صمغ

Arabic

صَمْغ

Etymology

Root
ص م غ (ṣ-m-ḡ)

Uncertain. Maybe a variant of سَمْع (samʕ, “ear”), compare شَمْع (šamʕ, “wax”), otherwise سَمُر (samur, “acacia”). A chain of comparisons also allows to assume Iranian borrowing: سَمْعَج (samʕaj, “thick sweet milk”), زَمَج (zamaj, “gum arabic; raisins”), زَاج (zāj, “vitriol”), Classical Persian زمه (zama, “vitriol, alum”), زنج (zunj, zanj, zinj, “resin; chin”), زنخ (zanax, “chin”), زاگ (zāg, “vitriol, alum”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˤamɣ/

Noun

صَمْغ • (ṣamḡ) m (plural صُمُوغ (ṣumūḡ) or أَصْمَاغ (ʔaṣmāḡ))

  1. resin
    • 1025, ابن سينا (Avicenna), القانون في الطب‎, Rome: Stamperia Orientale Medicea, published 1593, Liber 2, page 174:
      قال ديسقوريدوس في كتابه ان الحلتيث صمغ الانجدان و ذكر بان يشرط اصله وساقه ثم بعد الشرط يسيل منه الحلتيث […]
      Dioscurides said in his book that hing is the resin of the Ferula assa-foetida and he notified that its stem and its foot is slit and then, after the slitting, the hing flows from it. […]
  2. glue

Declension

Descendants

  • → Persian: صمغ (samğ)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: صمغ (samğ, zamk)
    • → Turkish: zamk

Hijazi Arabic

Root
ص م غ
1 term
صَمْغ

Etymology

From Arabic صَمْغ (ṣamḡ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sˤamɣ/

Noun

صَمْغ • (ṣamḡ) m (plural صُمُوغ (ṣumūḡ))

  1. glue
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