ملغم

ملغم

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma, “emollient; malleable material”), related to μαλάσσω (malássō, “to soften”) and μαλακός (malakós, “soft”).

Noun

مَلْغَم • (malḡam) m (plural مَلَاغِم‎ (malāḡim))

1. softening ointment, emollient poultice
2. amalgam

Declension

Declension of noun مَلْغَم (malḡam)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَلْغَم malḡam	الْمَلْغَم‎ al-malḡam	مَلْغَم malḡam
Nominative	مَلْغَمٌ malḡamun	الْمَلْغَمُ‎ al-malḡamu	مَلْغَمُ malḡamu
Accusative	مَلْغَمًا‎ malḡaman	الْمَلْغَمَ‎ al-malḡama	مَلْغَمَ malḡama
Genitive	مَلْغَمٍ malḡamin	الْمَلْغَمِ‎ al-malḡami	مَلْغَمِ malḡami
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَلْغَمَيْن‎ malḡamayn	الْمَلْغَمَيْن‎ al-malḡamayn	مَلْغَمَيْ‎ malḡamay
Nominative	مَلْغَمَانِ‎ malḡamāni	الْمَلْغَمَانِ‎ al-malḡamāni	مَلْغَمَا‎ malḡamā
Accusative	مَلْغَمَيْنِ‎ malḡamayni	الْمَلْغَمَيْنِ‎ al-malḡamayni	مَلْغَمَيْ‎ malḡamay
Genitive	مَلْغَمَيْنِ‎ malḡamayni	الْمَلْغَمَيْنِ‎ al-malḡamayni	مَلْغَمَيْ‎ malḡamay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَلَاغِم‎ malāḡim	الْمَلَاغِم‎ al-malāḡim	مَلَاغِم‎ malāḡim
Nominative	مَلَاغِمُ‎ malāḡimu	الْمَلَاغِمُ‎ al-malāḡimu	مَلَاغِمُ‎ malāḡimu
Accusative	مَلَاغِمَ‎ malāḡima	الْمَلَاغِمَ‎ al-malāḡima	مَلَاغِمَ‎ malāḡima
Genitive	مَلَاغِمَ‎ malāḡima	الْمَلَاغِمِ‎ al-malāḡimi	مَلَاغِمِ‎ malāḡimi

Derived terms

• تَلَغَّمَ‎ (talaḡḡama, “to put ointment on”)
• أَلْغَمَ‎ (ʾalḡama, “to amalgamate”)
• تَمَلْغَمَ‎ (tamalḡama, “to form an amalgam”)
• لَغْمَطَ‎ (laḡmaṭa, “to besmear”)

Descendants

• → Medieval Latin: amalgama
  • → Belarusian: амальга́ма (amalʹháma)
  • → Bulgarian: амалга̀ма (amalgàma)
  • → Catalan: amalgama
  • → Czech: amalgám
  • → Danish: amalgam
  • → Dutch: amalgaam
    • Afrikaans: amalgaam
  • → English: amalgam
  • → Finnish: amalgaami
  • → French: amalgame
    • → Greek: αμάλγαμα (amálgama)
    • → Latvian: amalgama
    • → Lithuanian: amalgamà
  • → Galician: amálgama
  • → German: Amalgam
  • → Icelandic: amalgam
  • → Italian: amalgama
  • → Macedonian: амалгам (amalgam)
  • → Malay: amalgam
  • → Norwegian: amalgam
  • → Occitan: amalgama
  • → Polish: amalgamat
  • → Portuguese: amálgama
  • → Romanian: amalgam
  • → Russian: амальга́ма (amalʹgáma)
    • → Kazakh: амальгама (amalʹgama)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic: ама̀лга̄м
    • Latin: amàlgām
  • → Slovak: amalgám
  • → Slovene: amalgám
  • → Spanish: amalgama
  • → Swedish: amalgam
  • → Ukrainian: амальга́ма (amalʹháma)
• → Persian: ملغمه‎‎‎ (malğame)
  • → Turkish: malgama / ملغمه‎

References

• “ملغم” in Almaany
• Freytag, Georg (1837), “ملغم”, 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 113
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “ملغم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, London: W.H. Allen, page 1056
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ملغم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1158
• Wehr, Hans; Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ملغم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1221