صمغ

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”).

• IPA^(key): /sˤamɣ/

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

Lua error: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • → Turkish: zamk

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

• IPA^(key): /sˤamɣ/

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

1. glue