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Pashto
Pronunciation
Noun
بام • (bām) m
- top of the house
- roof
- "Sandara"
ته چې په بام بندې ولاړه وې ته چا ته کتل. خلک زما په ننداره وو چې ما تا ته کتل- When you were standing on the roof, who were you looking at ? People were observing my spectacle that I was looking at you.
Declension
declension of بام
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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بام
(bām)
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بامونه
(bāmuna)
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| oblique
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بام
(bām)
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بامونو
(bāmuno)
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| vocative
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بامه
(bāma)
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بامونو
(bāmuno)
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Persian
Pronunciation
| Readings
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| Classical reading?
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bām
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| Dari reading?
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bām
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| Iranian reading?
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bâm
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| Tajik reading?
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bom
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Etymology 1
From Middle Persian (bʾn /bān/, “roof, rooftop”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to clothe, wear, put on”). Compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬢𐬵𐬀𐬥𐬀 (vaŋhana), 𐬬𐬀𐬢𐬵𐬁𐬥𐬀 (vaŋhāna, “cover”).
Alternative forms
Noun
| Dari
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بام
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| Iranian Persian
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| Tajik
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бом
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بام • (bâm)
- roof
Derived terms
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
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بام
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| Iranian Persian
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| Tajik
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бом
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بام • (bâm)
- dawn
- gleam, sheen, shimmer, tinge, hue, color
- Alternative forms: فام (fâm), پام (pâm), وام (wâm)
- سپید بام ― sepid bâm ― of a whitish colour
- گلفام ― gol-fâm ― rosy
- ستاره بام ― setâre bâm ― Lucifer; the morning star
Further reading
- Vullers, Johann August (1855) “بام”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 183a
- Vullers, Johann August (1855) “پام”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 324a
- Vullers, Johann August (1870) “بام”, in Institutiones linguae persicae cum sanscrita et zendica lingua comparatae (in Latin), Gießen: W. Keller, page 232 Nr. 42