different between dam vs dama

Romanian

Etymology

From Turkish dam.

Noun

dam n (plural damuri)

1. cowshed

Declension

Translingual

Symbol

dam

1. (metrology) Symbol for decameter (decametre), an SI unit of length equal to 10¹ meters (metres).

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /dæm/
• Rhymes: -æm
• Homophone: damn

Etymology 1

From Middle English dam, damme, from Old English dam, damm, from Proto-Germanic *dammaz.

Noun

dam (plural dams)

1. A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding.
2. The water reservoir resulting from placing such structure.

3. (dentistry) A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band.
4. (South Africa, Australia) A reservoir.
5. A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.

Derived terms

• backdam

Translations

Verb

dam (third-person singular simple present dams, present participle damming, simple past and past participle dammed)

1. (transitive) To block the flow of water.

Translations

Etymology 2

Variant of dame. Doublet of domina and donna.

Noun

dam (plural dams)

2. Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals.
3. A kind of crowned piece in the game of draughts.

Coordinate terms

• (female parent): sire

Translations

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

dam (plural dams)

1. (India) An obsolete Indian copper coin, equal to a fortieth of a rupee.
2. A former coin of Nepal, 128 of which were worth one mohar.

Etymology 4

Interjection

dam

1. (slang or pronunciation spelling) Damn.

Further reading

• dam on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• dam (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Dam in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• ADM, AMD, Adm., DMA, MAD, MDA, adm., mad

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch dam, from Middle Dutch dam, from Old Dutch dam, from Proto-Germanic *dammaz.

Noun

dam (plural damme)

1. pond, basin
2. dam

Derived terms

• opgaardam
• studam

Arem

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *?am, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *p(?)am; cognate with Vietnamese n?m.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dam]

Numeral

dam

1. five

Further reading

• Michel Ferlus, 2014, Arem, a Vietic Language, Mon-Khmer Studies 43.1-15, page 5

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish ???? (d?am, dam), from Common Turkic *t?m.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?m/

Noun

dam (definite accusative dam?, plural damlar)

1. roof
2. hovel, shack
3. dugout
4. cowshed, sheep cote (a structure where animals are held)

5. (figuratively) lockup, jail, quod

6. (archaic) grid, net
7. (archaic) trap, snare

   Synonyms: t?l?, c?l?, duzaq

Declension

Cebuano

Etymology

From English dam, from Middle English dam, damme, from Old English *dam, *damm, from Proto-Germanic *dammaz.

Noun

dam

1. a dam; a structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow
2. a reservoir

Crimean Tatar

Noun

dam

1. stable
2. roof
3. taste

Declension

Synonyms

• (stable): aran
• (taste): lezet, nezet, tat, dad

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse dammr (“dam”).

Noun

dam c (singular definite dammen, plural indefinite damme)

1. pond
2. corf, livewell (for storage of live fish under water)

Inflection

Derived terms

• dambrug n

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French jeu de dames (“draughts”).

Noun

dam c or n

1. draughts, checkers

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French dame (“lady”).

Noun

dam c (singular definite dammen, plural indefinite dammer)

1. king (superior piece in draughts)

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?m/
• Hyphenation: dam
• Rhymes: -?m

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch dam, from Old Dutch dam, from Proto-Germanic *dammaz.

Noun

dam m (plural dammen, diminutive dammetje n)

1. dam

Derived terms

• beverdam
• lavadam
• muurdam
• rijsdam
• strekdam
• stuwdam
• visdam
• Amsterdam
• Rotterdam

Descendants

• Afrikaans: dam
• ? Indonesian: dam (“dam”)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Middle French dame, from Spanish dama.

Noun

dam f (plural dammen)

1. (checkers) king (double draught/checker)

Related terms

• dammen

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: dam (“draught/checker(s)”)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

dam

1. first-person singular present indicative of dammen
2. imperative of dammen

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin damnum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (obsolete) /dan/, (dated) /d??/, /dam/

Noun

dam m (plural dams)

1. (obsolete except in phrases) damage
2. (religion) damnation

Derived terms

• au grand dam de

Related terms

• damner
• dommage

Further reading

• “dam” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• AMD

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin damnum.

Noun

dam m (plural dams)

1. damage

Synonyms

• daneç

Related terms

• danâ

Garo

Etymology

Borrowed from Bengali ??? (dam).

Noun

dam

1. price

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dam]
• Hyphenation: dam

Etymology 1

From Dutch dam (“king (draught/checkers)”), from Middle French dame, from Old French dame, from Latin domina.

Noun

dam (first-person possessive damku, second-person possessive dammu, third-person possessive damnya)

1. (games) draught (American), checkers (British).
2. checker, a pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Dutch dam (“dam”), from Middle Dutch dam, from Old Dutch dam, from Proto-Germanic *dammaz.

Noun

dam (first-person possessive damku, second-person possessive dammu, third-person possessive damnya)

1. dam, a structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding.

   Synonyms: bendungan, tanggul

Compounds

Etymology 3

From Arabic ???? (dam, “blood”), from Proto-Semitic *dam-, from Proto-Afroasiatic *dam-.

