دوام

From the root د و م‎ (d-w-m).

دَوَام • (dawām) m

1. verbal noun of دَامَ‎ (dāma) (form I)
2. duration
3. endurance

• Gulf Arabic: دوام‎ (dawām)
• → Bashkir: дауам (dawam)
• → Tatar: дәвам (däwam)
• → Persian: دوام‎
  • → Azerbaijani: davam
  • → Ottoman Turkish: دوام‎
    • Turkish: devam

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “دوام”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

From Arabic دَوَام‎ (dawām).

• (Kuwaiti Gulf Arabic) IPA^(key): /dəˈwɑːm/

دوام • (dawām) m

1. work, occupation, or, less often, school.

   ‏وين دوامچ؟‎‎

   wēn dawāmič?

   Where do you work?

2. (archaic) permanent existence; immortality through time

   ‏الدوام لله‎

   ad-dawām lillāh

   permanent existence is (only) for God

Borrowed from Arabic دَوَام‎ (dawām).

دَوام • (davâm)

1. durability; durableness

   ‏خانه با دوام‎ ― xâne bâ davâm ― durable house

2. enduring; persisting; immortality through time
   • c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 11”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Hafez]‎:

     ‏هرگز نمیرد آن که دلش زنده شد به عشق
     ثبت است بر جریدهٔ عالم دوام ما‎

     hargiz na-mîrad ân ki dil-aš zinda šud ba išq
     sabt ast bar jarîda-yi âlam dawâm-i mâ

     He whose heart lives in love shall never die;
     On the world’s account-book, our immortality is registered.

     (romanization in Classical Persian)

From Arabic دَوَام‎ (dawām).

• IPA^(key): /da.waːm/, [daˈwæːm], [daˈwaːm]

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دوام • (dawām) m

1. workday, work hours, office hours