Wiktionary

دام

Arabic edit

Root
د و م (d-w-m)

Verb edit

دَامَ • (dāma) I, non-past يَدُومُ‎ (yadūmu)

  1. to last, to endure
    Synonym: بَقِيَ (baqiya)
    مَا دَامَ ٱلنَّجَاحُ مُهِمًّا فَيَجِبُ أَنْ أَنْجَحَ.
    mā dāma n-najāḥu muhimman fayajibu ʔan ʔanjaḥa.
    As long as success is important, I have to succeed.
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 11:108:
      وَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ سُعِدُوا فَفِي الْجَنَّةِ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا مَا دَامَتِ السَّمَاوَاتُ وَالْأَرْضُ إِلَّا مَا شَاءَ رَبُّكَ ۖ عَطَاءً غَيْرَ مَجْذُوذٍ
      waʔammā allaḏīna suʕidū fafī l-jannati ḵālidīna fīhā mā dāmati as-samāwātu wālʔarḍu ʔillā mā šāʔa rabbuka ʕaṭāʔan ḡayra majḏūḏin
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of
دَامَ
(form-I hollow, verbal nouns دَوْم or دَوَام or دَيْمُومَة)
verbal nouns
الْمَصَادِر
dawm or dawām or daymūma
active participle
اِسْم الْفَاعِل
dāʔim
passive participle
اِسْم الْمَفْعُول
madūm
active voice
الْفِعْل الْمَعْلُوم
singular
الْمُفْرَد 		dual
الْمُثَنَّى 		plural
الْجَمْع
1st person
الْمُتَكَلِّم 		2nd person
الْمُخَاطَب 		3rd person
الْغَائِب 		2nd person
الْمُخَاطَب 		3rd person
الْغَائِب 		1st person
الْمُتَكَلِّم 		2nd person
الْمُخَاطَب 		3rd person
الْغَائِب
past (perfect) indicative
الْمَاضِي 		m
dumtu
dumta
دَامَ

dāma
dumtumā
dāmā
dumnā
dumtum
dāmū
f
dumti
dāmat
dāmatā
dumtunna
dumna
non-past (imperfect) indicative
الْمُضَارِع الْمَرْفُوع 		m
ʔadūmu
tadūmu
yadūmu
tadūmāni
yadūmāni
nadūmu
tadūmūna
yadūmūna
f
tadūmīna
tadūmu
tadūmāni
tadumna
yadumna
subjunctive
الْمُضَارِع الْمَنْصُوب 		m
ʔadūma
tadūma
yadūma
tadūmā
yadūmā
nadūma
tadūmū
yadūmū
f
tadūmī
tadūma
tadūmā
tadumna
yadumna
jussive
الْمُضَارِع الْمَجْزُوم 		m
ʔadum
tadum
yadum
tadūmā
yadūmā
nadum
tadūmū
yadūmū
f
tadūmī
tadum
tadūmā
tadumna
yadumna
imperative
الْأَمْر 		m
dum
dūmā
dūmū
f
dūmī
dumna
passive voice
الْفِعْل الْمَجْهُول
singular
الْمُفْرَد 		dual
الْمُثَنَّى 		plural
الْجَمْع
1st person
الْمُتَكَلِّم 		2nd person
الْمُخَاطَب 		3rd person
الْغَائِب 		2nd person
الْمُخَاطَب 		3rd person
الْغَائِب 		1st person
الْمُتَكَلِّم 		2nd person
الْمُخَاطَب 		3rd person
الْغَائِب
past (perfect) indicative
الْمَاضِي 		m — —
dīma 		— — — — —
f — — — — —
non-past (imperfect) indicative
الْمُضَارِع الْمَرْفُوع 		m — —
yudāmu 		— — — — —
f — — — — —
subjunctive
الْمُضَارِع الْمَنْصُوب 		m — —
yudāma 		— — — — —
f — — — — —
jussive
الْمُضَارِع الْمَجْزُوم 		m — —
yudam 		— — — — —
f — — — — —

Descendants edit

  • → Swahili: dumu

See also edit

Adjective edit

دامٍ • (dāmin) m (animate masculine plural دَامُونَ (dāmūna), inanimate masculine plural دَوَامٍ (dawāmin), feminine plural دَامٍيَات (dāmiyāt) or دَوَامٍ (dawāmin))

