الم

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Karakhanid

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Etymology

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From Proto-Turkic *ölim (death), from *öl- (to die). Cognate with Turkish ölüm and Chuvash вилӗм (vilĕm)

Noun

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اُلُمْ (ölüm)

  1. death

Descendants

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  • Chagatai:

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Persian

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Arabic أَلَم (ʔalam).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? alam
Dari reading? alam
Iranian reading? alam
Tajik reading? alam

Noun

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الم (alam) (plural آلام (âlâm))

  1. pain
    Synonyms: درد (dard), رنج (ranj)
  2. grief
    Synonym: غم (ğam)

Etymology 2

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Noun

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الم (alom)

  1. (archaic or dialectal) millet; green foxtail millet, wild foxtail millet (Setaria viridis)

Urdu

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Sanskrit अलम् (álam).

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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الم (alam) (Hindi spelling अलम्) (rare)

  1. enough, sufficient, adequate, equal to

References

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  • Platts, John T. (1884) “الم”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.