دملوج

Arabic

Alternative forms

• دُمْلُج (dumluj), دُمْلَج (dumlaj)

Etymology

Uncertain. Ge'ez ድጕልማ (dəgʷləma), ድልጕማ (dəlgʷəma) may be its origin, even in spite of or because of a Sabaean 𐩵𐩴𐩡𐩣𐩩𐩣 (dglmtm, plural) attested in the same meaning, reported as booty from the Aethiopians; which does not exclude ultimate origin in a language of Southern Arabia. Yemeni Arabic provides a verb دَمْلَج (damlaj, “to roll”), such as Egyptian Arabic دحرج (dahrag), so it might be literally something “rolled around”, as also suggested by the root د م ل (d-m-l) related to adjustion and د م ج (d-m-j) related to insertion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dum.luːd͡ʒ/

Noun

دُمْلُوج • (dumlūj) m (plural دَمَالِيج (damālīj))

1. bangle, armlet, piece of jewelry women install around the upper arm for adornment purposes

   Synonym: مِعْضَد (miʕḍad)

   • c. 800, أبو الشيص محمد, قُلْ للطّويلة موضع العِقْد:

     فنظرتِ ما يَعْملن في الخدِ
     لولا التمنطق والسّوار معاً
     والحِجْلُ والدُملوج في العضْدِ
     لتزايَلَتْ من كلّ ناحية
     لكنْ جُعِلْن لها على عَمْدِ

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. a kind of circular pastry

Declension

Declension of noun دُمْلُوج (dumlūj)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دُمْلُوج dumlūj	الدُّمْلُوج ad-dumlūj	دُمْلُوج dumlūj
Nominative	دُمْلُوجٌ dumlūjun	الدُّمْلُوجُ ad-dumlūju	دُمْلُوجُ dumlūju
Accusative	دُمْلُوجًا dumlūjan	الدُّمْلُوجَ ad-dumlūja	دُمْلُوجَ dumlūja
Genitive	دُمْلُوجٍ dumlūjin	الدُّمْلُوجِ ad-dumlūji	دُمْلُوجِ dumlūji
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دُمْلُوجَيْن dumlūjayn	الدُّمْلُوجَيْن ad-dumlūjayn	دُمْلُوجَيْ dumlūjay
Nominative	دُمْلُوجَانِ dumlūjāni	الدُّمْلُوجَانِ ad-dumlūjāni	دُمْلُوجَا dumlūjā
Accusative	دُمْلُوجَيْنِ dumlūjayni	الدُّمْلُوجَيْنِ ad-dumlūjayni	دُمْلُوجَيْ dumlūjay
Genitive	دُمْلُوجَيْنِ dumlūjayni	الدُّمْلُوجَيْنِ ad-dumlūjayni	دُمْلُوجَيْ dumlūjay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	دَمَالِيج damālīj	الدَّمَالِيج ad-damālīj	دَمَالِيج damālīj
Nominative	دَمَالِيجُ damālīju	الدَّمَالِيجُ ad-damālīju	دَمَالِيجُ damālīju
Accusative	دَمَالِيجَ damālīja	الدَّمَالِيجَ ad-damālīja	دَمَالِيجَ damālīja
Genitive	دَمَالِيجَ damālīja	الدَّمَالِيجِ ad-damālīji	دَمَالِيجِ damālīji

Descendants

• Moroccan Arabic: دمليج (damlīj)

References

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis‎^[1] (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 3
• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 56
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “دملوج”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[2], London: Williams & Norgate, page 915
• Landberg, Carlo, editor (1928), Glossaire daṯînois‎^[3] (in French), Leiden: Brill, page 846
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎^[4] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 53
• Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[5] (in German), volume 51, page 294