لگام
Persian
Etymology
- Müller derives from Latin ligāmen.[1]
- Fraenkel sees a Semitic origin in that the Aramaic forms means the maxillary, and Arabic لَقِمَ (laqima) means “to swallow” – cognate to Ge'ez ለቀመ (läḳämä, “to chew on, to eat”), Tigrinya ለቐመ (läḳʰämä, “to chew on, to eat”), and probably identical to Ge'ez ለቀመ (läḳämä, “to pick, to choose”), Tigrinya ለቐመ (läḳʰämä, “to pick, to peck, to graze”), Amharic ለቀመ (läḳämä, “to peck, to glean, to graze”)[2] –, with Nöldeke thus seeing Aramaic origin as secured; but the rarity and late attestation of the Aramaic words raises doubts, and for the same reason it is difficult to explain that the Ethiopian Semitic word for the bridle is attested in pre-Islamic times already.[3][4][5]
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [leˈɡɒːm]
Noun
لگام • (legâm)
- bridle
Descendants
- → Arabic: لِجَام (lijām)
- → Amharic: ልጓም (ləgʷam)
- → Ge'ez: ልጓም (ləgʷam)
- → Persian: لجام (lejâm)
- → Tigrinya: ልጓም (ləgʷam)
- → Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: לוּגְמׇא (lūḡmā)
- → Classical Syriac: ܠܓܡܐ (lgāmā), ܠܘܓܡܐ (lūḡmā, luḡmā)
- → Georgian: ლაგამი (lagami)
- → Middle Armenian: լկամ (lkam)
References
- Müller, Friedrich (1896), “Armeniaca”, in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes (in German), volume 10, page 181
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 317
- Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 100
- Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, pages 41–42
- Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 307