damai

See also: dāmài and dàmài

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da.me/
• Homophones: damé, damée, damées, damer, damés, damez

Verb

damai

1. first-person singular past historic of damer

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay damai, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *damay, from Proto-Austronesian *damay (“peace, empathy, harmony”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [daˈmai̯]
• Hyphenation: da‧mai

Adjective

damai

1. peaceful

Affixed terms

• berdamai
• berdamaikan
• didamaikan
• diperdamaikan
• keberdamaian
• kedamaian
• keterdamaian
• memperdamai
• memperdamaikan
• mendamai
• mendamaikan
• pemerdamai
• pemerdamaian
• pendamai
• pendamaian
• perdamaian
• terdamai
• terdamaikan

 

Further reading

• “damai” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Verb

damai

1. first-person singular past historic of damare

Anagrams

• madia

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [damaj]

Noun

damai (possessed damaichü)

1. a vine used in barbasco fishing, possibly Swartzia macrophylla

References

• Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012) Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 34
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “damai”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 288
• Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “damai”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[1], Museu do Índio/FUNAI