دام

From the root د و م‎ (d-w-m).

دَامَ • (dāma) I, non-past يَدُومُ‎‎ (yadūmu)

1. to last, to endure

   Synonym: بَقِيَ‎ (baqiya)

   • 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 allaḏīna 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 quote)

• → Swahili: dumu

• مَا دَامَ‎ (mā dāma)

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

1. bleeding

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

1. Arabic spelling of dâam (“roof”)

From Persian دام‎ (dâm, “snare, trap”).

دام • (dam)

1. net, trap, snare, for catching game

   Synonyms: (net) آغ‎ (ağ), شبكه‎ (şebeke)

2. (figuratively) trap laid for a person
3. the vanities of life, the lusts of the flesh

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

دام • (dam)

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

دام • (dam)

1. Alternative spelling of طام‎ (dam, “roof”)

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, 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, 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, Vienna, columns 2009–2010
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 883

• (Classical Persian): IPA^(key): /dɑːm/

• (Dari): IPA^(key): /dɒːm/

• (Iranian Persian): IPA^(key): /dɒːm/
• (Tajik): IPA^(key): /dɔːm/

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European [Term?], compare Ancient Greek διαδέω (diadéō, “to bind around”), whence English diadem. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

دام • (dâm)

1. snare, trap

   ‏به دام افتادن‎ ― be dâm oftâdan ― to get trapped (literally, “to fall in a trap”)

   ‏به دام انداختن‎ ― be dâm andâxtan ― to trap, ensnare (literally, “to throw into a trap”)

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to tame, dominate”). Cognates include Sanskrit दाम्यति (dāmyati), Ancient Greek δαμνάω (damnáō), and Latin domō. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

دام • (dâm)

1. livestock
2. any domesticated animals and livestock such as sheep, cows, goats, dogs, cats, etc

   Antonym: دَد‎ (dad, “wild animals”)

Borrowed from French dames.

دام • (dâm)

1. draughts, checkers

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “دام”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːm/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːm/

Inherited from Prakrit दम्म (damma, “coin”), from Sanskrit द्रम्म (dramma), from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːm/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːm/

دام • (transliteration needed) m (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

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

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːm/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːm/

دام • (transliteration needed) m (Hindi spelling दाम)

1. rope

From Classical Persian دام‎ (trap, snare).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːm/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːm/

دام • (dām) ?

1. trap; snare; net

• دامِ حُس٘ن‎ (dām-e-husn, “trap of beauty”)

• “دام”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
• 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

From Persian دام‎ (dâm).

دام (dām)

1. a net made of thread for catching birds