Semitic *milḥ-.

Pronunciation

Noun

مِلْح (milḥm (plural أَمْلَاح (ʔamlāḥ) or مِلَاح (milāḥ) or مِلَح (milaḥ) or مِلْحَة (milḥa))

  1. salt
  2. salt water
  3. wit, intellect
  4. knowledge
  5. scholar
  6. beauty, loveliness, grace
  7. oath

Declension

Descendants

  • Gulf Arabic: ملح (milḥ)
  • Moroccan Arabic: ملح
  • Maltese: melħ
  • Hindi: मिल्ह (milha)

Adjective

مِلْح (milḥ)

  1. salty, saline
    Synonym: مَالِح (māliḥ)

References

  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ملح”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “ملح”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ملح”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “ملح”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Hijazi Arabic

Root
م ل ح
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic مِلْح (milḥ, salt).

Pronunciation

Noun

ملح (milḥm

  1. salt

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic مِلْح (milḥ, salt).

Pronunciation

Noun

مْلَح or مَلْح (mlaḥ or malḥm (plural ملحة (malḥa))

  1. salt

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِلْح (milḥ, salt).

Noun

ملح (milh)

  1. salt, a common substance chemically consisting of sodium chloride
    Synonyms: طوز (tuz), نمك (nemek)
  2. (chemistry) salt, one of the compounds formed from the reaction of an acid with a base
  3. (figuratively) wit, intellect, knowledge, learning
  4. (figuratively) salt of the earth, a decent, dependable, unpretentious person

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

South Levantine Arabic

Root
م ل ح
3 terms

Etymology

From Arabic مِلْح (milḥ, salt).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /malħ/,
  • IPA(key): /milħ/,
  • Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

Noun

ملح (milḥ, malḥm

  1. salt

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