Arabic edit

Root
ع ج م (ʕ-j-m)

Pronunciation 1 edit

Adjective edit

أَعْجَمِيّ (ʔaʕjamiyy) (masculine plural أَعْجَمِيُّونَ (ʔaʕjamiyyūna) or أَعَاجِم (ʔaʕājim), feminine plural أَعْجَمِيَّات (ʔaʕjamiyyāt) or أَعَاجِم (ʔaʕājim))

  1. non-Arab, non-Arabic
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 41:44:
      وَلَوْ جَعَلْنَاهُ قُرْآنًا أَعْجَمِيًّا لَّقَالُوا لَوْلَا فُصِّلَتْ آيَاتُهُ أَأَعْجَمِيٌّ وَعَرَبِيٌّ
      wa-law jaʕalnāhu qurʔānan ʔaʕjamiyyan llaqālū lawlā fuṣṣilat ʔāyātuhu ʔa-ʔaʕjamiyyun wa-ʕarabiyyun
      And if We had made it a non-Arabic Qur'an, they would have said, "Why are its verses not explained in detail [in our language]? Is it a foreign [recitation] and an Arab [messenger]?"
Declension edit

Pronunciation 2 edit

Verb edit

أَعْجِمِي (ʔaʕjimī) (form IV)

  1. second-person feminine singular active imperative of أَعْجَمَ (ʔaʕjama)