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Soqotri Lexicon
عَلْم
ˁaľm
basic morphological information
text examples
éṭḥef gáḥi óˀoz ˁaf ʕamḳ di-ḥalf kádaḥ ˁes ˁaf bóˀor mes ṭáľfe wa-ˀal-ˁérobk di-mhɔn wa-ˁéyyek leṣtát mes ˁalm éntaˁk tos id bɛr kor éṣtet mes ˁalm ‘The wadi swept a goat and midway along threw dirt upon it so that only one of its legs were visible, and I could not recognize whose it was, and I dragged it to the open place to look at its mark.’ (Bulakh et al. 2021 258)
other notes
Borrowed from Arabic.
root
derivates
- mеˁáľľеm or maˁáľľam or mеˁáľľam 1. learned man, imam; 2. professional builder
- meˁálimaʰ musicians and reciters of poetry accompanied by drum beating (awáwa) who are invited to feasts
- mеtaˁáľľеm learned man
- taˁľím instruction
- ˁáľľamat she instructed
- еtˁáľľam I will learn
- áḷḷaʰ áˁľam God knows better
- ˁaľámeʰ sign
- ˁaľamát marks, grades
- ˁiľm knowledge
- meˁáľľem teacher