"damm" meaning in Swedish

See damm in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /dam/ Audio: Sv-damm.ogg
Etymology: From Old Swedish damb, dåm (“dust, steam”), from Old Norse dumba (“dust, cloud of dust”), from or related to Proto-Germanic *dampaz (“vapor”). Akin to Low German damp, Dutch damp, and Danish damp (“vapor, steam, fog”), German Dampf, Icelandic dampi, English damp (“moderately wet”), and to German dampf imperative of dimpfen (“to smoke”). Etymology templates: {{inh|sv|gmq-osw|damb}} Old Swedish damb, {{inh|sv|non|dumba|t=dust, cloud of dust}} Old Norse dumba (“dust, cloud of dust”), {{der|sv|gem-pro|*dampaz|t=vapor}} Proto-Germanic *dampaz (“vapor”), {{cog|nl|damp}} Dutch damp, {{cog|da|damp||vapor, steam, fog}} Danish damp (“vapor, steam, fog”), {{cog|de|Dampf}} German Dampf, {{cog|is|dampi}} Icelandic dampi, {{cog|en|damp||moderately wet}} English damp (“moderately wet”), {{cog|de|dampf|}} German dampf Head templates: {{head|sv|nouns||||g=n|g2=|g3=|g4=|head=|sort=}} damm n, {{sv-noun|n}} damm n Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], damm [indefinite, nominative, singular], damms [genitive, indefinite, singular], dammet [definite, nominative, singular], dammets [definite, genitive, singular], - [indefinite, nominative, plural], - [genitive, indefinite, plural], - [definite, nominative, plural], - [definite, genitive, plural]
  1. dust Tags: neuter Synonyms: damb [dialectal] Derived forms: dammkåpa, dammoln, dammråtta, dammsugare, dammtuss
    Sense id: en-damm-sv-noun-q7MnARF9 Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header, Bodies of water, Landforms Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Bodies of water: 50 50 Disambiguation of Landforms: 48 52
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /dam/ Audio: Sv-damm.ogg
Etymology: From Old Swedish damber, dampn, from Old Norse dammr, from Proto-Germanic *dammaz. Etymology templates: {{inh|sv|gmq-osw|damber}} Old Swedish damber, {{inh|sv|non|dammr}} Old Norse dammr, {{inh|sv|gem-pro|*dammaz}} Proto-Germanic *dammaz Head templates: {{head|sv|nouns||||g=c|g2=|g3=|g4=|head=|sort=}} damm c, {{sv-noun|c}} damm c
  1. dam; pond, pool Tags: common-gender Derived forms: ankdamm, fiskdamm
    Sense id: en-damm-sv-noun-DkKFMRak Categories (other): Swedish entries with incorrect language header, Bodies of water, Landforms Disambiguation of Swedish entries with incorrect language header: 50 50 Disambiguation of Bodies of water: 50 50 Disambiguation of Landforms: 48 52
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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Download raw JSONL data for damm meaning in Swedish (5.2kB)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Swedish dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-08-28 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-08-05 using wiktextract (872fc7b and 4deed51). 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.