Fromda ( “ deca- ” ) +m ( “ meter ” ) .
dam
( metrology ) Symbol for decameter ( decametre ) , anSI unit oflength equal to 101 meters ( metres ) .Clipping ofEnglish Dam akawa
dam
( international standards ) ISO 639-3 language code forDamakawa . Adam . FromMiddle English dam Old English *damm Proto-West Germanic *damm Proto-Germanic *dammaz
dam (plural dams
Astructure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow,generally forpurposes such asretaining ordiverting some of the water orretarding therelease ofaccumulated water toavoid abrupt flooding .Adam is often an essential source of water to farmers of hilly country.
1913 Robert Barr , chapter 4, inLord Stranleigh Abroad [1] Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stoutdams , and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins [ …]
2013 August 16,John Vidal , “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas ”, inThe Guardian Weekly 189 , number10 , page 8:Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched bydams 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.
The waterreservoir resulting from placing such a structure.Boats may only be used at places set aside for boating on thedam .
( dentistry ) prevent atooth from gettingwet during dental work, consisting of arubber sheet held with aband .( South Africa , Australia ) reservoir .Afirebrick wall , or astone , which forms the front of thehearth of ablast furnace . structure placed across a flowing body of water
Afrikaans:dam (af) Albanian:pendë (sq) f digë (sq) f Amharic:ግድብ ( gədb ) Arabic:سَدّ m ( sadd ) Egyptian Arabic:سد m ( sadd ) Armenian:ամբարտակ (hy) ( ambartak ) ,պատնեշ (hy) ( patneš ) Azerbaijani:bənd (az) ,sədd damba Bashkir:быуа ( bıwa ) Belarusian:плаці́на (be) f ( placína ) ,да́мба f ( dámba ) Bengali:বাঁধ (bn) ( bãdh ) Bouyei:waail Bulgarian:бент (bg) m ( bent ) Burmese:ရေကာတာ (my) ( rekata ) Catalan:presa (ca) f Chakma:𑄉𑄧𑄙 ( gadhā ) Chinese:Cantonese:壩 / 坝 ( baa3 ) ,水壩 / 水坝 ( seoi2 baa3 ) ,大壩 / 大坝 ( daai6 baa3 ) Dungan:бэ ( be ) ,фибэ ( fibe ) Hokkien:水壩 / 水坝 ( chúi-pà ) Mandarin:壩 / 坝 (zh) ( bà ) ,水壩 / 水坝 (zh) ( shuǐbà ) ,大壩 / 大坝 (zh) ( dàbà ) Chuvash:пӗвӗ ( pĕvĕ ) Cornish:arge m Crimean Tatar:bent Czech:hráz (cs) f přehrada (cs) f Danish:dæmning (da) c Dutch:dam (nl) m Egyptian: (dnjt Erzya:каваз ( kavaz ) Esperanto:akvobaraĵo Estonian:pais Farefare:mõgrɛ Finnish:pato (fi) French:barrage (fr) m Galician:presa (gl) f encoro (gl) m touta f tarula f Georgian:კაშხალი ( ḳašxali ) ,ჯებირი ( ǯebiri ) ,დამბა ( damba ) German:Talsperre (de) m Damm (de) m Staudamm (de) m Greek:φράγμα (el) n ( frágma ) Ancient:ἄνδηρον n ( ándēron ) Hebrew:סֶכֶר (he) m ( sékher ) Hindi:बाँध (hi) m ( bāndh ) Hungarian:gát (hu) Hunsrik:Damm m Icelandic:stífla f Ido:aquobarilo (io) Indonesian:bendungan (id) ,empang (id) Ingrian:plotina Irish:damba Italian:argine (it) m diga (it) f Japanese:ダム (ja) ( damu ) ,堰堤 (ja) ( えんてい, entei ) Kannada:ಕಟ್ಟೆ (kn) ( kaṭṭe ) Kazakh:бөгет ( böget ) ,дамба ( damba ) Khmer:ទំនប់ (km) ( tumnup ) Korean:댐 (ko) ( daem ) ,언제(堰堤) (ko) ( eonje ) ( North Korea ) Kurdish:Central Kurdish:بەربەست ( berbest ) Northern Kurdish:bendav (ku) ,sikur (ku) Kyrgyz:бөгөт (ky) ( bögöt ) ,дамба (ky) ( damba ) ,плотина ( plotina ) Lao:ຝາຍ ( fāi ) ,ເຂື່ອນ (lo) ( khư̄an ) Latvian:dambis (lv) m aizsprosts (lv) m Lithuanian:užtvanka f damba f Lü:ᦚᦻ ( ḟaay ) Macedonian:брана f ( brana ) ,насип m ( nasip ) Malay:empang (ms) ,empangan (ms) ,pengempang ampang bendung bendungan pembendung tebat tambak (ms) ,tandup alahan (ms) Malayalam:അണ (ml) ( aṇa ) ,അണക്കെട്ട് (ml) ( aṇakkeṭṭŭ ) ,ചിറ (ml) ( ciṟa ) Maltese:diga Manchu:ᡩᠠᠯᠠᠨ ( dalan ) ,ᡩᠠᠯᠠᠩᡤᠠ ( dalangga ) Maori:matatara pāwai Middle English:dam Mongolian:Cyrillic:далан (mn) ( dalan ) ,боомт (mn) ( boomt ) Navajo:dáʼdeestłʼin tó beʼekʼid Norwegian:Bokmål:demning m or f dam (no) m Nynorsk:demning m or f dam (no) m Pashto:ډم (ps) m ( ḍǝm ) ,بند (ps) m ( band ) Persian:سَدّ (fa) ( sadd ) ,آببَند (fa) ( âb-band ) ,بَند (fa) ( band ) ( Dari ) Plautdietsch:Daum m Polish:tama (pl) f zapora (pl) f Portuguese:barragem (pt) f represa (pt) f açude (pt) m Quechua:hark'a Romanian:baraj (ro) n Russian:плоти́на (ru) f ( plotína ) ,да́мба (ru) f ( dámba ) ,гать (ru) f ( gatʹ ) ,на́сыпь (ru) f ( násypʹ ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:на́сип m бра́на f га̏т m Roman:násip (sh) m brána (sh) f gȁt (sh) m Shan:ၽၢႆ (shn) ( phǎai ) Slovak:priehrada f hrádza f Slovene:jez (sl) m Southern Altai:плотина ( plotina ) Spanish:presa (es) f represa (es) f azud (es) m or f azuda f pesquera f bocal m Swedish:damm (sv) n dammbyggnad (sv) Tagalog:tarundon saplad prinsa Tajik:сарбанд (tg) ( sarband ) ,дамба (tg) ( damba ) ,дарғот ( darġot ) ,оббанд ( obband ) Tamil:அணை (ta) ( aṇai ) Tatar:буа (tt) ( buwa ) Telugu:ఆనకట్ట (te) ( ānakaṭṭa ) Thai:เขื่อน (th) ( kʉ̀ʉan ) Tibetan:ཆུ་རག ( chu rag ) Tigrinya:ግድብ ( gədb ) Turkish:baraj (tr) ,set (tr) Turkmen:bent (tk) ,damba Ukrainian:гре́бля (uk) f ( hréblja ) ,да́мба f ( dámba ) Urdu:بَنْد m ( band ) ,پشتہ ( puśta ) Uyghur:دامبا ( damba ) ,توغان ( toghan ) Uzbek:toʻgʻon (uz) ,damba (uz) Vietnamese:đập (vi) Welsh:argae (cy) m Yiddish:דאַם m ( dam ) Zhuang:fai
dam (third-person singular simple present dams present participle damming simple past and past participle dammed
( transitive ) block theflow ofwater .1682 Thomas Otway ,Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. [ … ] [ … ] Jos[ eph] Hindmarsh [ … ] →OCLC page 4 :Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd anddamm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring;[ …]
Variant ofdame Doublet ofdomina donna
dam (plural dams
Female parent,mother , generally regarding breeding of animals.1591 (date written),William Shakespeare , “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, [ … ] ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC [ Act III, scene i] :Thedam runs lowing up and down, / Looking the way her harmless young one went.
