لقمة

Arabic

Root
ل ق م (l-q-m)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /luq.ma/

Noun

لُقْمَة • (luqma) f (plural لُقَم (luqam))

1. bite
2. bit, mouthful
3. little piece, morsel

Declension

Declension of noun لُقْمَة (luqma)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	لُقْمَة luqma	اللُّقْمَة al-luqma	لُقْمَة luqmat
Nominative	لُقْمَةٌ luqmatun	اللُّقْمَةُ al-luqmatu	لُقْمَةُ luqmatu
Accusative	لُقْمَةً luqmatan	اللُّقْمَةَ al-luqmata	لُقْمَةَ luqmata
Genitive	لُقْمَةٍ luqmatin	اللُّقْمَةِ al-luqmati	لُقْمَةِ luqmati

Descendants

• Gulf Arabic: لقمة (ligma, lugma)
• Hijazi Arabic: لقمة (lugma)
• Maltese: loqma
• → Ottoman Turkish: لقمه (lokma)
  • → Greek: λουκουμάς (loukoumás)
  • → Turkish: lokma
    • → English: lokma
• → Persian: لقمه (loqme)
  • → Bengali: লোকমা (lōkma)

References

• Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “لقمة”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “لقمة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “لقمة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz

Hijazi Arabic

Root
ل ق م
3 terms

Etymology

From Arabic لُقْمَة (luqma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlu.ɡma/, [ˈlʊɡma]

Noun

لُقْمَة • (lugma) f (plural لُقْمات (lugmāt) or لُقَم (lugam))

1. bite

   Synonym: قَطْمة (gaṭma)

2. mouthful
3. little piece, morsel

See also

• جُغْمة (juḡma, “sip”)