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drama

See also: Drama, dráma, dràma, dramă, dramą, and Dramą

English

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Etymology

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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”). Doublet of dorama.

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drama (countable and uncountable, plural dramas or dramata)

  2. (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.
  4. (countable) Such a work for television, radio or the cinema, usually one that is not a comedy.
  6. (uncountable) Theatrical plays in general.
  8. (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.
  10. (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.

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References

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  1. ^ 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.

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), from δράω (dráō, “to act, to take action, to achieve”).

Noun

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drama m (plural drames)

  1. drama (theatrical and media genre)
  2. drama (theatrical plays in general)
  3. drama (difficult situation)
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Etymology 2

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drama f (plural drames)

  1. Obsolete spelling of dracma.

Cebuano

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Etymology

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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”).

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  • Hyphenation: dra‧ma

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drama

  1. a theatrical play; a skit
  2. a radio drama
  3. a soap opera, a TV show that is not a comedy
  4. an act; a display of behavior meant to deceive
  5. (derogatory) a show; mere display or pomp with no substance

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drama

  1. to be emotional or sentimental
  2. to put on an act

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:drama.

Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin drama.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈdrama]
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  • Hyphenation: dra‧ma

Noun

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drama n

  1. drama (composition intended for actors)

Declension

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Declension of drama (ma-stem neuter)
singular plural
nominative drama dramata
genitive dramatu dramat
dative dramatu dramatům
accusative drama dramata
vocative drama dramata
locative dramatu dramatech
instrumental dramatem dramaty
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Further reading

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  • “drama”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “drama”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

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Etymology

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From Late Latin drāma, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma).

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drama n (singular definite dramaet, plural indefinite dramaer)

  1. drama

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Declension of drama
neuter
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative drama dramaet dramaer dramaerne
genitive dramas dramaets dramaers dramaernes

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Dutch

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Late Latin drāma, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma).

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drama n (plural drama's, diminutive dramaatje n)

  1. drama (theatrical work; anything involving play acting)
  2. something tragic, a tragedy

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Icelandic

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drama n (genitive singular drama, nominative plural drömu)

  1. drama

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Declension of drama (neuter)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative drama dramað drömu drömun
accusative drama dramað drömu drömun
dative drama dramanu drömum drömunum
genitive drama dramans drama dramanna

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From Dutch drama, from Late Latin drāma, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma). Doublet of dorama.

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  • IPA(key): [ˈdrama]
  • Hyphenation: dra‧ma

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drama (plural drama-drama)

  1. drama:
    1. a composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue
    2. theatrical plays in general
      Synonyms: sandiwara, teater, tonil
  2. (colloquial) tragedy, a disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury
    Synonym: tragedi

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Irish

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drama m (genitive singular drama, nominative plural dramaí)

  1. Cois Fharraige form of dráma

Declension

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Declension of drama (fourth declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative drama dramaí
vocative a dhrama a dhramaí
genitive drama dramaí
dative drama dramaí
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an drama na dramaí
genitive an drama na ndramaí
dative leis an drama
don drama 		leis na dramaí

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Mutated forms of drama
radical lenition eclipsis
drama dhrama ndrama

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Latin

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”).

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drāma n (genitive drāmatis); third declension

  1. drama, play

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Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

singular plural
nominative drāma drāmata
genitive drāmatis drāmatum
dative drāmatī drāmatibus
accusative drāma drāmata
ablative drāmate drāmatibus
vocative drāma drāmata

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References

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  • “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

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Etymology

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Ultimately Latin drama. Doublet of dramm.

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drama f

  1. dramatic art
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Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”).

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drama n (definite singular dramaet, indefinite plural drama or dramaer, definite plural dramaene)

  1. a drama

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma).

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drama n (definite singular dramaet, indefinite plural drama, definite plural dramaa)

  1. (countable or uncountable) a drama

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Historical inflection of drama
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
1982 drama, dramaa [dramai]
2012 (current) drama dramaet drama dramaa
  • Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard.
  • Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier.

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Old Galician-Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Medieval Latin dragma, from Classical Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ). First attested in the 1409-1420.

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drama f (plural dramas)

  1. 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

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  • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “drama”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Polish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French drame, from Latin drama, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma).[1] First attested in 1728.[2] Doublet of dramat.

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drama f

  1. (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
  2. (literary, theater) drama (type of play)
    Synonym: dramat
  3. (education) roleplay (style of teaching where people act according to an assigned role)
  4. (colloquial) drama (situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play)

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Declension of drama
singular plural
nominative drama dramy
genitive dramy dram
dative dramie dramom
accusative dramę dramy
instrumental dramą dramami
locative dramie dramach
vocative dramo dramy

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  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko, Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) “drama”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
  2. ^ 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]

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Etymology

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From Late Latin drāma, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”). Doublet of dorama.

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  • Rhymes: -ɐmɐ
  • Hyphenation: dra‧ma

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drama m (plural dramas)

  1. drama (composition)
  2. drama (theatrical play)
  3. drama (dramatic situation), big deal, fuss, scene
    Para de fazer drama. ― Stop making a scene.

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Scottish Gaelic

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drama m (genitive singular drama, plural dramaichean)

  1. Alternative form of dram

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drama

  1. genitive singular of dram

Serbo-Croatian

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  • IPA(key): /drâma/
  • Hyphenation: dra‧ma

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drȁma f (Cyrillic spelling дра̏ма)

  1. drama

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Declension of drama
singular plural
nominative drȁma drame
genitive drame drȃmā
dative drami dramama
accusative dramu drame
vocative dramo drame
locative drami dramama
instrumental dramom dramama

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin drama, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma). Cognate with English drama.

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdɾama/ [ˈd̪ɾa.ma]
  • Rhymes: -ama
  • Syllabification: dra‧ma

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drama m (plural dramas)

  1. drama (genre in art, film, theatre and literature or a work of said genre)
  2. drama, tragedy, plight (quality of intense or high emotion or situation of enormous gravity that heightens such emotions)
    Synonym: tragedia
  3. drama (theatre studies)
    Synonym: teatro
  4. play (work of theatre)
    Synonym: obra
  5. big deal, fuss, scene
    Synonyms: gran cosa, escándalo, escena

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Swahili

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English drama.

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drama class IX (plural drama class X)

  1. drama

Swedish

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drama n

  1. a drama

Declension

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Declension of drama
nominative genitive
singular indefinite drama dramas
definite dramat dramats
plural indefinite dramer dramers
definite dramerna dramernas

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Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Spanish drama.

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drama (Baybayin spelling ᜇ᜔ᜇᜋ)

  1. drama; stage play
    Synonym: dula
  2. theatrics; histrionics
    Synonym: kaartehan

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Veps

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian дра́ма (dráma).

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drama

  1. drama (theatre)

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Inflection of drama (inflection type 5/sana)
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

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  • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “драма”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[4], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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Etymology

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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”).

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drama f (plural dramâu)

  1. drama, play

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Mutated forms of drama
radical soft nasal aspirate
drama ddrama nrama unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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