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دام

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Arabic

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Root
د و م (d w m)
10 terms

Verb

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دَامَ (dāma) I (non-past يَدُومُ (yadūmu), verbal noun دَوْم (dawm) or دَوَام (dawām) or دَيْمُومَة (daymūma))

  1. to last, to endure
    Synonym: بَقِيَ (baqiya)
    مَا دَامَ ٱلنَّجَاحُ مُهِمًّا فَيَجِبُ أَنْ أَنْجَحَ.
    dāma n-najāḥu muhimman fayajibu ʔan ʔanjaḥa.
    As long as success is important, I have to succeed.
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 11:108:
      وَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ سُعِدُوا فَفِي الْجَنَّةِ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا مَا دَامَتِ السَّمَاوَاتُ وَالْأَرْضُ إِلَّا مَا شَاءَ رَبُّكَ ۖ عَطَاءً غَيْرَ مَجْذُوذٍ
      waʔammā llaḏīna suʕidū fafī l-jannati ḵālidīna fīhā mā dāmati as-samāwātu wālʔarḍu ʔillā mā šāʔa rabbuka ʕaṭāʔan ḡayra majḏūḏin
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • Maltese: dam, diem
  • Swahili: dumu

See also

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Adjective

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دامٍ (dāminm (animate masculine plural دَامُونَ (dāmūna), inanimate masculine plural دَوَامٍ (dawāmin), feminine plural دَامٍيَات (dāmiyāt) or دَوَامٍ (dawāmin))

  1. bleeding

Khalaj

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Noun

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دام (dâam) (definite accusative دامؽ, plural داملار)

  1. Arabic spelling of dâam (roof)

Declension

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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology 1

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From Persian دام (dâm, snare, trap).

Noun

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دام (dam)

  1. net, trap, snare, for catching game
    Synonyms: (net) آغ (), شبكه (şebeke)
  2. (figuratively) trap laid for a person
  3. the vanities of life, the lusts of the flesh
Derived terms
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  • دامكاه (damgah, place of traps and snares)
  • دامی (dami, pertaining to a trap or snare)

Etymology 2

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From Persian دام (dâm, livestock, domesticated animals).

Noun

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دام (dam)

  1. any wild animal that does not attack or prey on others

Etymology 3

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Noun

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دام (dam)

  1. Alternative spelling of طام (dam, roof)

Further reading

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  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 562
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rete”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum[2], Vienna, column 1477
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, columns 2009–2010
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 883

Persian

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Dari دام
Iranian Persian
Tajik дом

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? dām
Dari reading? dām
Iranian reading? dâm
Tajik reading? dom

Etymology 1

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From Proto-Indo-Iranian *dáHma (compare Sanskrit दामन् (dā́man, string, cord, rope, fetter)), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₁-mn̥, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₁- (to bind).

Noun

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دام (dâm)

  1. snare, trap
    به دام افتادنbe dâm oftâdanto get trapped (literally, “to fall in a trap”)
    به دام انداختنbe dâm andâxtanto trap, ensnare (literally, “to throw into a trap”)

Etymology 2

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From Middle Persian [script needed] (dʾm /⁠dām⁠/, tame animal), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (to tame, dominate). Cognates include Sanskrit दाम्यति (dāmyati), Ancient Greek δαμνάω (damnáō), and Latin domō.

Noun

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دام (dâm)

  1. livestock
  2. any domesticated animals and livestock such as sheep, cows, goats, dogs, cats, etc
    Antonym: دَد (dad, wild animals)
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References

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  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “²dām”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 24
  • Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 322

Etymology 3

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Borrowed from French dames.

Noun

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دام (dâm)

  1. draughts, checkers

References

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Urdu

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀫𑁆𑀫 (damma, coin), from Sanskrit द्रम्म (dramma), from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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دام (dāmm (Hindi spelling दाम)

  1. price, value, cost
    Synonyms: مولیہ (mūlya), قیمت (qīmat)
    دوردرشن انچے یا سستے داموں پر خریدو
    dūrdarśan ū̃ce yā saste dāmõ par xarīdẽ
    Buy TV at a high or cheap prices
Declension
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    Declension of دام
singular plural
direct دام (dām) دام (dām)
oblique دام (dām) داموں (dāmõ)
vocative دام (dām) دامو (dāmo)

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Prakrit दाम (dāma), from Sanskrit दाम (dāma, rope).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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دام (dāmm or f (Hindi spelling दाम)

  1. rope
Declension
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    Declension of دام
singular plural
direct دام (dām) دام (dām)
oblique دام (dām) داموں (dāmõ)
vocative دام (dām) دامو (dāmo)
    Declension of دام
singular plural
direct دام (dām) دامیں (dāmẽ)
oblique دام (dām) داموں (dāmõ)
vocative دام (dām) دامو (dāmo)

Etymology 3

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From Classical Persian دام (dām, trap, snare).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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دام (dām?

  1. trap; snare; net
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References

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  • دام”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “دام”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 502
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dramma”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 378
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dāˊman”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 360

Ushojo

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Etymology

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From Persian دام (dâm).

Noun

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دام (dām)

  1. a net made of thread for catching birds