See dumdum on Wiktionary
Download JSON data for dumdum meaning in All languages combined (7.8kB)
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "hi",
"3": "दम दम"
},
"expansion": "Hindi दम दम (dam dam)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "bn",
"2": "দমদম"
},
"expansion": "Bengali দমদম (domodom)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "hi",
"2": "दमदमा",
"3": "",
"4": "tenaille, a raised mound or battery"
},
"expansion": "दमदमा (damadmā, “tenaille, a raised mound or battery”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Dum Dum, a city in India where the type of bullet was developed, from Hindi दम दम (dam dam) (Bengali দমদম (domodom)), from Hindi दमदमा (damadmā, “tenaille, a raised mound or battery”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dumdums",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "dumdum (plural dumdums)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine, page 267",
"text": "He related to us how the savages make bullets from the heart of a very hard wood cured by a special process. These bullets are only effectual when fired from a short range, and when they lodge in the flesh they explode like dumdum bullets.\n(He here refers to Tim Soan, a Taiwanese aboriginal person)",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact to cause a gaping wound."
],
"id": "en-dumdum-en-noun-tMlDODDw",
"links": [
[
"bullet",
"bullet"
],
[
"expand",
"expand"
],
[
"impact",
"impact"
],
[
"gaping",
"gaping"
],
[
"wound",
"wound"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dum-dum"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "bullet that expands on impact",
"word": "dumdumluoti"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ntoum-ntoum",
"sense": "bullet that expands on impact",
"word": "ντουμ-ντουμ"
}
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "dum dum"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Dum Dum",
"dumdum"
],
"word": "dumdum"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dumb"
},
"expansion": "dumb",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "A reduplication of the adjective dumb, spelled dumbly.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dumdums",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "dumdum (plural dumdums)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "42 58",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "36 64",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "35 65",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "2 98",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "People",
"orig": "en:People",
"parents": [
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"An ignorant person; an idiot."
],
"id": "en-dumdum-en-noun-7gYNGEBq",
"links": [
[
"childish",
"childish"
],
[
"endearing",
"endearing"
],
[
"ignorant",
"ignorant"
],
[
"idiot",
"idiot"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(childish or endearing) An ignorant person; an idiot."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dumb dumb"
},
{
"word": "dumb-dumb"
},
{
"word": "dumbdumb"
}
],
"tags": [
"childish",
"endearing"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "an idiot",
"word": "tomppeli"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "mūrkh",
"sense": "an idiot",
"word": "मूर्ख"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "ullū",
"sense": "an idiot",
"word": "उल्लू"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dúrenʹ",
"sense": "an idiot",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ду́рень"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bolván",
"sense": "an idiot",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "болва́н"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ólux",
"sense": "an idiot",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "о́лух"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "an idiot",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "dumbom"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "an idiot",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "dumhuvud"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "an idiot",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "fårskalle"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "an idiot",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "idiot"
}
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0",
"word": "dum dum"
}
],
"word": "dumdum"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "akl",
"2": "map-pro",
"3": "*demdem"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Austronesian *demdem",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Austronesian *demdem.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "akl",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "dumdum",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Aklanon",
"lang_code": "akl",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Aklanon entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to remember"
],
"id": "en-dumdum-akl-verb-OC7Eux0Z",
"links": [
[
"remember",
"remember"
]
]
}
],
"word": "dumdum"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "hil",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "dumdum",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Hiligaynon",
"lang_code": "hil",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Hiligaynon entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to recollect, remember, think"
],
"id": "en-dumdum-hil-verb-kKPfqm2C",
"links": [
[
"recollect",
"recollect"
],
[
"remember",
"remember"
],
[
"think",
"think"
]
]
}
],
"word": "dumdum"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "msk",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "dumdum",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Mansaka",
"lang_code": "msk",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Mansaka entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"to think"
],
"id": "en-dumdum-msk-verb-ci5lfH8k",
"links": [
[
"think",
"think"
]
]
}
],
"word": "dumdum"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tft",
"2": "paa-nha-pro",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-North Halmahera",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "tft",
"2": "poz-pro",
"3": "*lumut"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lumut",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "saj",
"2": "ḏuḏumutu"
},
"expansion": "Sahu ḏuḏumutu",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "tlb",
"2": "lulumiti"
},
"expansion": "Tobelo lulumiti",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Likely from an older *dumudumu, from Proto-North Halmahera, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lumut. Compare Sahu ḏuḏumutu, Tobelo lulumiti.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tft",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"f1sc": "",
"f2sc": "",
"head": "",
"tr": "-"
},
"expansion": "dumdum",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "dumdum",
"name": "tft-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Ternate",
"lang_code": "tft",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Ternate entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Tobelo terms in nonstandard scripts",
"parents": [
"Terms in nonstandard scripts",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "lifeform",
"langcode": "tft",
"name": "Plants",
"orig": "tft:Plants",
"parents": [
"Lifeforms",
"All topics",
"Life",
"Fundamental",
"Nature"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"moss"
],
"id": "en-dumdum-tft-noun-nhNauVSC",
"links": [
[
"moss",
"moss"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/dum.ˈdum/"
}
],
"word": "dumdum"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "akl",
"2": "map-pro",
"3": "*demdem"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Austronesian *demdem",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Proto-Austronesian *demdem.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "akl",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "dumdum",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Aklanon",
"lang_code": "akl",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Aklanon entries with incorrect language header",
"Aklanon lemmas",
"Aklanon terms derived from Proto-Austronesian",
"Aklanon terms inherited from Proto-Austronesian",
"Aklanon verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"to remember"
],
"links": [
[
"remember",
"remember"
]
]
}
],
"word": "dumdum"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Hindi",
"English terms derived from toponyms",
"en:People"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "hi",
"3": "दम दम"
},
"expansion": "Hindi दम दम (dam dam)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "bn",
"2": "দমদম"
},
"expansion": "Bengali দমদম (domodom)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "hi",
"2": "दमदमा",
"3": "",
"4": "tenaille, a raised mound or battery"
},
"expansion": "दमदमा (damadmā, “tenaille, a raised mound or battery”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Dum Dum, a city in India where the type of bullet was developed, from Hindi दम दम (dam dam) (Bengali দমদম (domodom)), from Hindi दमदमा (damadmā, “tenaille, a raised mound or battery”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dumdums",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "dumdum (plural dumdums)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, “FORMOSA THE BEAUTIFUL”, in National Geographic Magazine, page 267",
"text": "He related to us how the savages make bullets from the heart of a very hard wood cured by a special process. These bullets are only effectual when fired from a short range, and when they lodge in the flesh they explode like dumdum bullets.\n(He here refers to Tim Soan, a Taiwanese aboriginal person)",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A soft-nosed bullet that expands on impact to cause a gaping wound."
