دم

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Verb

دَمَّ (damma) I (non-past يَدُمُّ (yadummu), verbal noun دَمّ (damm))

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

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

Noun

دَمّ (dammm

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

Etymology 3

    Inherited from Proto-Semitic *dam-, from Proto-Afroasiatic *dam-.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

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

    1. (uncountable) blood
    Declension
    Descendants
    • Hijazi Arabic: دَمّ (damm)
    • 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

    Noun

    دِمّ (dimmm (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, pages 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.

    Verb

    دُمْ (dum) (form I) /dum/

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

    Hijazi Arabic

    Etymology

    From Arabic دَم (dam).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    دَمّ (dammm (dual دَمّين (dammēn), plural دُمَّان (dummān))

    1. blood

    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): /damm/
    • Audio:(file)

    Noun

    دم (dammm (plural دمايات (dmāyāt))

    1. blood
      غلى فيه الدم.
      ḡlā fīh ed-damm.
      He got very angry.
      (literally, “The blood boiled inside of him.”)
      كان كله دمايات.kān kullu dmāyāt.He was covered in blood.

    Persian

    Etymology 1

    From earlier دُنْب (dunb), see there for more.

    Pronunciation

    Readings
    Classical reading? dum
    Dari reading? dum
    Iranian reading? dom
    Tajik reading? dum

    Noun

    Dari دم
    Iranian Persian
    Tajik дум

    دم (dom)

    1. tail
    Derived terms
    Descendants

    Etymology 2

    From Middle Persian (dam), from Proto-Iranian *damH (to blow, breathe; to swell), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰemH- (to blow);[1][2] compare Sanskrit धमति (dhámati, to blow), Lithuanian dùmti (to blow), Polish dąć (to blow), English damp.

    Pronunciation

    Readings
    Classical reading? dam
    Dari reading? dam
    Iranian reading? dam
    Tajik reading? dam

    Noun

    Dari دم
    Iranian Persian
    Tajik дам

    دم (dam)

    1. breath
      • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی, volume I, verse 3126:
        چون که من من نیستم این دم ز هوست / پیش این دم هر که دم زد کافر اوست
        čôn ki man man nîstam ên dam za hû-st / pêš-i-ên dam har ki dam zad kâfir û-st
        Since I am not I, this breath (of mine) is from Him: in the presence of this breath if any one breathes (a word) he is an infidel.”
    2. steam
    3. moment
    Descendants

    Etymology 3

    Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos.

    Pronunciation

    Readings
    Classical reading? dam
    Dari reading? dam
    Iranian reading? dam
    Tajik reading? dam

    Noun

    دم (dam)

    1. edge
    2. blade

    Etymology 4

      Borrowed from Arabic دَم (dam).

      Pronunciation

      Readings
      Classical reading? dam
      Dari reading? dam
      Iranian reading? dam
      Tajik reading? dam

      Noun

      دم (dam)

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

      References

      1. ^ Cheung, Johnny (2007) Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 2), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 55-56
      2. ^ Nourai, Ali (2011) An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 97

      South Levantine Arabic

      Etymology

      From Arabic دَم (dam).

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      دمّ (dammm

      1. blood

      Derived terms

      Urdu

      Etymology 1

      Borrowed from Sanskrit दम (dama).

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      دم (damm (Hindi spelling दम)

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

      Etymology 2

      Borrowed from Classical Persian دم (dam).

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      دم (damm (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

      From Sanskrit दम्भ (dambha). Cognate with Persian دم (dam).

      Pronunciation

      Noun

      دم (damm (Hindi spelling दम)

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

      Etymology 4

        Borrowed from Classical Persian دَم (dam), from Arabic دَم (dam).

        Pronunciation

        Noun

        دم (damm (Hindi spelling दम)

        1. blood

        Etymology 5

        Borrowed from Classical Persian دم (dum).

        Pronunciation

        Noun

        دم (dumf (Hindi spelling दुम)

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