اجذام

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِجْذَام (ʔijḏām).

Noun

اجذام • (iczâm) (definite accusative اجذامی (iczâmı), plural اجذاملر (iczâmlar))

1. amputation, the surgical removal of all or part of a limb

   Synonym: قطع عضو (katʼ-ı uzv)

2. resolution, a firm decision or an official decision

Descendants

• Turkish: iczam

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “iczam”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2081
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “iczâm”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 488
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “اجذام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 28