زمج

See also: رمح, زمخ, and زمح

Arabic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /zum.mad͡ʒ/

Etymology 1

From Middle Persian *zumag, compare Chagatai زمج (zummaj, “steppe eagle, Aquila nipalensis”) known from the Bāburnāma and metathetical Hindi जुमिज़ (jumiz, “steppe eagle, Aquila nipalensis; eastern imperial eagle, Aquila heliaca”) and Classical Syriac ܙܘܡܐ (zūmā, zaumā) without the suffix from Middle Persian *zum. Classical Persian زمنج (zimunj, ziminj), زمچ (zimič).

Noun

زُمَّج or زُمْج or زَمَج • (zummaj or zumj or zamaj) m (plural زَمَامِج (zamāmij))

  1. (obsolete) steppe eagle, Aquila nipalensis
Declension

Etymology 2

From Middle Persian *zamag, compare Classical Persian زمه (zama, “vitriol, alum”), زنج (zunj, zanj, zinj, “resin; chin = زنخ (zanax)”). Doublet of زَاج (zāj, “vitriol”) and صَمْغ (ṣamḡ, “resin”).

Noun

زُمَّج or زَمَج or زَمْج • (zummaj or zamaj or zamj) m (obsolete)

  1. gum arabic
  2. raisins
Declension

References

  • Asbaghi, Asya (1988) Persische Lehnwörter im Arabischen‎ (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 147
  • Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “زمج”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎ (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 602b
  • Freytag, Georg (1833) “زمج”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 252a
  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “زمج”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc‎ (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 1009
  • Monchi-Zadeh, Davoud (1990) Wörter aus Xurāsān und ihre Herkunft (Acta Iranica; 29)‎ (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 204 Nr. 599, 207 Nr. 610
  • Piamenta, Moshe (1991) Dictionary of Post-Classical Yemeni Arabic, volume 1, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 204b
  • Vullers, Johann August (1856–1864) “زمج”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume 2, Bonn: Adolf Marcus, pages 141a, 142b, 147b
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