lagum

Maguindanao

Noun

lagum

  1. needle

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish لغم‎ (lağım), from Ancient Greek λᾰγών (lagṓn, “cavity”) [1]. ((Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) Arabic لغم‎) Compare obsolete or dialectal Bulgarian лагъм (lagǎm, “underground tunnel”).

Noun

lagum m (Cyrillic spelling лагум)

  1. mine
  2. underground tunnel
  3. cellar

Synonyms

References

  1. ↑ Petar Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika, Z., 1971, v. 2, p. 261: lagum
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