مرهم

Meaning

  1. ointment, cream, pomade
  2. lying, invective

Synonyms

Frequency

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Pronounced as (IPA)
/mar.ham/
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).

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