  1. bleeding

Khalaj edit

Noun edit

دام (dâam) (definite accusative دامؽ, plural داملار)

  1. Arabic spelling of dâam (“roof”)

Declension edit

Declension of دام
singular plural
nominative دام داملار
genitive دامؽݧ داملارؽݧ
dative دامقا داملارقا
definite accusative دامؽ داملارؽ
locative دامچا داملارچا
ablative دامدا داملاردا
instrumental داملا داملارلا
equative داموارا داملاروارا

Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Persian دام (dâm, “snare, trap”).

Noun edit

دام • (dam)

  1. net, trap, snare, for catching game
    Synonyms: (net) آغ (ağ), شبكه (şebeke)
  2. (figuratively) trap laid for a person
  3. the vanities of life, the lusts of the flesh
Derived terms edit
  • دامكاه (damgah, “place of traps and snares”)
  • دامی (dami, “pertaining to a trap or snare”)

Etymology 2 edit

From Persian دام (dâm, “livestock, domesticated animals”).

Noun edit

دام • (dam)

  1. any wild animal that does not attack or prey on others

Etymology 3 edit

Noun edit

دام • (dam)

  1. Alternative spelling of طام (dam, “roof”)

Further reading edit

  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 562
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rete”, 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[2], Vienna, column 1477
  • Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎[3], Vienna, columns 2009–2010
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 883

Persian edit

Dari دام
Iranian Persian
Tajik дом

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? dām
Dari reading? dām
Iranian reading? dâm
Tajik reading? dom

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *dáHma (compare Sanskrit दामन् (dā́man, “string, cord, rope, fetter”)), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₁-mn̥, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₁- (“to bind”).

Noun edit

دام • (dâm)

  1. snare, trap
    به دام افتادن ― be dâm oftâdan ― to get trapped (literally, “to fall in a trap”)
    به دام انداختن ― be dâm andâxtan ― to trap, ensnare (literally, “to throw into a trap”)

Etymology 2 edit

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to tame, dominate”). Cognates include Sanskrit दाम्यति (dāmyati), Ancient Greek δαμνάω (damnáō), and Latin domō. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun edit

دام • (dâm)

  1. livestock
  2. any domesticated animals and livestock such as sheep, cows, goats, dogs, cats, etc
    Antonym: دَد (dad, “wild animals”)

Etymology 3 edit

Borrowed from French dames.

Noun edit

دام • (dâm)

  1. draughts, checkers

References edit

Urdu edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀫𑁆𑀫 (damma, “coin”), from Sanskrit द्रम्म (dramma), from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

دام • (dām) m (Hindi spelling दाम)

  1. price, value, cost
    Synonyms: مولیہ (mūlya), قیمت (qīmat)
    دوردرشن انچے یا سستے داموں پر خریدو
    dūrdarśan ū̃ce yā saste dāmõ par xarīdẽ
    Buy TV at a high or cheap prices
Declension edit
Declension of دام
singular plural
direct دام (dām) دام (dām)
oblique دام (dām) داموں (dāmō̃)
vocative دام (dām) دامو (dāmō)

Etymology 2 edit

Inherited from Prakrit दाम (dāma), from Sanskrit दाम (dāma, “rope”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

دام • (dām) m or f (Hindi spelling दाम)

  1. rope
Declension edit
Declension of دام
singular plural
direct دام (dām) دام (dām)
oblique دام (dām) داموں (dāmō̃)
vocative دام (dām) دامو (dāmō)
Declension of دام
singular plural
direct دام (dām) دامیں (dāmẽ)
oblique دام (dām) داموں (dāmõ)
vocative دام (dām) دامو (dāmo)

Etymology 3 edit

From Classical Persian دام (dām, “trap, snare”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

دام • (dām) ?

  1. trap; snare; net
Derived terms edit

References edit

  • “دام”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “دام”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 502
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dramma”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 378
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dāˊman”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 360

Ushojo edit

Etymology edit

From Persian دام (dâm).

Noun edit

دام (dām)

  1. a net made of thread for catching birds
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