],
"links": [
[
"bullet",
"bullet"
],
[
"expand",
"expand"
],
[
"impact",
"impact"
],
[
"gaping",
"gaping"
],
[
"wound",
"wound"
]
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dum-dum"
},
{
"word": "dum dum"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "bullet that expands on impact",
"word": "dumdumluoti"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "ntoum-ntoum",
"sense": "bullet that expands on impact",
"word": "ντουμ-ντουμ"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Dum Dum",
"dumdum"
],
"word": "dumdum"
}
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from toponyms",
"en:People"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "dumb"
},
"expansion": "dumb",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "A reduplication of the adjective dumb, spelled dumbly.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "dumdums",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "dumdum (plural dumdums)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English childish terms",
"English endearing terms"
],
"glosses": [
"An ignorant person; an idiot."
],
"links": [
[
"childish",
"childish"
],
[
"endearing",
"endearing"
],
[
"ignorant",
"ignorant"
],
[
"idiot",
"idiot"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(childish or endearing) An ignorant person; an idiot."
],
"tags": [
"childish",
"endearing"
]
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "dum dum"
},
{
"word": "dumb dumb"
},
{
"word": "dumb-dumb"
},
{
"word": "dumbdumb"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "an idiot",
"word": "tomppeli"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "mūrkh",
"sense": "an idiot",
"word": "मूर्ख"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "ullū",
"sense": "an idiot",
"word": "उल्लू"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dúrenʹ",
"sense": "an idiot",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ду́рень"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "bolván",
"sense": "an idiot",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "болва́н"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ólux",
"sense": "an idiot",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "о́лух"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "an idiot",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "dumbom"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "an idiot",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "dumhuvud"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "an idiot",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "fårskalle"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "an idiot",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "idiot"
}
],
"word": "dumdum"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "hil",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "dumdum",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Hiligaynon",
"lang_code": "hil",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Hiligaynon entries with incorrect language header",
"Hiligaynon lemmas",
"Hiligaynon verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"to recollect, remember, think"
],
"links": [
[
"recollect",
"recollect"
],
[
"remember",
"remember"
],
[
"think",
"think"
]
]
}
],
"word": "dumdum"
}
{
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "msk",
"2": "verb"
},
"expansion": "dumdum",
"name": "head"
}
],
"lang": "Mansaka",
"lang_code": "msk",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Mansaka entries with incorrect language header",
"Mansaka lemmas",
"Mansaka verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"to think"
],
"links": [
[
"think",
"think"
]
]
}
],
"word": "dumdum"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tft",
"2": "paa-nha-pro",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Proto-North Halmahera",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "tft",
"2": "poz-pro",
"3": "*lumut"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lumut",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "saj",
"2": "ḏuḏumutu"
},
"expansion": "Sahu ḏuḏumutu",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "tlb",
"2": "lulumiti"
},
"expansion": "Tobelo lulumiti",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Likely from an older *dumudumu, from Proto-North Halmahera, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *lumut. Compare Sahu ḏuḏumutu, Tobelo lulumiti.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "tft",
"2": "noun",
"3": "",
"4": "",
"5": "",
"6": "",
"f1sc": "",
"f2sc": "",
"head": "",
"tr": "-"
},
"expansion": "dumdum",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "dumdum",
"name": "tft-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Ternate",
"lang_code": "tft",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Ternate entries with incorrect language header",
"Ternate lemmas",
"Ternate nouns",
"Ternate terms derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian",
"Ternate terms derived from Proto-North Halmahera",
"Ternate terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Tobelo terms in nonstandard scripts",
"tft:Plants"
],
"glosses": [
"moss"
],
"links": [
[
"moss",
"moss"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/dum.ˈdum/"
}
],
"word": "dumdum"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.