دام

دَامَ • (dāma) I (non-past يَدُومُ (yadūmu), verbal noun دَوْم (dawm) or دَوَام (dawām) or دَيْمُومَة (daymūma))

1. to last, to endure

   Synonym: بَقِيَ (baqiya)

   مَا دَامَ ٱلنَّجَاحُ مُهِمًّا فَيَجِبُ أَنْ أَنْجَحَ.

   mā dāma n-najāḥu muhimman fayajibu ʔan ʔanjaḥa.

   As long as success is important, I have to succeed.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 11:108:

     وَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ سُعِدُوا فَفِي الْجَنَّةِ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا مَا دَامَتِ السَّمَاوَاتُ وَالْأَرْضُ إِلَّا مَا شَاءَ رَبُّكَ ۖ عَطَاءً غَيْرَ مَجْذُوذٍ

     waʔammā llaḏīna suʕidū fafī l-jannati ḵālidīna fīhā mā dāmati as-samāwātu wālʔarḍu ʔillā mā šāʔa rabbuka ʕaṭāʔan ḡayra majḏūḏin

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Maltese: dam, diem
• → Swahili: dumu

• مَا دَامَ (mā dāma)

دامٍ • (dāmin) m (animate masculine plural دَامُونَ (dāmūna), inanimate masculine plural دَوَامٍ (dawāmin), feminine plural دَامٍيَات (dāmiyāt) or دَوَامٍ (dawāmin))

1. bleeding

دام (dâam) (definite accusative دامؽ, plural داملار)

1. Arabic spelling of dâam (“roof”)

From Persian دام (dâm, “snare, trap”).

دام • (dam)

1. net, trap, snare, for catching game

   Synonyms: (net) آغ (ağ), شبكه (şebeke)

2. (figuratively) trap laid for a person
3. the vanities of life, the lusts of the flesh

From Persian دام (dâm, “livestock, domesticated animals”).

دام • (dam)

1. any wild animal that does not attack or prey on others

دام • (dam)

1. alternative spelling of طام (dam, “roof”)

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 562
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rete”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 1477
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, columns 2009–2010
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 883

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *dáHma (compare Sanskrit दामन् (dā́man, “string, cord, rope, fetter”)), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₁-mn̥, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₁- (“to bind”).

دام • (dâm)

1. snare, trap

   Synonym: تله (tale)

   به دام افتادن ― be dâm oftâdan ― to get trapped (literally, “to fall in a trap”)

   به دام انداختن ― be dâm andâxtan ― to trap, ensnare (literally, “to throw into a trap”)

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dʾm /⁠dām⁠/, “tame animal”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to tame, dominate”). Cognates include Albanian dem (“bull”), Old Irish dam (“ox”) and Ancient Greek δάμαλος (dámalos, “calf”).

دام • (dâm)

1. livestock
2. any domesticated animals and livestock such as sheep, cows, goats, dogs, cats, etc

   Antonym: دَد (dad, “wild animals”)

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “²dām”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 24
• Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 322

Borrowed from French dames.

دام • (dâm)

1. draughts, checkers

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “دام”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːm/

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀫𑁆𑀫 (damma, “coin”), from Sanskrit द्रम्म (dramma), from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːm/

دام • (dām) m (Hindi spelling दाम)

1. price, value, cost

   Synonyms: مولیہ (mūlya), قیمت (qīmat)

   دوردرشن انچے یا سستے داموں پر خریدو

   dūrdarśan ū̃ce yā saste dāmõ par xarīdẽ

   Buy TV at a high or cheap prices

Inherited from Prakrit दाम (dāma), from Sanskrit दाम (dāma, “rope”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːm/

دام • (dām) m or f (Hindi spelling दाम)

1. rope

From Classical Persian دام (dām, “trap, snare”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːm/

دام • (dām) ?

1. trap; snare; net

• دامِ حُس٘ن (dām-e-husn, “trap of beauty”)

• “دام”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “دام”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 502
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dramma”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 378
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dāˊman”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 360

From Persian دام (dâm).

دام (dām)

1. a net made of thread for catching birds