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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English dragme, dramme, from Old French dragme, drame, from Late Latin dragma, from Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (drakhm?, “unit of weight; a handful”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?æm/
• Rhymes: -æm

Noun

dram (plural drams)

1. (units of measurement) A small unit of weight, variously:
   1. One sixteenth of an ounce avoirdupois (approximately 1.77 g).
   2. (pharmacy) Alternative form of drachm (“¹?₈ ounce apothecary (3.89 g) (symbol: ?)”).
   3. (now uncommon) Synonym of dirhem: a former Turkish unit of weight (variously 1.5–3.5 g).
      • 1888, W.M.F. Petrie, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXIV, s.v. "Weights and Measures":

        Dram (49·5 grains), 100=chequi, 4=oka (2·8286 ?); dram (49·5 grains), 180=rotl, 100=kintal or kantar (127·29 ?).

   4. (obsolete) Synonym of drachma: a former Greek unit of weight (about 4.3 g).
3. (by extension) Any similarly minute quantity, (now particularly) a small amount of strong alcohol or poison.
4. (historical, mining) A cart formerly used to haul coal in coal mines.
5. (obsolete) Synonym of drachma: a Greek silver coin weighing one drachma; other similar coins.
   • The Bible (King James Version), Ezra 2:69

     They gave after their ability unto the treasure of the work threescore and one thousand drams [i.e., the Persian daric] of gold, and five thousand pound of silver […]

Synonyms

• (small amount of something): mite, smidge, smidgeon, bit, pinch
• (small amount of alcohol): nip, shot, slug, snifter, tot

Derived terms

• angel's dram
• dram shop liability

Descendants

• ? Danish: dram
  • ? Faroese: drammur
  • ? Norwegian: dram
• ? Scottish Gaelic: dràm

Translations

Verb

dram (third-person singular simple present drams, present participle dramming, simple past and past participle drammed)

1. (dated, intransitive) To drink drams.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)

2. (dated, transitive) To ply with drams of drink.
   • 1855, William Makepeace Thackeray, 'Newcomes xxviii. (1868) II. 335

     The parents. . are getting ready their daughter for sale . . praying her, and imploring her, and dramming her, and coaxing her.

Etymology 2

From Armenian ???? (dram), from Middle Persian ????????????????? (z?zn /drahm/), from Ancient Greek ?????? (drakhm?, “unit of weight, a handful”), from ????????? (drássomai, “I hold, seize”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?æm/, /d??m/

Noun

dram (plural drams)

1. (numismatics) The currency of Armenia, divided into 100 luma.

Translations

Anagrams

• AMDR, Adm'r, RADM, RAdm, arm'd, mard

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English dram, from Old French drame, variant of dragme.

Noun

dram c (singular definite drammen, plural indefinite dramme or drammer)

1. dram (a small quantity of an alcoholic drink)

Inflection

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?m

Verb

dram

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

Anagrams

• darm, R'dam

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English dram, from Old French drame, from Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (drakhm?). Doublet of drakme.

Noun

dram m (definite singular drammen, indefinite plural drammer, definite plural drammene)

1. a dram, nip, shot (usually of brandy)

References

• “dram” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “dram” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English dram, from Old French drame, from Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (drakhm?). Doublet of drakme.

Noun

dram m (definite singular drammen, indefinite plural drammar, definite plural drammane)

1. a dram, nip, shot (usually of brandy)

References

• “dram” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *draum

Noun

dr?m m

1. a dream

Inflection

Romanian

Etymology

From Greek ????? (drámi)

Noun

dram n (uncountable)

1. dram
2. tiny amount

Declension