1603 Michel de Montaigne , chapter 12, inJohn Florio , transl.,The Essayes [ … ] [ … ] Val[ entine] Simmes forEdward Blount [ … ] →OCLC 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 thedamme herselfe [ …]
1819 Lord Byron ,Don Juan , Part 1:she / Resolved that Juan should be quite a paragon, / And worthy of the noblest pedigree / (His sire was from Castile, hisdam from Aragon) [ …]
1974 Lawrence Durrell ,Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, page112 :The sky was cloudless—the moon rolled across the surface like a lamb searching for itsdam .
A kind ofcrowned piece in the game ofdraughts . Said to be possibly coined from the English phrase "I don't give adam(n) [ 1]
dam (plural dams ( historical )
( India ) obsolete Indian coppercoin , equal to a fortieth of arupee .1839 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 page42 :[ …] 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 afolk etymology .]A formercoin ofNepal , 128 of which were worth onemohar . ^ Gorrell, Robert, Watch Your Language: Mother Tongue and Her Wayward Children, University of Nevada Press, 1994 Pronunciation spelling ofdamn
dam
( slang or pronunciation spelling ) Damn .dam (notcomparable )
( slang or pronunciation spelling ) Damn .2020 White Lies, Black Truth, The Lost Light , page196 :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 yourdam job and stop letting your fleshly desires control you.
FromDutch dam Middle Dutch dam Old Dutch dam Proto-Germanic *dammaz
dam (plural damme
pond basin dam dam m
Gheg form ofdëm FromProto-Vietic *ɗam Proto-Mon-Khmer *p(ɗ)am Vietnamese năm
dam
five yaşıldam roof FromOld Anatolian Turkish طام ( d̥am, dam ) , fromProto-Turkic *tām
dam (definite accusative damı plural damlar
roof hovel ,shack dugout cowshed , sheepcote ( a structure where animals are held ) donuz damı pigsty Borrowed fromPersian دام ( “ trap ” ) .
dam (definite accusative damı plural damlar
( figurative ) lockup ,jail ,quod dama basdırmaq to lock up, to putin jail ( archaic ) grid ,net ( archaic ) trap ,snare Synonyms: tələ cələ duzaq dam qurmaq to set atrap FromEnglish dam Middle English dam damme Old English *dam *damm Proto-Germanic *dammaz
dam
dam ( a structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow ) areservoir dam (accusative [please provide] ,plural [please provide] )
stable roof taste FromOld Norse dammr ( “ dam ” ) .
dam c singular definite dammen plural indefinite damme
pond corf ,livewell (for storage of live fish under water)Borrowed fromFrench jeu de dames ( “ draughts ” ) .
dam c or n
draughts ,checkers Borrowed fromFrench dame ( “ lady ” ) .
dam c singular definite dammen plural indefinite dammer
king (superior piece in draughts)FromMiddle Dutch dam Old Dutch dam Proto-West Germanic *damm Proto-Germanic *dammaz
dam m plural dammen diminutive dammetje n
dam Afrikaans:dam → Caribbean Hindustani:dám → Indonesian:dam ( “ dam ” ) → Papiamentu:dam → Saramaccan:dan → Sranan Tongo:dan dam → Caribbean Javanese:dham Borrowed fromMiddle French dame Spanish dama
dam f plural dammen nodiminutive )
( checkers ) king ( double draught/checker ) → Indonesian:dam ( “ draught/checker(s) ” ) See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
dam
inflection ofdammen first-person singular present indicative (in case ofinversion )second-person singular present indicative imperative Inherited[ 1] Latin damnum
dam m plural dams
( obsolete except in phrases) damage ( religion ) damnation FromLatin damnum
dam m plural dams
damage dam
( reintegrationist norm) third-person plural present indicative ofdar Borrowed fromBengali দাম ( dam ) .
