drama
English edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin drāma, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), from δράω (dráō, “to act, to take action, to achieve”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɹɑːmə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈdɹɑmə/
Audio (US) (file) - (Canada, Scotland) IPA(key): /ˈdɹæmə/
- (obsolete, nonstandard) IPA(key): /ˈdɹeɪmə/[1]
- Hyphenation: dra‧ma
- Rhymes: -ɑːmə
Noun edit
drama (plural dramas or dramata)
- (countable) A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue
- The author released her latest drama, which became a best-seller.
- (countable) Such a work for television, radio or the cinema, usually one that is not a comedy.
- (uncountable) Theatrical plays in general.
- (uncountable, countable) A situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play.
- After losing my job, having a car crash, and the big row with my neighbours, I don't need any more drama.
- 2018 July 8, Euan McKirdy, Hilary Whiteman, “Thai cave rescue: Divers enter cave to free boys”, in edition.cnn.com[2], CNN, retrieved 2018-07-08:
- Thais have been gripped by the two-week drama unfolding at the Tham Luang cave system, and took to social media Sunday as rescue efforts unfolded.
- (slang) (uncountable) Rumor, lying or exaggerated reaction to life or online events; melodrama; an angry dispute or scene; a situation made more complicated or worse than it should be; intrigue or spiteful interpersonal maneuvering.
Synonyms edit
- See also Thesaurus:drama
Derived terms edit
- bonnet drama
- C-drama
- closet drama
- comedy drama
- costume drama
- crunchy-gravel drama
- daytime drama
- docudrama
- drama documentary
- drama king
- drama llama
- drama queen
- drama queenish
- drama queenism
- drama therapy
- dramatic
- dramatical
- dramatically
- dramaticity
- dramatics
- dramatism
- dramatist
- dramatization
- dramatize
- dramystery
- e-drama
- high drama
- J-drama
- Karpman drama triangle
- K-drama
- legitimate drama
- melodrama
- period drama
- save the drama for your mama
- tank drama
- teen drama
Descendants edit
- → Arabic: دْرَامَا (drāmā)
- Gulf Arabic: دْراما (drāma)
- → Cebuano: drama
- → Hindustani:
- → Japanese: ドラマ (dorama)
- → Korean: 드라마 (deurama)
- → Malay: drama
- → Punjabi: ਡ੍ਰਾਮਾ (ḍrāmā)
Translations edit
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References edit
- ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)[1], volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 10.572, page 304.
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈdɾa.mə]
- IPA(key): (Valencian) [ˈdɾa.ma]
- Rhymes: -ama
- Hyphenation: dra‧ma
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), from δράω (dráō, “to act, to take action, to achieve”).
Noun edit
drama m (plural drames)
Related terms edit
References edit
- “drama” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ, “a drachma”).
Noun edit
drama f (plural drames)
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English drama, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), from δράω (dráō, “to act, to take action, to achieve”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: dra‧ma
Noun edit
drama
- a theatrical play; a skit
- a radio drama
- a soap opera, a TV show that is not a comedy
- an act; a display of behavior meant to deceive
- (derogatory) a show; mere display or pomp with no substance
Verb edit
drama
- to be emotional or sentimental
- to put on an act
Quotations edit
For quotations using this term, see Citations:drama.
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
drama n
- drama (composition intended for actors)
Declension edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin drāma, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
drama n (plural drama's, diminutive dramaatje n)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Indonesian: drama
Icelandic edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
drama n (genitive singular drama, no plural)
Declension edit
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch drama, from Late Latin drāma, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma). Doublet of dorama.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
drama (plural drama-drama, first-person possessive dramaku, second-person possessive dramamu, third-person possessive dramanya)
- drama:
- (colloquial) tragedy, a disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury.
- Synonym: tragedi
Affixed terms edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “drama” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
drama m (genitive singular drama, nominative plural dramaí)
- Cois Fharraige form of dráma
Declension edit
Mutation edit
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
drama | dhrama | ndrama |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈdraː.ma/, [ˈd̪räːmä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈdra.ma/, [ˈd̪räːmä]
Noun edit
drāma n (genitive drāmatis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | drāma | drāmata |
Genitive | drāmatis | drāmatum |
Dative | drāmatī | drāmatibus |
Accusative | drāma | drāmata |
Ablative | drāmate | drāmatibus |
Vocative | drāma | drāmata |
Descendants edit
- → Belarusian: дра́ма (dráma)
- → Catalan: drama
- → Czech: drama
- → Dutch: drama
- → Indonesian: drama
- → English: drama
- → Finnish: draama
- → French: drame
- → German: Drama
- → Hungarian: dráma
- → Icelandic: drama
- → Irish: dráma
- → Macedonian: драма (drama)
- → Norwegian: drama
- → Polish: dramat
- → Portuguese: drama
- → Romanian: dramă
- → Russian: дра́ма (dráma)
- → Serbo-Croatian: дра̏ма / drȁma
- → Spanish: drama
- → Swedish: drama
- → Ukrainian: дра́ма (dráma)
- → Welsh: drama
- → Yiddish: דראַמע (drame) (through some Romance language)
References edit
- “drama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- drama in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- drama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “drama”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- drama in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Maltese edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately Latin drama. Doublet of dramm.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
drama f
Related terms edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”).
