ز ل م

Arabic

Root

ز ل م • (z-l-m)

1. related to concinnating by levigating

Derived terms

• Form I: زَلَمَ (zalama, “to cut off a bit of, to pare off, to take the edge from, to concinnate by levigating; to fill the water-vessel”)
  • Verbal noun: زَلْم (zalm)
  • Active participle: زَالِم (zālim)
  • Passive participle: مَزْلُوم (mazlūm)
• Form II: زَلَّمَ (zallama, “to cut off a bit of, to pare off, to take the edge from, to concinnate by levigating; to fill the water-vessel”)
  • Verbal noun: تَزْلِيم (tazlīm)
  • Active participle: مُزَلِّم (muzallim)
  • Passive participle: مُزَلَّم (muzallam)
• Form VIII: اِزْدَلَمَ (izdalama, “to extirpate, to root up, to amputate”)
  • Verbal noun: اِزْدِلَام (izdilām)
  • Active participle: مُزْدَلِم (muzdalim)
  • Passive participle: مُزْدَلَم (muzdalam)
• Form IX: اِزْلَمَّ (izlamma, “to be well-shaped and agile in one’s movements”)
  • Verbal noun: اِزْلِمَام (izlimām)
  • Active participle: مُزْلَمّ (muzlamm)
• Form XI: اِزْلَامَّ (izlāmma, “to be well-shaped and agile in one’s movements”)
  • Verbal noun: اِزْلِيمَام (izlīmām)
  • Active participle: مُزْلَامّ (muzlāmm)

• زَلَم (zalam, “arrow without head and feathers; cloven hoof, or the projecting part behind it; hyrax”) (see there for further derivations)
• أَزْلَم (ʔazlam, “having an edge cut”)
• مُزْلِم (muzlim, “well-formed and agile”)
• زَلِيم (zalīm, “well-formed, of polished proportions”)

References

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 592–593
• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “ز ل م”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 600b
• Freytag, Georg (1833) “ز ل م”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 250b–251a
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “ز ل م”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 1247a–1248a
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “ز ل م”, 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^[4] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, pages 1007–1008
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ز ل م”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 442
• Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “ز ل م”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎^[5] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 529