دم

Arabic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dam.ma/

Verb

دَمَّ (damma) I, non-past يَدُمُّ‎ (yadummu)

  1. to coat, to smear
  2. to paint, to daub, to dye, to tint
Conjugation

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /damm/

Noun

دَمّ (damm) m

  1. verbal noun of دَمَّ (damma) (form I)
  2. ointment, salve, unguent, liniment
  3. paint
  4. pigment, dye
Declension

Etymology 3

From Proto-Semitic *dam-, from Proto-Afroasiatic *dam-. Cognate with Hebrew דם.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dam/

Noun

دَم (dam) m (dual دَمَانِ (damāni) or دَمَيَان (damayān) or دَمَوَانِ (damawāni), plural دِمَاء (dimāʔ))

  1. (uncountable) blood
Declension
Descendants
  • Maltese: demm
  • Moroccan Arabic: دم (damm)
  • Indonesian: dam (punishment)
  • Swahili: damu

Etymology 4

Suggested by Hommel as inherited from a Proto-Semitic *dimm- (wild cat), but presumably borrowed from Ge'ez ድመት (dəmmat), because this is a Lockwort rare in literary Arabic and appears in the dialects only in northwest Yemen, whereas it overspreads all Ethiopian Semitic as the word for the cat; the compared Akkadian 𒁺𒈠𒈬 (du-ma-mu /dumāmu, tumāmu/, leopard) is considered probably a foreign borrowing.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dimm/

Noun

دِمّ (dimm) m (plural دِمَم (dimam), feminine دِمّة (dimma)) (now only Yemen)

  1. cat; wild cat
Declension

References

  • Behnstedt, Peter; Woidich, Manfred (2005) Arabische Dialektgeographie. Eine Einführung (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 78) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 200
  • Behnstedt, Peter; Woidich, Manfred (2010) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band I: Mensch, Natur, Fauna und Flora (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 326–329
  • Hommel, Fritz (1879) Die Namen der Säugethiere bei den südsemitischen Völkern als Beiträge zur arabischen und äthiopischen Lexicographie, zur semitischen Kulturforschung und Sprachvergleichung und zur Geschichte der Mittelmeerfauna. Mit steter Berücksichtigung auch der assyrischen und hebräischen Thiernamen und geographischen und literaturgeschichtlichen Excursen (in German), Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, pages 318–319
  • Landsberger, Benno (1931), “Lexikalisches Archiv”, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete (in German), volume 40, page 296 / Nr. 2
  • Landsberger, Benno (1934) Die Fauna des alten Mesopotamien nach der 14. Tafel der Serie ḪAR-RA = ḫubullu (Abhandlungen der philologisch-historischen Klasse der sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; XLII. Nr. VI) (in German), Leipzig: Salomon Hirzel, pages 83–84
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 58
  • Soden, Wolfram von (1933), “Der hymnisch-epische Dialekt des Akkadischen”, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete (in German), volume 41, page 168 / Fn. 4

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dum/

Verb

دُمْ (dum) (form I)

  1. second-person masculine singular imperative active of دَامَ (dāma)
  2. second-person masculine singular active imperative of دَامَ (dāma)

Laki

Noun

دم (dim)

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Malay

Noun

دم (plural دم-دم or دم۲, informal 1st possessive دمکو, 2nd possessive دممو, 3rd possessive دمڽ)

  1. Jawi spelling of dam

Moroccan Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic دَم (dam).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /damː/
  • (file)

Noun

دم (damm) m (plural دمايات (dmāyāt))

  1. blood

Persian

Etymology 1

Spoken form of دنب (donb); see there for etymology.

Pronunciation

    • (Dari): IPA(key): /dʊm/

    Noun

    Dari دم
    Iranian Persian
    Tajik дум (dum)

    دم (dom)

    1. tail
    Derived terms
    • کژدم (každom)
    • بی‌دم (bi-dom)
    • دمی (domi)
    • دم اسبی (dom-e asbi)
    Descendants
    • Azerbaijani: düm
    • Lezgi: ттум (t̄um)

    Etymology 2

    Middle Persian [script needed] (dam).

    Pronunciation

      • (Dari): IPA(key): /dam/

      Noun

      Dari دم
      Iranian Persian
      Tajik дам (dam)

      دم (dam)

      1. breath
      2. steam
      3. moment
      Descendants
      • Armenian: դամ (dam)
      • Bengali: দম (dom)
      • Azerbaijani: dəm
      • Kazakh: дем (dem)
      • Ottoman Turkish: دم (dem)
      • Hindi: दम (dam)
      • Urdu: دم (dam)

      Etymology 3

      Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos.

      Noun

      دم (dam)

      1. edge
      2. blade

      Etymology 4

      From Arabic دَم (dam).

      Pronunciation

        • (Dari): IPA(key): /dam/

        Noun

        دم (dam)

        1. (obsolete) blood
          Synonym: خون (xun)

        South Levantine Arabic

        Etymology

        From Arabic دَم (dam).

        Pronunciation

        • IPA(key): /damm/, [dam]
        • (file)

        Noun

        دمّ (damm) m

        1. blood

        Derived terms

        Urdu

        Etymology 1

        Borrowed from Sanskrit दम (dama).

        Pronunciation

        Noun

        دم (dam) m (Hindi spelling दम)

        1. taming
        2. self-restraint
        3. self-control
        4. temperance

        Etymology 2

        Borrowed from Persian دم (dam).

        Pronunciation

        Noun

        دم (dam) m (Hindi spelling दम)

        1. breath
        2. puff
        3. whiff
        4. life, vitality
        5. energy, vigour
        6. moment, instant
        7. draught
        8. elasticity
        9. strength
        10. ambition
        11. pleasure

        Etymology 3

        Borrowed from Persian, from Sanskrit दम्भ (dambha).

        Pronunciation

        Noun

        دم (dam) m (Hindi spelling दम)

        1. deceit
        2. fraud
        3. trickery
        4. trick
        5. coaxing
        6. arrogance
        7. pride
        8. boasting

        Etymology 4

        From Arabic دَم (dam).

        Pronunciation

        Noun

        دم (dam) m (Hindi spelling दम)

        1. blood

        Etymology 5

        Borrowed from Persian دم (dom).

        Pronunciation

        Noun

        دم (dum) f (Hindi spelling दुम)

        1. tail
        2. end
        3. extremity
        4. follower
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