# مرهم
## Arabic

* Root
* ر ه م (r h m)
* 1 term

### Etymology

Probably borrowed from a Middle Persian medical foreignism taken from Ancient Greek μάλαγμα (málagma), which later during the science translation movement was borrowed directly by Arabic from Greek as مَلْغَم (malḡam).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mar.ham/

### Noun

مَرْهَم • (marham) m (plural مَرَاهِم (marāhim))
* ointment, cream, pomade
* lying, invective

#### Descendants

* → Middle Armenian: մորհամ (morham), մէրհեմ (mērhem), մէրհէմ (mērhēm), մլհամ (mlham)
* → Persian: مرهم (marham), ملهم (malham)
** → Azerbaijani: məlhəm
** → Hindustani
    Hindi: मरहम (marham), मलहम (malham)
    Urdu: مرہم (marham)
** → Middle Bengali: মলহম (molhom)
*** Bengali: মলম (molom)
** → Ottoman Turkish: مرهم (merhem), ملهم (melhem)
*** Turkish: merhem
*** → Albanian: melhem
*** → Armenian: մէհլէմ (mēhlēm), մա̈հլա̈մ (mähläm)
*** → Bulgarian: мехле́м (mehlém)
*** → Georgian: მალამო (malamo)
*** → Romanian: mehlem
*** → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: мѐлем
    Latin script: mèlem
** → Pashto: ملهم (malám)
** → Turkmen: melhem
** → Uyghur: مەلھەم (melhem)
** → Uzbek: malham
* → Swahili: marhamu

### References

* Ahmad Mukhtar Umar, Muʿjam al-Lugha al-ʿArabīya al-Muʿāṣira (d. 2003 CE) معجم اللغة العربية المعاصرة لأحمد مختار عمر
* Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 563, mistaking it as a native Middle Iranian word equalling Classical Persian بَر هَم (bar ham, “together”)
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “مرهم”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate, page 1172a

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* ملهم (melhem)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَرْهَم (marham, “ointment, pomade”).

### Noun

مرهم • (merhem) (plural مراهم (merahim))
* ointment, salve, pomade, any viscous preparation used as a treatment or as an emollient

#### Derived terms

* آق مرهم (ak merhem, “zinc ointment”)
* اویوز مرهم (uyuz merhem, “sulphur ointment”)
* جیوه مرهم (cıva merhem, “ointment of mercury”)
* سرور مرهم (surur merhem, “red precipitate ointment”)
* مرهم اولمق (merhem olmak, “to be the solution to a problem”)
* مرهم سورمك (merhem sürmek, “to apply an ointment”)
* مرهمجی (merhemci, “maker or seller of ointments”)
* مرهملو (merhemli, “dressed with ointment”)
* چوبان مرهم (çoban merhem, “ointment of mastic”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: merhem
* → Albanian: melhem
* → Armenian: մէհլէմ (mēhlēm), մա̈հլա̈մ (mähläm)
* → Bulgarian: мехле́м (mehlém)
* → Georgian: მალამო (malamo)
* → Romanian: mehlem
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: мѐлем
    Latin script: mèlem

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “merhem”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3152
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “merhem”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 742
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مرهم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1153
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Emplastrum”, 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 465
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “مرهم”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 4588
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “merhem”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مرهم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1818