dam
price FromDutch dam ( “ king (draught/checkers) ” ) , fromMiddle French dame Old French dame Latin domina
dam (plural dam -dam
( games ) draught ( American ) ,checkers ( British ) checker ( a pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard ) FromDutch dam ( “ dam ” ) , fromMiddle Dutch dam Old Dutch dam Proto-Germanic *dammaz
dam (plural dam -dam
( uncommon ) synonym ofbendungan FromArabic دَم ( dam ,“ blood ” ) , fromProto-Semitic *dam- Proto-Afroasiatic *dam-
dam (plural dam -dam
( Islam ) fine ( a fee levied as punishment for breaking the law ) dam (emphatic damsa
alternative form ofdom ( “ for/to me ” ) dam
honey Borrowed fromDutch dam ( “ king (draught/checkers) ” ) , fromMiddle French dame Old French dame Latin domina
dam (Jawi spelling دم comparative lebih damsuperlative paling dam
Looking like acheckers board ( of a surface ) . dam (Jawi spelling دم uncountable
( board games ) Draughts checkers Synonym: damdam Borrowed fromArabic دَم ( dam ,“ blood ” ) , fromProto-Semitic *dam- Proto-Afroasiatic *dam-
dam (Jawi spelling دم plural dam -dam or dam 2
( Islam ) punishment given to someone forbreaking certain rules whenperforming thehajj .Onomatopoeic .
dam (Jawi spelling دم plural dam -dam or dam 2
( onomatopoeia ) sound of adrum beingbeaten .Onomatopoeic , from the sound of taking awhiff of themarijuana .
dam (Jawi spelling دم plural dam -dam or dam 2
( Perlis ) Marijuana ,weed .Synonym: ganja FromArabic دَامَ ( dāma ) .
dam (imperfect jdum verbal noun dewm or dewmien or dawmien
tolast ; totake (time, especially long time)Alternative form: diem Synonym: ( imperfect only ) jtul FromArabic إِدَام ( ʔidām ) .
dam m
tallow FromOld English *damm Proto-West Germanic *damm
dam
dam ( structure to block water ) body of water dam
alternative form ofdame dam
( when preceding labials ) alternative form ofdan FromOld Irish dam
dam m genitive daim
ox c. 1000 Rudolf Thurneysen ,Scéla Mucca Meic Dathó , Dublin: Stationery Office, published1935 ,§ 1 ,page 2 , line12 :Dam ocus tinne in cach coiri.[There was] an ox and a side of bacon in each cauldron. Mutation ofdam radical lenition nasalization dam dam pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ , later/ɣ(ʲ)-/ ndam
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Middle Irish.
FromProto-Kuki-Chin *dam ( “ healthy, well ” ) .
dam
alive well , in goodhealth FromProto-Oceanic *saman ( “ outrigger ” ) , fromProto-Austronesian *saʀman ( “ outrigger ” )
dam
( nautical ) outrigger ( by metaphorical extension ) wife Possessive forms ofdam (third person singular only) singular third person possessor dame construct form damen
FromDanish dam Old Norse dammr m damm n dam (structure) probably comes fromMiddle Low German [Term?] .
dam m definite singular dammen indefinite plural dammer definite plural dammene
apond adam ( structure ) FromFrench jeu de dames
dam m definite singular dammen indefinite plural dammer definite plural dammene
the game ofcheckers (US) ordraughts (UK) “dam” inThe Bokmål Dictionary .FromMiddle Norwegian dammr m Old Norse damm n dam (structure) probably comes fromMiddle Low German [Term?] .
