dam

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


dam

From Proto-Vietic *ɗam, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *p(ɗ)am; cognate with Vietnamese năm.


dam

donuz damı

cowshed, sheep cote (a structure where animals are held)

az-noun

dam (definite accusative damı, plural damlar)

damı (accusative definite)
damlar (plural)

From Old Anatolian Turkish طام (d̥am, dam), from Proto-Turkic *tām.


dam

dama basdırmaq

dam qurmaq

damı (accusative definite)
damlar (plural)
damım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
damlarım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
damın (nominative possessive second-person singular)
damların (nominative possessive second-person singular)
damı (nominative possessive singular third-person)
damları (nominative possessive singular third-person)
damımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
damlarımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
damınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
damlarınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
damı (nominative plural possessive third-person)
damları (nominative plural possessive third-person)
damımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
damlarımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
damını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
damlarını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
damını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
damlarını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
damımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
damlarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
damınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
damlarınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
damını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
damlarını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
damıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
damlarıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
damına (dative possessive second-person singular)
damlarına (dative possessive second-person singular)
damına (dative possessive singular third-person)
damlarına (dative possessive singular third-person)
damımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
damlarımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
damınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
damlarınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
damına (dative plural possessive third-person)
damlarına (dative plural possessive third-person)
damımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
damlarımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
damında (locative possessive second-person singular)
damlarında (locative possessive second-person singular)
damında (locative possessive singular third-person)
damlarında (locative possessive singular third-person)
damımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
damlarımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
damınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
damlarınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
damında (locative plural possessive third-person)
damlarında (locative plural possessive third-person)
damımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
damlarımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
damından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
damlarından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
damından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
damlarından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
damımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
damlarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
damınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
damlarınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
damından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
damlarından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
damımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
damlarımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
damının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
damlarının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
damının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
damlarının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
damımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
damlarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
damınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
damlarınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
damının (genitive plural possessive third-person)
damlarının (genitive plural possessive third-person)


dam

dam (a structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow)

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


dam

head

dam (accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])

dam (nominative)
damnıñ (genitive)
damğa (dative)
damnı (accusative)
damda (locative)
damdan (ablative)


dam

corf, livewell (for storage of live fish under water)

dam c (singular definite dammen, plural indefinite damme)

dammen (definite singular)
damme (indefinite plural)
dam (indefinite nominative singular)
dammen (definite nominative singular)
damme (indefinite nominative plural)
dammene (definite nominative plural)
dams (genitive indefinite singular)
dammens (definite genitive singular)
dammes (genitive indefinite plural)
dammenes (definite genitive plural)


dam

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


dam

dam c (singular definite dammen, plural indefinite dammer)

dammen (definite singular)
dammer (indefinite plural)
dam (indefinite nominative singular)
dammen (definite nominative singular)
dammer (indefinite nominative plural)
dammerne (definite nominative plural)
dams (genitive indefinite singular)
dammens (definite genitive singular)
dammers (genitive indefinite plural)
dammernes (definite genitive plural)


dam

nl-noun

dam m (plural dammen, diminutive dammetje n)

dammen (plural)
dammetje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: dam

→ Caribbean Hindustani: dám

→ Indonesian: dam (“dam”)

→ Papiamentu: dam

→ Saramaccan: dan

→ Sranan Tongo: dan, dam

→ Caribbean Javanese: dham

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


dam

(checkers) king (double draught/checker)

desc

→ Indonesian: dam (“draught/checker(s)”)

Borrowed from Middle French dame, from Spanish dama.


dam

first-person singular present indicative

(in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.


dam

A dam is often an essential source of water to farmers of hilly country.

Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins[…]

1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:

Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.

2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8:

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.

Boats may only be used at places set aside for boating on the dam.

The water reservoir resulting from placing such a structure.

(dentistry) A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band.

A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.

dam

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


dam

Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […]

1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:

(transitive) To block the flow of water.

en-verb

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

dams (present singular third-person)
damming (participle present)
dammed (participle past)
dammed (past)


dam

More dear […] than younglings to their dam.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52:

The dam runs lowing up and down, / Looking the way her harmless young one went.

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

Hunters assure us, that to chuse the best dog, and which they purpose to keepe from out a litter of other young whelps, there is no better meane than the damme herselfe[…].

1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

she / Resolved that Juan should be quite a paragon, / And worthy of the noblest pedigree / (His sire was from Castile, his dam from Aragon)[…].

The sky was cloudless—the moon rolled across the surface like a lamb searching for its dam.

1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, page 112:

Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals.

A kind of crowned piece in the game of draughts.

