lagum
Maguindanao
Noun
lagum
- needle
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لغم (lağım), from Arabic لَغْم (laḡm), ultimately derived from Ancient Greek λᾰ́κκος (lákkos, “cavity”) [1] or Ancient Greek λαχαίνω (lakhaínō, “to dig, to excavate”), from Ancient Greek λαχών (lakhṓn, “to obtain, to draw, to receive”). Compare obsolete or dialectal Bulgarian лагъм (lagǎm, “underground tunnel”).
Noun
lagum m (Cyrillic spelling лагум)
- mine
- underground tunnel
- cellar
Declension
Declension of lagum
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | lagum | lagumi |
| genitive | laguma | lagumā |
| dative | lagumu | lagumima |
| accusative | lagum | lagume |
| vocative | lagume | lagumi |
| locative | lagumu | lagumima |
| instrumental | lagumom | lagumima |
Synonyms
- (mine): rudnik
- (cellar): podrum
References
- Skok, Petar (1971) Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 1, Zagreb: JAZU, page 261