dam m definite singular dammen indefinite plural dammar definite plural dammane
apond adam ( structure ) FromFrench jeu de dames
dam m definite singular dammen indefinite plural dammar definite plural dammane
the game ofcheckers (US) ordraughts (UK) “dam” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .dam
( Gascony ) ( accompaniment ) with 2012 ,Joan-Pau Ferré ,Eth Arrestoth , 2014, Éditions des Régionalismes, Cressé, page 12.FromProto-Celtic *damos Proto-Indo-European *dm̥h₂-ó- ( “ bull ” ) (compareAlbanian dem ( “ bullock ” ) ,Persian دام ( dâm ,“ livestock ” ) ,Ancient Greek δάμαλος ( dámalos ,“ calf ” ) ), from*demh₂- ( “ to tame ” ) (compareOld Irish daimid ( “ to allow, give in ” ) ,Latin domō English tame
dam m genitive daim
ox stag ( by extension ) hero ,champion Initial mutations of a following adjective:
H = triggers aspirationL = triggers lenitionN = triggers nasalizationc. 800 , Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published inThesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb.10d 6 .i. do·fuáircc .i. ar is bés leosom indaim do thúarcuin ind arbe which tramples, i.e. for it is custom among them to have theoxen trample on the corn dam f
hind ,cow ( old feminine form of previous ) See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
dam
second-person singular imperative ofdaimid ·dam
inflection ofdaimid third-person singular present indicative conjunct first-person singular present subjunctive conjunct dam
alternative form ofdom ( “ to/for me ” ) Mutation ofdam radical lenition nasalization dam dam pronounced with /ð-/ ndam
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “1 dam ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “2 dam ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language IPA (key ) : /ˈdam/ Rhymes:-am Syllabification:dam dam
first-person singular future ofdać dam
genitive plural ofdama FromMagadhi Prakrit 𑀤𑀫𑁆𑀫 ( damma ) , fromSanskrit দ্ৰম্ম ( drámma ) , borrowed fromAncient Greek δραχμή ( drakhmḗ ) . Cognate withBengali দাম ( dam ) .
dam (Hanifi spelling 𐴊𐴝𐴔𐴢
price Synonyms: dor kimot Borrowed fromOttoman Turkish دام ( dam ) , fromOld Turkic [script needed] ( tam ) , fromProto-Turkic *tām
dam n plural damuri
cowshed [ edit ] dam
owl López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012 ),Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía [2] Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. , pages14, 23, 40 dam
romanization of𒁮 ( dam ) FromFrench dame
dam c
alady , awoman ( board games ) checkers Synonym: damspel ( card games , chess , checkers) queen Synonym: drottning ruterdam ―queen of diamondsFromOttoman Turkish طام ( dam ) , fromProto-Turkic *tām Uyghur تام ( tam ,“ wall ” ) .
dam (definite accusative damı plural damlar
roof cowshed , sheepcote ( a structure where animals are held ) 2005 İşgal: "Padişah Efendimizin konukları" (İnkılâp Kitabevi Yayınları)[3] →ISBN →OCLC 281 :...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 ... ... the animals in thecote 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... ( figurative , informal ) lockup ,jail 2005 June 1, Prof. Dr. Gürsel Aytaç,Edebiyat yazıları 1 (Ed. dizisi)[4] →ISBN →LCCN →OCLC 61 :...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 ... They put him in thecan , they put him in theslammer !.. 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. Borrowed fromClassical Persian دَم ( dam ) .
dam (plural damlar
moment, second Seeđam
(classifier con dam
alternative form ofđam ( “ freshwater crab ” ) Dù ai béo bạo như tru,dam dam Whosoever as fat and ferocious as abuffalo ,crab .crab ,Chàng , they'll be as fat as a buffalo dam
owl Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000 ),Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”;38 )[5] Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C. , page215 
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