Variant of dame. Doublet of domina and donna.


dam

[…] A small Indian coin; whence comes the saying "I don't care a dam for you," that is I don't value you a farthing, and not as generally given, "I don't care a damn" or a "curse for you." [Possibly a folk etymology.]

1839, William Holloway, A General Dictionary of Provincialisms, Written with a View to Rescue from Oblivion the Fast Fading Relics of By-gone Days, Lewes, East Sussex: Sussex Press: Printed and published by Baxter and Son, →OCLC, page 42:

(India) An obsolete Indian copper coin, equal to a fortieth of a rupee.

A former coin of Nepal, 128 of which were worth one mohar.

Said to be possibly coined from the English phrase "I don't give a dam(n)," referring to its small worth.


dam

Clipping or Pronunciation spelling of damn.


dam

Do not get too caught up in individual campism. The Most-High sent your spirits back on earth to fix yourselves, come together and wake up our people, so do your dam job and stop letting your fleshly desires control you.

2020, Jacie Rowe III, White Lies, Black Truth, The Lost Light, page 196:


dam

(reintegrationist norm) third-person plural present indicative of dar


dam

(games) draught (American), checkers (British).

checker (a pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard)

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


dam

dam (a structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow)

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


dam

(Islam) fine (a fee levied as punishment for breaking the law)

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


dam

Looking like a checkers board (of a surface).

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


dam

(Islam) A punishment given to someone for breaking certain rules when performing the hajj.

Borrowed from Arabic دَم (dam, “blood”), from Proto-Semitic *dam-, from Proto-Afroasiatic *dam-.


dam

(onomatopoeia) The sound of a drum being beaten.


dam

Onomatopoeic, from the sound of taking a whiff of the marijuana.


dam

Alternative form: diem

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

mt-verb

dam (imperfect jdum, verbal noun dewm or dewmien or dawmien)

jdum (imperfect)
dewm (noun-from-verb)
dewmien (noun-from-verb)
dawmien (noun-from-verb)
domt (first-person masculine perfect singular)
domt (masculine perfect second-person singular)
dam (masculine perfect singular third-person)
domna (first-person masculine perfect singular)
domtu (masculine perfect plural second-person)
damu (masculine perfect plural third-person)
domt (feminine first-person perfect singular)
domt (feminine perfect second-person singular)
damet (feminine perfect singular third-person)
domna (feminine first-person perfect singular)
domtu (feminine perfect plural second-person)
damu (feminine perfect plural third-person)
ndum (first-person imperfect masculine singular)
ddum (imperfect masculine second-person singular)
jdum (imperfect masculine singular third-person)
ndumu (first-person imperfect masculine singular)
ddumu (imperfect masculine plural second-person)
jdumu (imperfect masculine plural third-person)
ndum (feminine first-person imperfect singular)
ddum (feminine imperfect second-person singular)
ddum (feminine imperfect singular third-person)
ndumu (feminine first-person imperfect singular)
ddumu (feminine imperfect plural second-person)
jdumu (feminine imperfect plural third-person)
dum (imperative second-person singular)
dumu (imperative plural second-person)


dam

English: dam

Scots: dam

From Old English *damm, from Proto-West Germanic *damm.


dam

(when preceding labials) Alternative form of dan


dam

Dam ocus tinne in cach coiri.

c. 1000, anonymous author, edited by Rudolf Thurneysen, Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó, Dublin: Stationery Office, published 1935, § 1, page 2, line 12:

[There was] an ox and a side of bacon in each cauldron.

daim (genitive)
dam
later /ɣ-/
later /ɣʲ-/
ndam

Irish: damh

Manx: dow

Scottish Gaelic: damh


dam

From Proto-Oceanic *saman (“outrigger”), from Proto-Austronesian *saʀman (“outrigger”)


dam

dammen (definite singular)
dammer (indefinite plural)
dammene (definite plural)

From Danish dam, from Old Norse dammr m, damm n. The meaning dam (structure) probably comes from Middle Low German [Term?].


dam

the game of checkers (US) or draughts (UK)


dam

dammen (definite singular)
dammar (indefinite plural)
dammane (definite plural)

From Middle Norwegian dammr m, from Old Norse damm n. The meaning dam (structure) probably comes from Middle Low German [Term?].


dam

2012, Joan-Pau Ferré, Eth Arrestoth, 2014, Éditions des Régionalismes, Cressé, page 12.
Cada an, que pujava peth Mont Valièr amont, dam eras vacas, nà amontanhar.

ab (alternative)
amb (alternative)
ambé (alternative)
dab (alternative)
damb (alternative)
emb (alternative)
embé (alternative)


dam

.i. do·fuáircc .i. ar is bés leosom in daim do thúarcuin ind arbe

Which tramples, i.e. for it is custom among them to have the oxen trample on the corn.

daim (genitive)
dam (nominative singular)
dam (dual nominative)
daim (nominative plural)
doim (nominative plural)
daim (singular vocative)
doim (singular vocative)
dam (dual vocative)
daumu (plural vocative)
dumu (plural vocative)
damu (plural vocative)
dam (accusative singular)
dam (accusative dual)
daumu (accusative plural)
dumu (accusative plural)
damu (accusative plural)
daim (genitive singular)
doim (genitive singular)
dam (dual genitive)
dam (genitive plural)
daum (dative singular)
dum (dative singular)
dam (dative singular)
damaib (dative dual)
damaib (dative plural)

desctree

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

From Proto-Celtic *damos, from Proto-Indo-European *dm̥h₂-ó- (“bull”) (compare Albanian dem (“bullock”), Ancient Greek δάμαλος (dámalos, “calf”)), from *demh₂- (“to tame”) (compare Old Irish daimid (“to allow, give in”), Latin domō, English tame).


dam

hind, cow (old feminine form of previous)


dam

second-person singular imperative of daimid


dam

third-person singular present indicative conjunct

first-person singular present subjunctive conjunct


dam

From Magadhi Prakrit 𑀤𑀫𑁆𑀫 (damma), from Sanskrit দ্ৰম্ম (drámma), borrowed from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ). Cognate with Bengali দাম (dam).


dam

damuri (plural)
dam (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
damul (accusative definite nominative singular)
damuri (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
damurile (accusative definite nominative plural)
dam (indefinite singular)
damului (definite singular)
damuri (indefinite singular)
damurilor (definite plural)
damule (singular vocative)
damurilor (vocative)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish دام (dam), from Old Turkic [script needed] (tam), from Proto-Turkic *tām.


dam

ruter dam

dam (indefinite nominative singular)
dams (genitive indefinite singular)
damen (definite nominative singular)
damens (definite genitive singular)
damer (indefinite nominative plural)
damers (genitive indefinite plural)
damerna (definite nominative plural)
damernas (definite genitive plural)


dam

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

decameter

(international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Damakawa.


dam

... damdaki hayvanlar huysuzlaştılar . Bir ara dayıbaşının öksürüğünü yanlarında duydular , alelacele otların arkasında saklandılar . Hüsmen onları görmedi . Hayvanların yerinde olduğunu görünce , kafasını iki yana sallayarak çekip gitti ...

2005, Teoman Ergül, İşgal: "Padişah Efendimizin konukları" (İnkılâp Kitabevi Yayınları), İnkılâp, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 281:

... the animals in the cote became grumpy. At one point, they heard the uncle's cough next to them, and they hurriedly hid behind the grass. Husmen did not see them. When he saw that the animals were in place, he shook his head and walked away...

cowshed, sheep cote (a structure where animals are held)

... dama tıktılar, mapus damına tıktılaaar!.. Yetiş!..» diye avaz avaz bağırmış, sonra da yaşlı kadının güven veren kollarına düşmüş bayılmışçasına kendinden geçmiş, dalgın, mutlu, tam attmı ahırdan çıkarmıştı ki, kapı çalındı. Kapı ...

2005 June 1, Prof. Dr. Gürsel Aytaç, Edebiyat yazıları 1 (Ed. dizisi), Gündoğan Yayınları, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61:

They put him in the can, they put him in the slammer!.. Come on!.. " he shouted at the top of his voice, and then he fell into the reassuring arms of the old woman, ecstatic, pensive, happy, as if he had fainted. He had just taken his horse out of the stable when there was a knock on the door.

From Ottoman Turkish طام (dam), from Old Turkic [script needed] (tam), from Proto-Turkic *tām. Cognate with Uyghur تام (tam, “wall”).
Compare Korean 담 (dam, “wall”).


dam

Dù ai béo bạo như tru,
Về đất Kẻ Ngù cũng tóm như dam
Ai mà gầy tóm như dam
Về đất nhà Chàng, cũng béo như tru
Whosoever as fat and ferocious as the buffalo,
when coming to Kẻ Ngù, they'll be as lean as the crab.
Whosoever as lean as the crab,
when coming home to Chàng, they'll be as fat as the buffalo

(North Central Vietnam) field crab; freshwater crab

From Proto-Vietic *k-taːm; ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *kt₁aam (“crab”). ‹d› here is the result of lenition (Proto-Vietic *k-t- > Middle Vietnamese ‹d› /ð/ > Modern Vietnamese ‹d›). Compare đam, the form with unlenited initial consonant.