ダム

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English dam.[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

Noun

ダム • (damu) 

  1. a dam
    Synonym: 堰堤 (entei)
    ダムによって消(き)えた村(むら)がたくさんある。
    Damu ni yotte kieta mura ga takusan aru.
    Many villages have disappeared because of dams.
    • 1987 March 20 [Feb 20 1987], Fujiko Fujio, “ノスタル爺(じい) [Nostalgeezer]”, in カンビュセスの籤(くじ) [Cambyses’s Drawing] (藤子不二雄 ＳＦ全短編; 1), volume 1 (fiction), 2nd edition, Tokyo: Chuokoronsha, →ISBN, 第一章, page 103:
      なんもかもダムの底(そこ)じゃ　三(さん)十(じゅう)年(ねん)ぶりにおまえが帰(かえ)ってきたというのにな
      Nan mo ka mo damu no soko ja Sanjūnenburi ni omae ga kaettekita to iu no ni na
      Everything’s at the bottom of the dam now. Even though you’ve just come back after thirty years.

References
  1. 1988, 国語大辞典（新装版） (Kokugo Dai Jiten, Revised Edition) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan
  2. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  3. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN
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