ልጓም

ልጓም

Amharic

Etymology

Borrowed from a rare Aramaic if not a pre-Islamic borrowing from Arabic لِجَام‎ (lijām).

Noun

ልጓም • (ləgʷam)

1. bridle

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Argobba

Noun

ልጓም (ləgʷam)

1. bridle

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Gafat

Noun

ልጓም (ləgʷam)

1. bridle

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Ge'ez

Etymology

Borrowed from a rare Aramaic if not a pre-Islamic borrowing from Arabic لِجَام‎ (lijām).

Noun

ልጓም • (ləgʷam) (plural ልጓማት (ləgʷamat), and አልጓም (ʾälgʷam))

1. bridle
2. halter, band, holdfast

Derived terms

• ለጐመ (lägʷämä, “to bridle or otherwise restrain”)
• አልጐመ (ʾälgʷämä, “to bridle; to put into silence”)
• ተለጕመ (tälägʷmä, “to be or become silent”)
• ልጉም (ləgum, “bridled or otherwise restrained”)
• መልጐም (mälgʷäm, “bridle”)

References

• Dillmann, August (1865), “ልጓም”, in Lexicon linguae aethiopicae cum indice latino (in Latin), Leipzig: T. O. Weigel, column 263–264
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 307b
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎ (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, pages 41–42

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Tigrinya

Etymology

Borrowed from a rare Aramaic if not a pre-Islamic borrowing from Arabic لِجَام‎ (lijām).

Noun

ልጓም • (ləgʷam)

1. bridle