جزمة

See also: چزمه, حرمة, چرمه, and حزمة

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چیزمه (çizme, “boot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaz.ma/, [ˈɡæzmæ]

Noun

جزمة • (gazma) f (plural جزم (gizam) or جزمات (gazmāt))

1. shoes (a pair)

   Synonyms: كوتش, حذاء, صرمة

   انا عملت فى حياتى كل حاجة غلط ممكن تتخيلها الا انى ادوس على جزمة بيضة بتاعة واحد صاحبى.

   ana ʕamalt fi ḥayāti kull ḥāga ḡalaṭ mumkin titḵayyalha illa inni adūs ʕala gazma bēḍa bitāʕit wāḥid ṣaḥbi

   I have done every wrong thing in my life you could imagine, except for stepping on a friend's white shoes.

2. (vulgar) associated with uncleanliness and impurity

   دا ابن كلب عايز الضرب بستين جزمة

   da bni kalb ʕāyiz iḍ-ḍarb b-sittīn gazma.

   He is a son of a bitch and needs to be beaten with sixty shoes.

3. (obsolete) boots (a pair)

Derived terms

• جزماتى
• جزمة باتيناچ
• جزمة برباط
• جزمة سوارية
• جزمجى

Descendants

• → Greek: γκάσμα (gkásma) (Egyptiot Dialect)

References

• Spiro, Socrates (1895) “جزمة”, in An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt, 1st edition, Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office
• Hinds, Martin, Badawi, El-Said (1986) A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic‎^[1], Beirut: Librairie du Liban

Hijazi Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چیزمه (çizme, “boot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒaz.ma/

Noun

جزمة • (jazma) f (plural جزم (jizam) or جزمات (jazmāt))

1. (a pair of) shoes

   Synonyms: (archaic) كندرة (kundara), (archaic) صرمة (ṣarma)