زمج
Arabic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /zum.mad͡ʒ/
Etymology 1
From Middle Persian *zumag, compare Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) 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))
- (obsolete) steppe eagle, Aquila nipalensis
- a. 1283, Abū Yahyā Zakariyāʾ ibn Muhammad al-Qazwīnīy, edited by Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات [ʿajāʾib al-maḵlūqāt wa-ḡarāʾib al-mawjūdāt], Göttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen Buchhandlung, published 1849, pages 415–416:
Declension
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
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”).
Declension
Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
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, 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