داماد

داماد (dâmâd) (definite accusative دامادؽ, plural دامادلار)

1. Arabic spelling of dâmâd (“bridegroom, son-in-law”)

• دوماد (dumâd) (eye-dialect)

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dʾmʾt' /⁠dāmād⁠/), from Old Persian *𐎭𐎠𐎶𐎠𐎫𐎼 (*d-a-m-a-t-r /⁠dāmātar-⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *jā́mātā, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ȷ́ā́mātā, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵem- (“to marry”).

Cognate with Northern Kurdish zava, Pashto زوم (zum), Avestan 𐬰𐬁𐬨𐬁𐬙𐬀𐬭 (zāmātar), Sanskrit जामातृ (jāmātṛ), Ancient Greek γαμβρός (gambrós).

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داماد • (dâmâd) (plural دامادها)

1. bridegroom
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume V, verse 3720:

     گفت دختر را کزین داماد نو، خویشتن پرهیز کن حامل مشو.

     goft doxtar-râ k-az-in dâmâd-e now, xištan parhiz kon hâmel ma-šow

     He said to his daughter, "Guard yourself from this new bridegroom, do not become with child."

2. son-in-law
   • c. 1000, Ferdowsi, “پادشاهی لهراسپ [King Lohrâsp]”, in شاهنامه [Shahnameh]:

     یکی منظری پیش ایوان خویش، برآورده چون تخت رخشان خویش، به میدان شدندی دو داماد اوی، بیاراستندی دل شاد اوی.

     yeki manzari piš-e ivân-e xiš, bar-âvarde čon taxt-e roxšân-e xiš, be meydân šodandi do dâmâd-e uy, bey-ârâstandi del-e šâd-e uy.

     He erected a portico before his own palace, resembling his own shining throne; his two sons-in-law made their way to the square, and delighted his gladdened heart.

3. (obsolete) father-in-law

   Synonym: پدرزن (pedar-zan)

4. (obsolete) ruler's brother-in-law

   Synonym: برادرزن (barâdar-zan)

5. (obsolete) wooer, lover

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “داماد”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَامَاد (dāmād). Doublet of جَن٘وَائِی (jãvāī). First attested in c. 1503 as Middle Hindi داماد (damad /⁠dāmād⁠/).^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑː.mɑːd̪/
• Rhymes: -ɑːd̪
• Hyphenation: دا‧ماد

داماد • (dāmād) m (Hindi spelling दामाद)

1. son-in-law (daughter's husband)

   Synonym: جَن٘وَائِی (jãvāī)

2. bridegroom

• “داماد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “داماد”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]