رغم

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See also: زعم

Arabic

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Root
ر غ م (r ḡ m)
4 terms

Etymology 1.1

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ra.ɣi.ma/, /ra.ɣa.ma/, /ra.ɣu.ma/

Verb

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رَغِمَ or رَغَمَ (raḡima or raḡama) I (non-past يَرْغَمُ (yarḡamu), verbal noun رَغْم (raḡm))

  1. (transitive) to force, to compel [with accusative ‘someone’ and عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘to do something’]
  2. (transitive) to humiliate, to degrade
    رَغَمَ الرَّجُلَ
    raḡama r-rajula
    he humiliated the man
  3. (intransitive) to be humiliated, to be abased
  4. (transitive, literally) to stick in the dirt, to make dirty
  5. (intransitive, literally) to become dirty (especially of one's nose)
    رَغَمَ أَنْفُهُ
    raḡama ʔanfuhu
    his nose soiled
    (literally, “his nose stuck to the sand”)
Conjugation
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Verb

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رَغُمَ (raḡuma) I (non-past يَرْغُمُ (yarḡumu), verbal noun رَغْم (raḡm) or رُغْم (ruḡm))

  1. (intransitive) to be humiliated, to be abased
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Verb

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رَغَّمَ (raḡḡama) II (non-past يُرَغِّمُ (yuraḡḡimu), verbal noun تَرْغِيم (tarḡīm)) (transitive)

  1. to humble, to humiliate
  2. to upset
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Noun

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رَغْم or رُغْم (raḡm or ruḡmm

  1. verbal noun of رَغِمَ (raḡima) (form I)
  2. forcefulness, dislike
    رَغْمًا عَن فُلَانraḡman ʕan fulānagainst one's will (literally, “to one's dislike”)
    عَلَى الرَّغْمِ مِنْ كَذَاʕalā r-raḡmi min kaḏāin spite of/despite this
Declension
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Descendants
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  • Persian: رغم (rağm)

References

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  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “رغم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN