different between dama vs cama

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

English

Etymology

Blend of camel +? llama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??m?/
• Rhymes: -??m?
• Homophone: comma (accents with the father-bother merger), karma (nonrhotic accents)

Noun

cama (plural camas)

1. A hybrid animal produced by breeding a camel and a llama.

Anagrams

• AACM, ACMA, MCAA, maca

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin cama.

Noun

cama f (plural cames)

1. bed (piece of furniture)

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin gamba (“horse's hock”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kamp?, “bend”). Doublet of gamba.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

cama f (plural cames)

1. leg

   Synonym: gamba

French

Pronunciation

Verb

cama

1. third-person singular past historic of camer

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician / Old Portuguese cama, from Late Latin cama (6th century, Isidorus of Seville), probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?m?]

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed
   • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:

     Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar, e mays lle mando una cama de roupa con quatro cabeçaás e un colchón e un almadraque e con suas sabaas e media duzia d'almofadas e con hua manta de picote, e se ouver em casa un par de colchas, que aja ela una delas.

     Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii; and also bequeath to her a clothed bed with four pillows and a mattress and a mat, and with its sheets and half a dozen cushions and a blanket of coarse linen, and if there is in the house a pair of quilts, she should have one of them

   Synonym: leito

2. platform of a cart
3. garden plot

References

• “cama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cama” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cama” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cama” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kam??/

Adjective

cama

1. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of cam

Mutation

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Ancient Greek ????? (khamaí) (close to the ground) as Isidorus said: "Cama est brevis [lectus] et circa terram; Graeci enim ????? breve dicunt" (Cama is a little [bed] close to the ground; the Greeks call ????? to small things). Other etymologies can include Celtic (Gaulish) or Iberian origin.

Noun

cama f (genitive camae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) bed
   • ca. 600, Isidorus Hispalensis [Isidore of Seville], Etymologiae, 19, 22, 29 & 20, 11, 2. In: Isidori Hispalensis episcopi etymologiarum sive originum libri XX. Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit W. M. Linday. Tomus II libros XI–XX continens, Oxonium, 1911:

     Camisias vocari quod in his dormimus in camis, id est in stratis nostris.

     Cama est brevis et circa terram; Graeci enim ????? breve dicunt.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Portuguese: cama
  • ? Chichewa: kama
  • ? Kabuverdianu: kama
• Spanish: cama
  • ? Bikol Central: kama
  • ? Maranao: kama
  • ? Tagalog: kama

Further reading

• cama in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Old Irish

Adjective

cama

1. Alternative spelling of camma

Mutation

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.ma/

Noun

cama f

1. bed

Descendants

• Galician: cama
• Portuguese: cama

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin camba, itself from From Ancient Greek ????? (kamp?). Eventually lost, likely due to homophony with cama (“bed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kama]

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. leg, thigh

References

• Fulk, Randal C. 1980. Old Spanish ''tiesta'' and ''cama''. Romance Notes 20. 441–447.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cama, from Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?k?.m?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?k?.m?/, [?k??.m?]
• Hyphenation: ca?ma
• Rhymes: -ama

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

2. bed (furniture for sleeping on)

   Synonyms: leito, ninho

Derived terms

• saco-cama

See also

• quarto

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kama/, [?ka.ma]

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed

   Synonym: (less common) lecho

Derived terms

Further reading

• “cama” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.