لغم

Meaning

Noun

1. mine (which explodes)
2. (obsolete) mine, tunnel, a hollow room created under a fortification during a beleaguring in order to let it collapse; and the act of blowing up a fortification with powder from below; or the borer employed for undermining a fortress

Verb

1. to mine, to fit explosive material to
2. to undermine

Verb

to mine, to fit explosive material to

Concepts

mine

amalgamate

mining

undermine

alloy with mercury

plant mines

Synonyms

زَرَعَ أَلْغَام فِي

لَغْم

بثّ ألْغام فِي

Translations

mina

mine

mina

Mine

minare

mina terrestre

mettere mine

mijn

mina

minar

mina terrestre

minar

mina terrestre

Etymology

Diffused from Mashreqi military colloquials, presumably a borrowing from Ottoman Turkish لغم (lağım). We cannot wholly rule out, perhaps via back-formation from a plural, kinship with لَاقُومَة (lāqūme, “putty”), as both matters are fitted to the joints of a building, in which case the Ottoman Turkish term can also be borrowed from Arabic.