دامن
Baluchi
Noun
دامن • (dáman)
Ottoman Turkish
Alternative forms
- دامان
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian دامن (dâman, “skirt”).
Noun
دامن • (damen)
- skirt, the part of a dress or robe that hangs below the waist
- Synonyms: اتك (etek), ذیل (zeyl)
- outskirts, suburb, the area surrounding a city or town
- (nautical) the lower part, bunt or clew of a sail
- (calligraphy) the tail of a letter of the alphabet
Derived terms
- دامنبوسی (damenbusi, “the act of kissing another's skirt”)
- دامنی (dameni, “skirtful”)
Descendants
- Turkish: damen
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “daman3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1091
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دامن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 563
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lacinia”, 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 902
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دامن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum[3], Vienna, column 2010
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دامن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 884
Persian
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /daː.ˈman/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [d̪ɑː.män]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [d̪ɒː.mæn]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [d̪ɔ.män]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | dāman |
| Dari reading? | dāman |
| Iranian reading? | dâman |
| Tajik reading? | doman |
Audio (Iran): (file)
Noun
دامن • (dâman)
Related terms
- دامنه (dâmane)
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian دامن (dāman).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /d̪ɑː.mən/
- Rhymes: -ən
- Hyphenation: دا‧مَن
Noun
دامَن • (dāman) m (Hindi spelling दामन)
- (clothing) hem of a garment; skirt, petticoat
- (geography) outskirts, edges; foothills
- (nautical) sail
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| direct | دامَن (dāman) | دامَن (dāman) |
| oblique | دامَن (dāman) | دامَنوں (dāmanõ) |
| vocative | دامَن (dāman) | دامَنو (dāmano) |
Further reading
More information
- “دامن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “دامن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “داماں”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 300
- Platts, John T. (1884) “دامن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “دامن”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “دامن”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.