Noun edit
drama n (definite singular dramaet, indefinite plural drama or dramaer, definite plural dramaene)
- a drama
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- “drama” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
drama n (definite singular dramaet, indefinite plural drama, definite plural dramaa)
- (countable or uncountable) a drama
Inflection edit
Historical inflection of drama
Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard. Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier. |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
References edit
- “drama” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Medieval Latin dragma, from Classical Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ). First attested in the 1409-1420..
Noun edit
drama f (plural dramas)
- drachma
- 1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 175:
- filla tres dramas de cravos girofes e tres onças de galingal e outro tanto de cardomomo e outro tanto de gengivre e outro tanto d’alcoravina e outro tanto de canela, e a semente do fuuncho en maior contia destas todas.
- take three drachmas of clove, and three ounces of galangal, and as much of cardamom, and as much of ginger, and as much of caraway, and as much of cinnamon, and seeds of fennel in the largest amount of them all
Further reading edit
- “drama” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French drame, from Latin drama, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma).[1] First attested in 1728.[2] Doublet of dramat.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
drama f
- (drama) drama (composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue)
- Synonym: dramat
- (literary, theater) drama (type of play)
- Synonym: dramat
- (education) roleplay (style of teaching where people act according to an assigned role)
- (colloquial) drama (situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play)
Declension edit
References edit
- ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “drama”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
- ^ Wiesław Morawski (13.06.2019) “DRAMA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
Further reading edit
- drama in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- drama in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “drama”, in Słownik języka polskiego[4]
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “drama”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[5]
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “drama”, in Słownik języka polskiego[6] (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 550
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɐmɐ
- Hyphenation: dra‧ma
Noun edit
drama m (plural dramas)
Scottish Gaelic edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
drama m (genitive singular drama, plural dramaichean)
- Alternative form of dràm
Noun edit
drama
Serbo-Croatian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
drȁma f (Cyrillic spelling дра̏ма)
Declension edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin drama, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma). Cognate with English drama.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
drama m (plural dramas)
- drama (genre in art, film, theatre and literature or a work of said genre)
- drama, tragedy, plight (quality of intense or high emotion or situation of enormous gravity that heightens such emotions)
- Synonym: tragedia
- drama (theatre studies)
- Synonym: teatro
- play (work of theatre)
- Synonym: obra
- big deal, fuss, scene
Hyponyms edit
Derived terms edit
- drama de sátiros
- dramón
- eurodrama
- hacer un drama
- reina del drama (“drama queen”)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “drama”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun edit
drama (n class, plural drama)
Swedish edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Noun edit
drama n
- a drama
Declension edit
Declension of drama | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | drama | dramat | dramer | dramerna |
Genitive | dramas | dramats | dramers | dramernas |
Derived terms edit
- blodsdrama
- dramadokumentär
- dramakomedi
- dramalinje
- dramapedagog
- dramaserie
- dramaterapi
- dramathriller
- familjedrama
- gangsterdrama
- gisslandrama
- idédrama
- kammardrama
- kapardrama
- karaktärsdrama
- kidnappningsdrama
- knivdrama
- kostymdrama
- krigsdrama
- kriminaldrama
- kärleksdrama
- läsdrama
- melodrama
- morddrama
- musikdrama
- nutidsdrama
- passionsdrama
- problemdrama
- psykodrama
- relationsdrama
- samtidsdrama
- skoldrama
- skottdrama
- svartsjukedrama
- thrillerdrama
- triangeldrama
- vardagsdrama
- versdrama
- ödesdrama
Related terms edit
References edit
- drama in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- drama in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- drama in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams edit
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈdɾama/, [ˈdɾa.mɐ]
- Rhymes: -ama
- Syllabification: dra‧ma
Noun edit
drama (Baybayin spelling ᜇ᜔ᜇᜋ)
- drama; stage play
- Synonym: dula
- theatrics; histrionics
- Synonym: kaartehan
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Veps edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Russian дра́ма (dráma).
Noun edit
drama
- drama (theatre)
Inflection edit
Inflection of drama (inflection type 5/sana) | |||
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nominative sing. | drama | ||
genitive sing. | draman | ||
partitive sing. | dramad | ||
partitive plur. | dramoid | ||
singular | plural | ||
nominative | drama | dramad | |
accusative | draman | dramad | |
genitive | draman | dramoiden | |
partitive | dramad | dramoid | |
essive-instructive | draman | dramoin | |
translative | dramaks | dramoikš | |
inessive | dramas | dramoiš | |
elative | dramaspäi | dramoišpäi | |
illative | dramaha | dramoihe | |
adessive | dramal | dramoil | |
ablative | dramalpäi | dramoilpäi | |
allative | dramale | dramoile | |
abessive | dramata | dramoita | |
comitative | dramanke | dramoidenke | |
prolative | dramadme | dramoidme | |
approximative I | dramanno | dramoidenno | |
approximative II | dramannoks | dramoidennoks | |
egressive | dramannopäi | dramoidennopäi | |
terminative I | dramahasai | dramoihesai | |
terminative II | dramalesai | dramoilesai | |
terminative III | dramassai | — | |
additive I | dramahapäi | dramoihepäi | |
additive II | dramalepäi | dramoilepäi |
References edit
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin drāma, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), from δράω (dráō, “to act, to take action, to achieve”).
Pronunciation edit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈdrama/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈdra(ː)ma/
Audio (file)
Noun edit
drama f (plural dramâu)
Mutation edit
Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
drama | ddrama | nrama | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |