Arabic edit

Root
ع ج م (ʕ-j-m)

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

أَعْجَمَ (ʔaʕjama) IV, non-past يُعْجِمُ‎ (yuʕjimu)

  1. to speak or write unclearly or unintelligibly, to mumble, to lisp (sense 2)
  2. to cause to be incorrect, unclear or barbarous
  3. to point letters or a text
  4. to shut or lock (the door)
  5. to boil strongly

Conjugation edit

Adjective edit

أَعْجَم (ʔaʕjam) (feminine عَجْمَاء (ʕajmāʔ), common plural عُجْم (ʕujm), masculine plural أعْجَمُونَ, feminine plural عَجْمَاوَات (ʕajmāwāt))

  1. having an impotence in speech
  2. non-Arabic
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 26:198-199:
      وَلَوْ نَزَّلْنَاهُ عَلَى بَعْضِ ٱلْأَعْجَمِينَ / فَقَرَأَهُ عَلَيْهِم مَا كَانُوا بِهِ مُؤْمِنِينَ
      walaw nazzalnāhu ʕalā baʕḍi l-ʔaʕjamīna / faqaraʔahu ʕalayhim mā kānū bihi muʔminīna
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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