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Soqotri Lexicon
عٞاڸُم
ˁéḷom (yеˁóḷеm/ľaˁḷέm)
text examples
wa-méyki di-fte ˁóuḷom fíˀoʰ be-ˀemtérek ‘Whoever loses (in the game) will get his face smeared with soot’ (CSOL I I 17:9)
morphological notes
pass. ˁíľɛm (yеˁóuḷom/ľaˁḷóm)
root
etymology
Borrowed from Arb. ˁlm ‘to mark’ (Lane 2139). The same borrowing took place in Mhr. ˀālōm ‘to brand, to make a mark’, Jib. ˁólúm ‘to mark, to brand’, Gez. ˁallama ‘to write, to seal; to make a sign, to mark’ and elsewhere in Ethiopian Semitic.
Cf. unadapted Arabisms in the root ˁlm 2 (Arabic).