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Baluchi
Noun
دامن • (dáman)
- skirt
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian دامن (dâman, “skirt”).
Noun
دامن • (damen)
- skirt, the part of a dress or robe that hangs below the waist
- Synonyms: اتك (etek), ذیل (zeyl)
- outskirts, suburb, the area surrounding a city or town
- (nautical) the lower part, bunt or clew of a sail
- (calligraphy) the tail of a letter of the alphabet
Derived terms
- دامنبوسی (damenbusi, “the act of kissing another's skirt”)
- دامنی (dameni, “skirtful”)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “daman3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1091
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دامن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 563
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lacinia”, 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 902
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دامن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2010
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دامن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 884
Persian
Pronunciation
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dāman
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| Dari reading?
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dāman
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| Iranian reading?
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dâman
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| Tajik reading?
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doman
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Noun
دامن • (dâman)
- skirt
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian دامن (dāman).
Pronunciation
Noun
دامَن • (dāman) m (Hindi spelling दामन)
- (clothing) hem of a garment; skirt, petticoat
- Synonyms: آنچَل (āncal), پَلُّو (pallū)
- (geography) outskirts, edges; foothills
- (nautical) sail
Declension
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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دامَن (dāman)
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دامَن (dāman)
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| oblique
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دامَن (dāman)
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دامَنوں (dāmanō̃)
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| vocative
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دامَن (dāman)
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دامَنو (dāmanō)
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Further reading
More information
- “دامن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “دامن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “داماں”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 300
- Platts, John T. (1884) “دامن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “دامن”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “دامن”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.