# لازم
## Arabic
### Etymology

Derived from the active participle of لَزِمَ (lazima, “to be necessary, to be inseparable”).

### Adjective

لَازِم • (lāzim) (feminine لَازِمَة (lāzima), masculine plural لَازِمُونَ (lāzimūna), feminine plural لَازِمَات (lāzimāt) or لَوَازِم (lawāzim), elative أَلْزَم (ʔalzam))
* necessary, urgent, unavoidable
* obligatory
* closely adhering to, inseparable, inherent
* entirely addicted or devoted to
* worthy, fit
* (grammar) intransitive, neuter
    Antonym: مُتَعَدٍّ (mutaʕaddin)

#### Derived terms

* فِعْل لَازِم (fiʕl lāzim)
* مِن اللَازِم (min al-lāzim)

#### Descendants

* → Malay: lazim
** → Indonesian: lazim
* North Levantine Arabic: لازم (lāzim)
* → Ottoman Turkish: لازم
** Turkish: lazım
* → Persian: لازم (lâzem)
** → Azerbaijani: lazım
** → Kazakh: лазым (lazym), ләзім (läzım)
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: लाज़िम (lāzim)
    Urdu: لَازِم (lāzim)
** → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਲਾਜ਼ਮ (lāzam)
    Shahmukhi script: لَازِم (lāzim)
** → Uyghur: لازىم (lazim)
** → Uzbek: lozim
* → Swahili: lazima

#### References

* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “لازم”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
* Wehr, Hans (1979) “لزم”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

## North Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic لَازِم (lāzim, “necessary, urgent”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɛːzɪm], [ˈleːzɪm]

### Adverb

لازم • (lāzim)
* (false verb, followed by subjunctive verb) must; gotta
    لأ سوري، لازم تسأل حدا تانيLaʾ sōrī, lāzim tisʾal ḥadā tānī.No, sorry, you gotta ask someone else.

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

From Arabic لَازِم (lāzim).

### Adjective

لازم • (lazım)
* necessary

#### Descendants

* Turkish: lazım

### References

* Mallouf, Nassif (1856) “nécessaire”, in Dictionnaire français-turc, 2nd edition, Paris: Maisonneuve, page 503

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic لَازِم (lāzim).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [lɑː.ˈzim]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [lɑː.zɪ́m]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [lɑː.zɪ́m]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [lɑː.zɪ́m]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [lɔː.zím]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [lɒː.zém]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [lɔ.zím]

### Adjective

لازِم • (lâzem) (comparative لازِم‌تَر (lâzem-tar), superlative لازِم‌تَرین (lâzem-tarin))
* necessary
** c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume IV, verse 2626:گفت با هامان بگویم ای ستیر / شاه را لازم بود رای وزیرgoft bâ hâmân be-guyam ey satir / šâh-râ lâzem bud rây-e vazirHe [Pharaoh] said, "I will tell Hámán, O veiled [modest] one: the counsel of the vizier is necessary to the king."

#### Derived terms

* لازم داشتن (lâzem dâštan, “to need”)

#### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: lazım
* → Kazakh: лазым (lazym), ләзім (läzım)
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: लाज़िम (lāzim)
    Urdu: لَازِم (lāzim)
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਲਾਜ਼ਮ (lāzam)
    Shahmukhi script: لَازِم (lāzim)
* → Uyghur: لازىم (lazim)
* → Uzbek: lozim

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic لَازِم (lāzim, “necessary, urgent”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /laː.zim/, [ˈlæː.zɪm]
* Audio (Ramallah):(file)

### Adjective

لازم • (lāzem) (feminine لازمة (lāzme), common plural لوازم (lawāzem))
* necessary

### Adverb

لازم • (lāzem)
* (false verb, followed by subjunctive verb) must

#### See also

* اضطر (iḍṭarr, “to have to, be obligated to”)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian لَازِم (lāzim), from Arabic لَازِم (lāzim).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /lɑː.zɪm/
* Rhymes: -ɪm
* Hyphenation: لا‧زِم

### Adjective

لازِم • (lāzim) (Hindi spelling लाज़िम)
* necessary, imperative
    Synonym: واجِب (vājib)
* inevitable
* (grammar) intransitive

### Further reading

* “لازم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “لازم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “لازم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.