لاجرم

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَا جَرَمَ (lā jarama).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [lɑː.d͡ʒa.ɾam]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [lɑː.d͡ʒä.ɾäm]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [lɑː.d͡ʒä.ɾäm]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [lɑː.d͡ʒä.ɾäm]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [lɔː.d͡ʒä.ɾäm]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [lɒː.d͡ʒæ.ɹæm]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [lɔ.d͡ʒä.ɾäm]

Readings
Classical reading?	lājaram
Dari reading?	lājaram
Iranian reading?	lâjaram
Tajik reading?	lojaram

Dari	لاجرم
Iranian Persian
Tajik	лоҷарам

Adverb

لاجرم • (lâjaram)

1. necessarily, of necessity
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 434:

     ما که کورانه عصاها میزنیم
     لاجرم قندیلها را بشکنیم

     mā ki kōrāna 'asā-hā mē-zanīm
     lājaram qandīl-hā rā bi-šikanīm

     We who blindly brandish staffs
     cannot help breaking lamps.

2. certainly, undoubtedly
3. therefore, consequently

References

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “لاجرم”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim