لقمة

لقمة

Arabic

Etymology

From the root ل ق م‎ (l-q-m).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luq.ma/

Noun

لُقْمَة • (luqma) f (plural لُقَم‎ (luqam))

1. bite
2. bit, mouthful
3. little piece, morsel

Declension

Declension of noun لُقْمَة (luqma)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	لُقْمَة luqma	اللُّقْمَة‎ al-luqma	لُقْمَة luqmat
Nominative	لُقْمَةٌ luqmatun	اللُّقْمَةُ‎ al-luqmatu	لُقْمَةُ luqmatu
Accusative	لُقْمَةً luqmatan	اللُّقْمَةَ‎ al-luqmata	لُقْمَةَ luqmata
Genitive	لُقْمَةٍ luqmatin	اللُّقْمَةِ‎ al-luqmati	لُقْمَةِ luqmati

Descendants

• Gulf Arabic: لقمة‎ (ligma, lugma)
• Hijazi Arabic: لقمة‎ (lugma)
• Maltese: loqma
• → Ottoman Turkish: لقمه‎ (lokma)
  • → Greek: λουκουμάς (loukoumás)
  • → Turkish: lokma
    • → English: lokma
• → Persian: لقمه‎ (loqme)
  • → Bengali: লোকমা (lokma)

References

• Баранов, Х. К. (2011), “لقمة”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “لقمة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
• Wehr, Hans (1960), “لقمة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz

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Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic لُقْمَة‎ (luqma); from the root ل ق م‎ (l-q-m) “to load, to feed”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈluɡma/

Noun

لُقْمَة • (lugma) f (plural لُقْمات‎ (lugmāt) or لُقَم‎ (lugam))

1. bite
2. mouthful