ملغم

Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma, “emollient; malleable material”), related to μαλάσσω (malássō, “to soften”) and μαλακός (malakós, “soft”). The same term has been acquired via Middle Persian as مَرْهَم (marham).

Noun

مَلْغَم • (malḡam) m (plural مَلَاغِم (malāḡim))

1. softening ointment, emollient poultice
2. amalgam

Declension

Declension of noun مَلْغَم (malḡam)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَلْغَم malḡam	الْمَلْغَم al-malḡam	مَلْغَم malḡam
Nominative	مَلْغَمٌ malḡamun	الْمَلْغَمُ al-malḡamu	مَلْغَمُ malḡamu
Accusative	مَلْغَمًا malḡaman	الْمَلْغَمَ al-malḡama	مَلْغَمَ malḡama
Genitive	مَلْغَمٍ malḡamin	الْمَلْغَمِ al-malḡami	مَلْغَمِ malḡami
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَلْغَمَيْن malḡamayn	الْمَلْغَمَيْن al-malḡamayn	مَلْغَمَيْ malḡamay
Nominative	مَلْغَمَانِ malḡamāni	الْمَلْغَمَانِ al-malḡamāni	مَلْغَمَا malḡamā
Accusative	مَلْغَمَيْنِ malḡamayni	الْمَلْغَمَيْنِ al-malḡamayni	مَلْغَمَيْ malḡamay
Genitive	مَلْغَمَيْنِ malḡamayni	الْمَلْغَمَيْنِ al-malḡamayni	مَلْغَمَيْ malḡamay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	مَلَاغِم malāḡim	الْمَلَاغِم al-malāḡim	مَلَاغِم malāḡim
Nominative	مَلَاغِمُ malāḡimu	الْمَلَاغِمُ al-malāḡimu	مَلَاغِمُ malāḡimu
Accusative	مَلَاغِمَ malāḡima	الْمَلَاغِمَ al-malāḡima	مَلَاغِمَ malāḡima
Genitive	مَلَاغِمَ malāḡima	الْمَلَاغِمِ al-malāḡimi	مَلَاغِمِ malāḡimi

Derived terms

• تَلَغَّمَ (talaḡḡama, “to put ointment on”)
• أَلْغَمَ (ʔalḡama, “to amalgamate”)
• تَمَلْغَمَ (tamalḡama, “to form an amalgam”)
• لَغْمَطَ (laḡmaṭa, “to besmear”)

Descendants

• → Medieval Latin: amalgama (see there for further descendants)
• → Persian: ملغمه (malğame)
  • → Turkish: malgama / ملغمه

References

• “ملغم” in Almaany
• Freytag, Georg (1837) “ملغم”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 113
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “ملغم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen, page 1056
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ملغم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[3] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1158
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ملغم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1221