دم

Arabic

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dam.ma/

Verb

دَمَّ (damma) I, non-past يَدُمُّ‎ (yadummu)

  1. to coat, to smear
  2. to paint, to daub, to dye, to tint
Conjugation

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /damm/

Noun

دَمّ (damm) m

  1. verbal noun of دَمَّ (damma) (form I)
  2. ointment, salve, unguent, liniment
  3. paint
  4. pigment, dye
Declension

Etymology 3

From Proto-Semitic *dam-, from Proto-Afro-Asiatic *dam-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dam/

Noun

دَم (dam) m (dual دَمَانِ (damāni) or دَمَيَان (damayān) or دَمَوَانِ (damawāni), plural دِمَاء (dimāʾ))

  1. (uncountable) blood
Declension

Etymology 4

Either inherited from Proto-Semitic *dimm- (wild cat) or borrowed from Ge'ez ድመት (dəmmat) because this is rare in literary Arabic and appears in the dialects only in northwest Yemen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dimm/

Noun

دِمّ (dimm) m (plural دِمَم (dimam), feminine دِمّة (dimma))

  1. wild cat
  2. (dialectal) cat
Declension

References

  • Behnstedt, Peter; Woidich, Manfred, editors (2005) Arabische Dialektgeographie. Eine Einführung (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 78) (in German), Leiden: Brill, page 200
  • Behnstedt, Peter; Woidich, Manfred, editors (2010) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band I: Mensch, Natur, Fauna und Flora (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100) (in German), Leiden: Brill, page 326–329
  • Hommel, Fritz (1879) Die Namen der Säugethiere bei den südsemitischen Völkern als Beiträge zur arabischen und äthiopischen Lexicographie, zur semitischen Kulturforschung und Sprachvergleichung und zur Geschichte der Mittelmeerfauna. Mit steter Berücksichtigung auch der assyrischen und hebräischen Thiernamen und geographischen und literaturgeschichtlichen Excursen (in German), Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, pages 318–319
  • Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, page 58

Etymology 5

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dum/

Verb

دُمْ (dum) (form I)

  1. second-person masculine singular imperative active of دَامَ (dāma)
  2. second-person masculine singular active imperative of دَامَ (dāma)

Laki

Noun

دم (dim)

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Persian

Etymology 1

Middle Persian dam.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dæm/

Noun

Dari Persian دم
Iranian Persian دم
Tajiki Persian дам (dam)

دم (dam)

  1. breath
  2. steam
  3. moment
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Azerbaijani: dəm
  • Sylheti: ꠖꠝ (dom)
  • Turkish: dem

Etymology 2

Middle Persian dom.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dom/

Noun

Dari Persian دم
Iranian Persian دم
Tajiki Persian дум (dum)

دم (dom)

  1. tail
Derived terms
  • کژدم (každom)
  • بی‌دم (bi-dom)
  • دمی (domi)

Etymology 3

From Arabic دَم (dam).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dæm/

Noun

دم (dam)

  1. blood

Urdu

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit दम (dama).

Noun

دم (dama) m (Hindi spelling दम)

  1. taming
  2. self-restraint
  3. self-control
  4. temperance

Etymology 2

From Persian دم (dam).

Noun

دم (dam) m (Hindi spelling दम)

  1. breath
  2. puff
  3. whiff
  4. life, vitality
  5. energy, vigour
  6. moment, instant
  7. draught
  8. elasticity
  9. strength
  10. ambition
  11. pleasure

Etymology 3

From Persian, from Sanskrit दम्भः (dambhaḥ).

Noun

دم (dam) m (Hindi spelling दम)

  1. deceit
  2. fraud
  3. trickery
  4. trick
  5. coaxing
  6. arrogance
  7. pride
  8. boasting

Etymology 4

From Arabic دَم (dam).

Noun

دم (dam) m (Hindi spelling दम)

  1. blood

Etymology 5

From Persian دم (dom).

Noun

دم (dum) f (Hindi spelling दुम)

  1. tail
  2. end
  3. extremity
  4. follower
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