Noun

dam (first-person possessive damku, second-person possessive dammu, third-person possessive damnya)

1. (Islam) fine, a punishment for breaking the law.

Further reading

• “dam” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Pronoun

dam (emphatic damsa)

1. Alternative form of dom (“for/to me”)

Lashi

Etymology

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *l-(t/d)jam (“full, flat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dam/

Adjective

dam

1. flat

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[2], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /däm/

Noun

dam (Jawi spelling ???, plural dam-dam, informal 1st possessive damku, impolite 2nd possessive dammu, 3rd possessive damnya)

1. draughts; checkers (two-player board game).

Further reading

• “dam” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Maltese

Alternative forms

• diem

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (d?ma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?m/

Verb

dam (imperfect jdum)

1. to last; to take (time, especially long time)

   Synonym: (imperfect only) jtul

Related terms

• dejjem

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English dam, damm, from Proto-Germanic *dammaz.

Alternative forms

• damme, dame

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dam/

Noun

dam

1. dam (structure to block water)
2. body of water

Descendants

• English: dam
• Scots: dam

References

• “dam, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

dam

1. Alternative form of dame

Middle Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *damos, from Proto-Indo-European *dm?h?-ó- (“bull”), from *demh?- (“to tame”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?/

Noun

dam m (genitive daim)

1. ox
   • c. 1000, Anonymous; published in (1935) , Rudolf Thurneysen, editor, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Staionery Office, § 1, l. 12, page 2: “Dam ocus tinne in cach coiri. [[There was] an ox and a side of bacon in each cauldron.]”

Descendants

• Irish: damh
• Manx: dow
• Scottish Gaelic: damh

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 dam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian dammr m, from Old Norse damm n. The meaning dam (structure) probably comes from Middle Low German [Term?]. Sense 3 is from French jeu de dames.

Noun

dam m (definite singular dammen, indefinite plural dammer, definite plural dammene)

1. a pond
2. a dam (structure)
3. the game of checkers (US) or draughts (UK)

Synonyms

• demning (structure)

References

• “dam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Middle Norwegian dammr m, from Old Norse damm n. The meaning dam (structure) probably comes from Middle Low German [Term?]. Sense 3 is from French jeu de dames.

Noun

dam m (definite singular dammen, indefinite plural dammar, definite plural dammane)

1. a pond
2. a dam (structure)
3. the game of checkers (US) or draughts (UK)

Synonyms

• demning (structure)

References

• “dam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• ab (Gard)
• amb (Languedoc)
• ambé (Provençal)
• dab (Gascony)
• damb (Gascony)
• emb (Limousin)
• embé (Provençal)

Adverb

dam

1. (Gascony) (accompaniment) with

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *damos, from Proto-Indo-European *dm?h?-ó- (“bull”) (compare Albanian dem (“bullock”), Ancient Greek ??????? (dámalos, “calf”)), from *demh?- (“to tame”) (compare Old Irish daimid (“to allow, give in”), Latin dom?, English tame).

Noun

dam m (genitive daim)

1. ox
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 10^d6

2. stag
3. (by extension) hero, champion

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Irish: dam
  • Irish: damh
  • Manx: dow
  • Scottish Gaelic: damh

Noun

dam f

1. hind, cow (old feminine form of previous)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

dam

1. inflection of daimid:
   1. first-person singular present subjunctive conjunct
   2. second-person singular imperative

·dam

1. third-person singular present indicative conjunct of daimid

Etymology 3

Pronoun

dam

1. Alternative form of dom (“to/for me”)

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 dam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 dam”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dam/

Verb

dam

1. first-person singular future of da?

Noun

dam

1. genitive plural of dama

Rohingya

Alternative forms

• ????????????????? (dam) – Hanifi Rohingya script

Etymology

From Magadhi Prakrit ???????????????? (damma), from Sanskrit ?????? (drámma), borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (drakhm?). Cognate with Bengali ??? (dam).

Noun

dam (Hanifi spelling ????????????????)

1. price

   Synonyms: dor, kimot

San Juan Guelavía Zapotec

Noun

dam

1. owl

References

• López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012) Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía?^[3] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 14, 23, 40

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??m/

Noun

dam c

1. a lady, a woman
2. (card games) a queen

3. (chess) a queen

Declension

Synonyms

• (in chess): drottning

Related terms

See also

References

• dam in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????, from Old Turkic [script needed] (tam), from Proto-Turkic *T?m.

Compare Uyghur ???? (tam, “wall”), Korean ? (dam, “wall”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?m/

Noun

dam (definite accusative dam?, plural damlar)

1. roof

Uzbek

Noun

dam (plural damlar)

1. bellows

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• ?am

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *k-ta?m; ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kt?aam (“crab”). ‹d› here is the result of lenition (Proto-Vietic *k-t- > Middle Vietnamese ‹d› /ð/ > Modern Vietnamese ‹d›). Compare ?am, the form with unlenited initial consonant.

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [za?m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [ja?m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ja?m??]

