dam

See also Dam, dám, đảm, and da̰m

Translingual

Wikipedia

Symbol

dam

1. (metrology) Symbol for the decameter (decametre), an SI unit of length equal to 10¹meters (metres).

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English

Wikipedia

A dam

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /dæm/, X-SAMPA: /d{m/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -æm
• Homophone: damn

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch, Middle Low German dam, from Proto-Germanic *dammaz.

Noun

dam (plural dams)

1. Structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow.
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, Lord Stranleigh Abroad^[1]:

     Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins … .

2. (dentistry) A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band.
3. (South Africa) A reservoir.

Translations

structure placed across a flowing body of water

• Arabic: سد (ar) (sadd) m
• Armenian: ամբարտակ (hy) (ambartak) 
• Bengali: বাঁধ (bn)
• Bulgarian: бент (bg) m (bent)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 壩 (cmn), 坝 (cmn) (bà)

• Czech: hráz (cs) f, přehrada (cs) f
• Dutch: dam (nl) m
• Estonian: pais (et)
• Finnish: pato (fi)
• French: barrage (fr) m
• Georgian: კაშხალი (ka) (kašxali) , ჯებირი (ka) (ǰebiri) , დამბა (ka) (damba) 
• German: Damm (de) m
• Greek: φράγμα (el) (frágma) n 
• Hebrew: סכר (he) m
• Hungarian: gát (hu)
• Ido: aquobarilo (io)

• Italian: argine (it) m, diga (it)
• Japanese: ダム (ja) (damu)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: به‌ربه‌ست (ku)

• Malay: empang (ms), empangan (ms), pengempang (ms), ampang (ms), bendung (ms), bendungan (ms), pembendung (ms), tebat (ms), tambak (ms), tandup (ms), alahan (ms)
• Maltese: diga (mt)
• Navajo: dáʼdeestłʼin, tó beʼekʼid
• Polish: tama (pl) f
• Portuguese: barragem (pt) f, represa (pt) f
• Romanian: baraj (ro) n
• Russian: плотина (ru) (plotína) f , дамба (ru) (dámba) f 
• Serbo-Croatian: nasip (sh), brana (sh), gat (sh)
• Spanish: presa (es) f
• Tamil: அணை (ta)
• Telugu: ఆనకట్ట (te)
• Turkish: baraj (tr), set (tr)

Verb

dam (third-person singular simple present dams, present participle damming, simple past and past participle dammed)

1. To block the flow of water.

Translations

block

• Bulgarian: заприщвам (bg) (zaprištvam)
• Finnish: padota (fi)
• German: stauen (de), abdämmen (de), absperren (de)

• Italian: imbrigliare (it)
• Spanish: embalsar (es)

See also

• Dam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Variant of dame.

Noun

dam (plural dams)

1. Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals (correlative to sire).
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12:

     Hunters assure us, that to chuse the best dog, and which they purpose to keepe from out a litter of other young whelps, there is no better meane than the damme herselfe [...].

   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:

     she / Resolved that Juan should be quite a paragon, / And worthy of the noblest pedigree / (His sire was from Castile, his dam from Aragon) [...].

   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 112:

     The sky was cloudless – the moon rolled across the surface like a lamb searching for its dam.

Translations

female parent

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 母畜 (cmn), 母兽 (cmn)

• Finnish: emä (fi)
• German: Muttertier (de)

• Japanese: メス (ja) (mesu), (for Bovidae) 牝 (ja) (めす, mesu), (for except of Bovidae) 雌 (ja) (めす, mesu)
• Latin: mātrix (la) f
• Malay: induk betina (ms)

Anagrams

• adm. AMD, DMA, mad, MAD

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Crimean Tatar

Noun

dam

1. stable
2. roof
3. taste

Declension

    declension of dam

nominative	dam
genitive	damnıñ
dative	damğa
accusative	damnı
locative	damda
ablative	damdan

Synonyms

• aran (stable)
• lezet, nezet, tat, dad (taste)

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Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dammr (“dam”).

Noun

dam c (singular definite dammen, plural indefinite damme)

1. pond

Derived terms

• dambrug n

Inflection

    Inflection of dam

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	dam	dammen	damme	dammene
genitive	dams	dammens	dammes	dammenes

Etymology 2

From French jeu de dames (“draughts”).

Noun

dam c and n

1. draughts, checkers

Etymology 3

From French dame (“king”).

Noun

dam c (singular definite dammen, plural indefinite dammer)

1. king (superior piece in draughts)

Inflection

    Inflection of dam

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	dam	dammen	dammer	dammerne
genitive	dams	dammens	dammers	dammernes

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑm

Noun

dam m (plural dammen, diminutive dammetje)

1. dam

Derived terms

• stuwdam
• Amsterdam
• Rotterdam

Verb

dam

1. first-person singular present indicative of dammen
2. imperative of dammen

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French

Noun

dam m (plural dams)

1. (obsolete except in phrases) damage

Derived terms

• au grand dam de

Anagrams

• AMD

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Lojban

Rafsi

dam

1. rafsi of danmo.

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Maltese

Verb

dam

1. dally, stall

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Norwegian

Etymology

From Old Norse damm n, Middle Norwegian dammr m. The meaning dam (structure) probably comes from Middle Low German.

Noun

dam m

1. pond
2. the game of checkers
3. dam (structure)

Inflection

    Inflection of dam

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	dam	dammen	dammer	dammene
Nynorsk m	dam	dammen	dammar	dammane

References

• “dam” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [d̪ãm]

Verb

dam

1. first-person singular present of dać

Noun

dam

1. Genitive plural of dama

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Rohingya

Etymology

From Bengali.

Noun

dam

1. price

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /dɑːm/
• X-SAMPA: /dA:m/

Noun

dam c

1. a lady, a woman
2. (card games) a queen

   Ruter dam

   Queen of diamonds

3. (chess) a queen

Declension

Declension of dam

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	dam	damen	damer	damerna
genitive	dams	damens	damers	damernas

Related terms

damallsvenskan damavdelning dambadhus dambandy dambastu dambekantskap dambesök dambinda

dambjudning dambonde dambricka dambräde dambyxor damcykel damdubbel damfinal

damfotboll damfrisering damfrisör damfrisörska damgambit damgolf damhandboll damhatt

damidrott damig damighet damkappa damklass damkläder damknäppning damkonfektion

damkör damlag damlandslag dammiddag damorkester damrum damsadel damsenior

damsida damsingel damskidåkning damsko damspel damstafett damstrumpa damsällskap

damtidning damtoalett damtävling damunderkläder damväska hovdam

Synonyms

• (in chess): drottning

References

• dam in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

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Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic tam, from Proto-Turkic *tām.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɑm/

Noun

dam

1. roof