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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA non-Arab. · A Persian. · Persia, land of the Iranian peoples. · The name of a maqam.
Borrowed from Arabic عَجَم (ʕajam, “non-Arabs; Persians”), or via Persian عجم ('ajam). Doublet of Ayam.
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