# لغم
## Arabic
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek λαχαίνω (lakhaínō, “to dig, to excavate”), from Ancient Greek λαχών (lakhṓn, “to obtain, to draw, to receive”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lēk- (“string, twig, tendril”) from the pulling out of lots or herbage from the soil.

### Noun

لَغَم or لَغْم or لُغْم • (laḡam or laḡm or luḡm) m (plural أَلْغَام (ʔalḡām))
* mine, tunnel
* mine (which explodes)

#### Declension
### Verb

لَغَمَ • (laḡama) I (non-past يَلْغَمُ (yalḡamu) or يَلْغُمُ (yalḡumu), verbal noun لَغْم (laḡm))
* to mine, to fit explosive material to
* to undermine

#### Conjugation
### Verb

لَغَّمَ • (laḡḡama) II (non-past يُلَغِّمُ (yulaḡḡimu), verbal noun تَلْغِيم (talḡīm))
* to mine, to fit explosive material to

#### Conjugation
### References

* “لغم” in Almaany
* Freytag, Georg (1837) “لغم”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 113
* Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “لغم”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart‎ (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1157

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* لاغم (lağım), لاغیم (lağım)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَغْم (laḡm, “mine, tunnel”), ultimately from Ancient Greek λαχαίνω (lakhaínō, “to dig, to excavate”).

### Noun

لغم • (lağım) (definite accusative لغمی (lağımı), plural لغملر (lağımlar))
* tunnel, gallery, drift, any underground passage or channel cut through the earth or masonry
    Synonym: نفق (nafak)
* drain, sewer, cesspit, any system of pipes used to remove human waste and provide drainage
    Synonym: كریز (giriz, geriz)

#### Derived terms

* آتش لغمی (ateş lağımı, “fire mine”)
* دكز لغملری (deñiz lağımları, “torpedos”)
* طایر لغم (tayar lağımı, “flying mine”)
* قارشولق لغمی (karşılık lağımı, “countermine”)
* لغم آتمق (lağım atmak, “to blow up”)
* لغم اچمق (lağım açmak, “to dig out a mine or sewer”)
* لغم خزینه‌سی (lağım hazinesi, “chamber of a mine”)
* لغم فتیلی (lağım fitili, “mine fuse”)
* لغم قارشولامق (lağım karşılamak, “to countermine”)
* لغم قازمق (lağım kazmak, “to dig a sewer”)
* لغم قیوسی (lağım kuyusu, “sinkhole to a sewer”)
* لغم پاتلامق (lağım patlamak, “to burst”)
* لغم یولی (lağım yolu, “gallery of a mine”)
* لغمجی (lağımcı, “maker or cleanser of sewers”)
* لغملامق (lağımlamak, “to mine or undermine”)
* لغمی طاپه‌لمق (lağım tapalmak, “to tamp a mine”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: lağım
* → Albanian: llagëm
* → Armenian: լաղըմ (laġəm)
* → Bulgarian: лагъ́м (lagǎ́m)
* → Greek: λαγούμι (lagoúmi)
* → Macedonian: лагам (lagam)
* → Serbo-Croatian: lagum / лагум

### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1886) “لغم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume II, Paris: E. Leroux, page 702
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “lağım”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2926
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “لغم”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 411b
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “لغم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1079
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Cuniculus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 310
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “لغم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4183
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “lağım”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “لغم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1635