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Ajami (other)
Ajami is the Arabic adjective applied to an Ajam, a Persian or (relative to Arabic speakers) alien. Ajami may also refer to: * Ajami Nakhchivani, a Muslim architect from Azerbaijan and founder of the Nakhchivan school of architecture * Ajami (surname) * Ajami (film), ''Ajami'' (film), a 2009 film * Ajami, Iran (other), villages in Iran * Ajami, Jaffa, a neighborhood in Israel * Ajami dialect, a dialect of Persian * Ajami script, one of the Arabic-based orthographies used for writing African languages * Ajami Turkic * Ajami Iraq See also *Ajam (other) *Agami, a district of Alexandria, Egypt {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ajami
''Ajam'' ( ar, عجم, ʿajam) is an Arabic word meaning mute, which today refers to someone whose mother tongue is not Arabic. During the Arab conquest of Persia, the term became a racial pejorative. In many languages, including Persian, Turkish, Urdu–Hindi, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Kurdish, Gujarati, Malay, Punjabi, and Swahili, ''Ajam'' and ''Ajami'' refer to Iran and Iranians respectively. Etymology According to traditional etymology, the word ''Ajam'' comes from the Semitic root ''ʿ-j-m''. Related forms of the same root include, but are not limited to: * ''mustaʿjim'': mute, incapable of speech * ''ʿajama'' / '' ʾaʿjama'' / ''ʿajjama'': to dot – in particular, to add the dots that distinguish between various Arabic letters to a text (and hence make it easier for a non-native Arabic speaker to read). It is now an obsolete term, since all modern Arabic texts are dotted. This may also be linked to ''ʿajām'' / ''ʿajam'' "pit, seed (e.g. of a date or grape)". * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
