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

EnglishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

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 (usually uncountable, plural dramas or dramata)

  1. 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.
  2. Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy)
  3. Theatrical plays in general
  4. 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.
  5. (slang) 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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DescendantsEdit

  • Arabic: دْرَامَا(drāmā)
  • Cebuano: drama
  • Japanese: ドラマ (dorama)
  • Korean: 드라마 (deurama)
  • Malay: drama

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ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎[1], volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 10.572, page 304.

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Etymology 1Edit

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

NounEdit

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 2Edit

From Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ, a drachma).

NounEdit

drama f (plural drames)

  1. Obsolete spelling of dracma

CebuanoEdit

EtymologyEdit

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).

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: dra‧ma

NounEdit

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

VerbEdit

drama

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

QuotationsEdit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:drama.

CzechEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin drama.

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

drama n

  1. drama (composition intended for actors)

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Further readingEdit

  • drama in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • drama in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

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NounEdit

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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IcelandicEdit

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NounEdit

drama n (genitive singular drama, no plural)

  1. drama

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IndonesianEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

drama (plural drama-drama, first-person possessive dramaku, second-person possessive dramamu, third-person possessive dramanya)

  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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IrishEdit

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NounEdit

drama m (genitive singular drama, nominative plural dramaí)

  1. Cois Fharraige form of dráma

DeclensionEdit

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
drama dhrama ndrama
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

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NounEdit

drāma n (genitive drāmatis); third declension

  1. drama, play

DeclensionEdit

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

Case Singular Plural
Nominative drāma drāmata
Genitive drāmatis drāmatum
Dative drāmatī drāmatibus
Accusative drāma drāmata
Ablative drāmate drāmatibus
Vocative drāma drāmata

DescendantsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • 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 (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

MalteseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Ultimately Latin drama. Doublet of dramm.

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NounEdit

drama f

  1. dramatic art

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Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

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

  1. a drama

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Norwegian NynorskEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma).

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NounEdit

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

  1. (countable or uncountable) a drama

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PolishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

drama f

  1. (drama, literature) 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)

DeclensionEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021) 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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NounEdit

drama m (plural dramas)

  1. drama (composition)
  2. drama (theatrical play)
  3. drama (dramatic situation)

Scottish GaelicEdit

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NounEdit

drama m (genitive singular drama, plural dramaichean)

  1. Alternative form of dràm

NounEdit

drama

  1. genitive singular of dràm

Serbo-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

drȁma f (Cyrillic spelling дра̏ма)

  1. drama

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SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

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

NounEdit

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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SwahiliEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English drama.

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NounEdit

drama (n class, plural drama)

  1. drama

SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

drama n

  1. a drama

DeclensionEdit

Declension of drama 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative drama dramat dramer dramerna
Genitive dramas dramats dramers dramernas

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TagalogEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Spanish drama.

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: dra‧ma
  • IPA(key): /ˈdɾama/, [ˈdɾa.mɐ]

NounEdit

drama

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

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VepsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Russian дра́ма (dráma).

NounEdit

drama

  1. drama (theatre)

InflectionEdit

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

ReferencesEdit

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

WelshEdit

EtymologyEdit

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).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

drama f (plural dramâu)

  1. drama, play

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
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.