אַרְגָּמָן m.n. purple, red purple. [Prob. a loan word from Akka. argamannu, whence also Aram.–Syr. אַרְגְּוָנָא, whence Arab. ’urjuwān. For the change of m to w in words of Akka. origin cp. מַרְחֶשֽׁוָן, כִּסְלֵו. Gk. argemone (= a kind of poppy), is prob. a loan word from Heb. אַרְגָּמָן; see ‘Argemone’ in my CEDEL. cp. אַרְגְּוָן.] Derivatives: אַרֽגְּמָנִי, אַרֽגָּמָנָית.