Noun

(classifier con) dam

1. (North Central Vietnam) field crab; freshwater crab

Zoogocho Zapotec

Noun

dam

1. owl

References

• Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)?^[4] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 215

English

Noun

dama (uncountable)

1. The game of Turkish draughts.

See also

• dama gazelle

Anagrams

• A.A.M.D., Adam

Asturian

Noun

dama f (plural damas)

1. (chess) queen

See also

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French dame, from Latin domina, whence also dona.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?da.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?da.ma/

Noun

dama f (plural dames)

1. lady (graceful, elegant or noble woman)
2. (chess) queen

See also

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish damas.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: da?ma

Noun

dama

1. the game of checkers
2. (checkers) a king
3. a demijohn

Verb

dama

1. (checkers) to crown a king

Cornish

Noun

dama f (plural damyow)

1. mother, dam

Synonyms

• mamm/mabm

Derived terms

• dama-wydn

See also

• sira/syra

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da.ma/
• Homophones: damas, damât

Verb

dama

1. third-person singular past historic of damer

Anagrams

• Adam

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from French dame.

Noun

dama f (plural damas)

1. lady, dame, woman of high status
2. (chess) queen

Synonyms

• (chess queen): raíña

See also

Garo

Etymology

From (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

dama

1. drum

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?ma/
• Rhymes: -a?ma

Noun

dama f (genitive singular dömu, nominative plural dömur)

1. lady (also used as a third person address)

Declension

Derived terms

• dömur mínar og herrar

See also

• frú
• lafði

Anagrams

• Adam

Ilocano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish damas.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: da?ma
• IPA^(key): /?dama/

Noun

dama

1. (board games) checkers (US); draughts (UK)

Derived terms

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dame. Doublet of donna.

Noun

dama f (plural dame)

1. lady
2. (board games, in the singular) draughts / checkers
3. king (in draughts/checkers)
4. draughtboard / checkerboard
5. queen (playing card)

Synonyms

• (lady): donna (archaic), lady, signora

Verb

dama

1. third-person singular present indicative of damare
2. second-person singular imperative of damare

Jamamadí

Verb

dama

1. (Banawá) to hold securely

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Japanese

Romanization

dama

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Kashubian

Noun

dama f

1. lady
2. weir
3. pavement

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

• (damà) IPA^(key): [d???m?]
• (dãma) IPA^(key): [?d?ä??m?]

Noun

damà f (plural dãmos) stress pattern 2

1. lady
2. (card games) queen

Declension

See also

• (lady): ponia
• (queen): karalien?

References

Anagrams

• mada

Maquiritari

Noun

dama

1. The ocean or sea, which surrounds the earth and is connected via underground rivers to Lake Akuena in the mythological Sky.

References

• Ed. Key, Mary Ritchie and Comrie, Bernard. The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Carib (De'kwana).
• de Civrieux, Marc. Watunna.

Maranao

Etymology

From Spanish damas.

Noun

dama

1. checkers, draughts

Derived terms

• damadama (“checkered”)

References

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• damen

Noun

dama m or f

1. definite feminine singular of dame

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

dama f (definite singular dama, indefinite plural damer or damor, definite plural damene or damone)

1. definite singular of dame
2. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by dame

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da?a/

Verb

·dama

1. third-person singular present subjunctive conjunct of daimid

Mutation

Polish

Etymology

From French dame, Old French dame, from Late Latin domna, shortened variant of Latin domina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?da.ma/

Noun

dama f

1. lady
2. (card games) queen

Declension

See also

Further reading

• dama in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• dama in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from French dame, from Latin domina.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal, Brazil) IPA^(key): /?d?.m?/
• Hyphenation: da?ma
• Rhymes: -ama

Noun

dama f (plural damas)

1. lady
2. (chess) queen
3. (card games) queen

See also

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dama]

Noun

dama f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of dam?

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??ma/
• Hyphenation: da?ma

Noun

dáma f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. lady
2. (chess, card games) queen

Declension

See also

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dà?ma/

Noun

dáma f

1. lady
2. (chess) queen
3. (card games) queen

Inflection

See also

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French dame, from Latin domina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dama/, [?d?a.ma]
• Hyphenation: da?ma

Noun

dama f (plural damas, masculine caballero, masculine plural caballeros)

1. lady, dame

   Synonyms: señora, ama

2. (chess) queen

   Synonym: reina

Derived terms

See also

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese damas.

Pronunciation

Noun

dama (n class, no plural)

1. draughts, checkers

Synonyms

• drafti

Tagalog

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /d??ma/

Etymology 1

Noun

damá

1. feeling; perception

   Synonyms: damdam, pakiramdam

2. opinion about something

   Synonyms: kuro, kuru-kuro, palagay

Adjective

damá

1. felt; perceived

Derived terms

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /?da.ma/

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Spanish damas.

Noun

dáma

1. checkers; draughts
2. (checkers) a king

Etymology 3

Borrowing from Spanish dama (“lady, dame”).

Noun

dáma

1. maid of honor; lady-in-waiting

   Synonym: abay

Related terms

• dama de noche, dama de-notse
• damahuwana