alam

1. َلِ-

m

2. älu-

common mountain ebony

3. َل

al cl. 1. P. alati, to adorn, L. ; to be competent or able, L. ; to prevent, L. [The root is evidently invented for the derivation of alam, q.v. ]

4. َلَم

alam ind. (later form of aram, q.v. ), enough, sufficient, adequate, equal to, competent, able. (alam may govern a dat. [jīvitavai ( Ved. Inf. dat. ) alam, AV. vi, 109, 1 , or alaṃjīvanāya, Mn. xi, 76 , &c., sufficient for living] or Inf. [ Pāṇ. ii, 4, 66 ; alaṃvijñātum ‘able to conceive’, Nir.

5. alaṃ

alaṃ (in comp. for alam).