جزمة
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Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish چزمه (çizme, “boot”).
Pronunciation
Noun
جزمة • (gázma) f (plural جزم (gízam) or جزمات (gazmā́t))
- shoes (a pair)
- انا عملت فى حياتى كل حاجة غلط ممكن تتخيلها الا انى ادوس على جزمة بيضة بتاعة واحد صاحبى.
- ána ʿamáltⁱ fi ḥayā́ti kullⁱ ḥā́ga ḡálaṭ múmkin titḵayyálha lla nn adū́s ʿála gázma bḗḍa bitā́ʿit wā́ḥid ṣáḥbi
- I have done every wrong thing in my life you could imagine, except for stepping on a friend's white shoes.
- (vulgar) associated with uncleanliness and impurity
- دا ابن كلب عايز الضرب بستين جزمة
- da bnⁱ kalbⁱ ʿayz iḍ-ḍarbⁱ b-sittī́n gázma.
- He is a son of a bitch and needs to be beaten with sixty shoes.
- (obsolete) boots (a pair)
Synonyms
Derived terms
- جزماتى
- جزمة باتيناچ
- جزمة برباط
- جزمة سوارية
- جزمجى
Descendants
- → Greek: γκάσμα (gkásma) (Egyptiot Dialect)
References
- Spiro, Socrates (1895) “جزمة”, in An Arabic-English Vocabulary of the Colloquial Arabic of Egypt, 1st edition, Cairo: Al-Mokattam Printing Office
- Hinds, Martin, Badawi, El-Said (1986) A Dictionary of Egyptian Arabic, Beirut: Librairie du Liban
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish چزمه (çizme, “boot”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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