دماغ

Blend of دَم‎ (dam, “blood”) +‎ مُخّ‎ (muḵḵ, “brain”), compare Arabic دَمْع‎ (damʕ, “tears”) of the same relation with عَيْن‎ (ʕayn, “eye”). While دَمْع‎ (damʕ, “tears”) traces its formation back to Proto-Semitic, the present term is only parallelled by Ethiopian Semitic, Ge'ez ድማሕ (dəmaḥ), ድማኅ (dəmaḫ), ድማህ (dəmah, “head; crown of the head; skull; summit”), Amharic ድማኅ (dəmaḫ, “top of the head”), Argobba ድማኅ (“head”), Gafat dəmʷä (“head”), Silt'e ዱም (dum), Wolane ዱሚ (dumi, “head; hair of head”), Tigre ደምቀት (dämḳät, “crown of the head”), apparently back-formed from later plurals ድማቅ (dəmaḳ), ድመቅ (dəmäḳ), with presumable Gurage borrowings Awngi ዱሚ (dūmī, “top”), Oromo dumi (“head”). While borrowing of at least a part of the terms is manifest, the preservation of guttural fricatives unassimilated in voicedness to the second radical against Arabic points to either inheritance from Proto-West Semitic or borrowing from Old South Arabian whose names of body parts use to be poorly attested.

• IPA^(key): /di.maːɣ/

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دِمَاغ • (dimāḡ) m (plural أَدْمِغَة‎ (ʔadmiḡa) or دُمُغٌ‎ (dumuḡun)) (countable)

1. (anatomy) brain (control center of the central nervous system)

   Hypernyms: مُخّ‎ (muḵḵ, “the cerebrum”), مُخَّيْخ‎ (muḵḵayḵ, “the cerebellum”)

• دِمَاغِيّ‎ (dimāḡiyy, “cerebral”)

• → Chagatai: دماغ‎
• → Crimean Tatar: dimağ
• → Middle Armenian: տիմաղ (timał)
• → Ottoman Turkish: دماغ‎ (dimağ)
  • → Turkish: dimağ (archaic)
• → Persian: دماغ‎
  • → Urdu: دماغ‎
  • → Hindi: दिमाग़ (dimāġ)

• Corriente, Federico; Pereira, Christophe; Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017) Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, page 478
• Leslau, Wolf (1991) Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 134
• Militarev, Alexander; Kogan, Leonid (2000), “*dimāγ-”, in Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volume I: Anatomy of Man and Animals, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, page 50 No. 52
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “دماغ”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

From Arabic دِمَاغ‎ (dimāḡ).

دماغ (damāğ)

1. brain

• András J. E. Bodrogligeti, A Grammar of Chagatay

دماغ • (dimāḡ) m

1. (countable) the upper front part of the body of an animal, the head

   ‏ضربت الصرصار على دماغ كسّمه!‎‎ ― I bashed the cockroach on its fucking head!

   ‏شغّلي دماغك معايا بقا!‎‎ ― Come on! Use your head, girl!

   Synonym: راس‎ (rās)

   1. (of humans) the crown of the head; the scalp

      ‏رحتله علشان يحلقلك دماغك.‎‎ ― I/you went to him to get your head shaved.

2. (uncountable) mind; intelligence; reason

   ‏عاملّي فيها راجل دماغه متفتّحه!‎‎ ― And you are/he is acting and pretending to be such an open-minded man!

   ‏دا طلع عنده دماغ فعلا.‎‎ ― It seems that he really has a head after all.

   ‏كبّر دماغك.‎‎ ― Never mind it./Ignore it./Don't worry about it. [Literally, "Enlarge/expand your head"]

   Synonym: عقل‎ (ʿaʾl)

3. (countable, uncommon) the brain

   Synonym: مخ‎ (muḵḵ)

4. (uncountable, informal) the state or feeling of being under the effect of a drug; euphoria, excitement, or stupor from narcosis; being, looking, sounding, or feeling high or stoned

   ‏دا شكله عامل دماغ.‎‎ ― He looks high.

Borrowed from Arabic دِمَاغ‎ (dimāḡ, “brain”).

دماغ • (dimağ)

1. brain, the organ which controls the central nervous system

   Synonyms: بینی‎ (beyni), مخ‎ (muh), مغز‎ (mağz)

2. encephalon the area of central nervous system enclosed within the skull
3. (by extension) mind, sense, understanding, consciousness

• Turkish: dimağ

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “dimağ”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1226
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دماغ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 581
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Cerebrum”, 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 170
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “دماغ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2135
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دماغ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 914

From Arabic دِمَاغ‎ (dimāḡ, “brain”).

دماغ • (damâğ)

1. (Iran) nose
2. (Iran) figurative senses
   1. vanity, pride
   2. strong inclination
   3. disposition, condition, mood

      Synonym: حال‎ (hâl)

3. (Dari, otherwise archaic) brain, conceit

• بینی‎ (bini)

• مغز‎ (mağz)
• ذهن‎ (zehn)

• → Urdu: دماغ‎
• → Hindi: दिमाग़ (dimāġ)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “دماغ”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “دماغ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

From Arabic دِمَاغ‎ (dimāḡ).

• IPA^(key): /dmaɣ/, [dmæːɣ]

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دماغ • (dmāḡ) f (plural أدمغة‎ (ʾadmiḡa))

1. brain

   Synonym: مخ‎ (muḵḵ)

From Arabic دِمَاغ‎ (dimāḡ).

دماغ (domâğ)

1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) nose

Borrowed from Classical Persian دماغ‎ (dimâgh, “brain, conceit”), from Arabic دِمَاغ‎ (dimāḡ, “brain”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɪ.mɑːɣ/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /d̪ɪ.mɑːɣ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːɣ

دِماغ • (dimāġ) m (Hindi spelling दिमाग़)

1. (anatomy) brain, cerebrum
2. brain (intellect), mind
3. conceit, pride

• (brain): بھیجا‎ (bhejā), مغز‎ (maġz)
• (mind): ذہن‎ (zahn)
• (pride): گھمنڈ‎ (ghamanḍ), غرور‎ (ġurūr)

• “دماغ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “دماغ”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “دماغ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.