دم

• IPA^(key): /dam.ma/

دَمَّ • (damma) I (non-past يَدُمُّ (yadummu), verbal noun دَمّ (damm))

1. to coat, to smear
2. to paint, to daub, to dye, to tint

• IPA^(key): /damm/

دَمّ • (damm) m

1. verbal noun of دَمَّ (damma) (form I)
2. ointment, salve, unguent, liniment
3. paint
4. pigment, dye

Inherited from Proto-Semitic *dam-, from Proto-Afroasiatic *dam-.

• IPA^(key): /dam/

دَم • (dam) m (dual دَمَانِ (damāni) or دَمَيَان (damayān) or دَمَوَانِ (damawāni), plural دِمَاء (dimāʔ))

1. (uncountable) blood

• دَمَوِيّ (damawiyy)

• Hijazi Arabic: دَمّ (damm)
• Maltese: demm
• Moroccan Arabic: دم (damm)
• → Indonesian: dam (“punishment”)
• → Swahili: damu

Suggested by Hommel as inherited from a Proto-Semitic *dimm- (“wild cat”), but presumably borrowed from Ge'ez ድመት (dəmmat), because this is a Lockwort rare in literary Arabic and appears in the dialects only in northwest Yemen, whereas it overspreads all Ethiopian Semitic as the word for the cat; the compared Akkadian 𒁺𒈠𒈬 (du-ma-mu /⁠dumāmu, tumāmu⁠/, “leopard”) is considered probably a foreign borrowing.

• IPA^(key): /dimm/

دِمّ • (dimm) m (plural دِمَم (dimam), feminine دِمّة (dimma)) (now only Yemen)

1. cat; wild cat

• Behnstedt, Peter, Woidich, Manfred (2005) Arabische Dialektgeographie. Eine Einführung (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 78) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 200
• Behnstedt, Peter, Woidich, Manfred (2010) Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte – Band I: Mensch, Natur, Fauna und Flora (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 100) (in German), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 326–329
• Hommel, Fritz (1879) Die Namen der Säugethiere bei den südsemitischen Völkern als Beiträge zur arabischen und äthiopischen Lexicographie, zur semitischen Kulturforschung und Sprachvergleichung und zur Geschichte der Mittelmeerfauna. Mit steter Berücksichtigung auch der assyrischen und hebräischen Thiernamen und geographischen und literaturgeschichtlichen Excursen‎^[1] (in German), Leipzig: J. C. Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, →DOI, pages 318–319
• Landsberger, Benno (1931) “Lexikalisches Archiv”, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete (in German), volume 40, page 296 / Nr. 2
• Landsberger, Benno (1934) Die Fauna des alten Mesopotamien nach der 14. Tafel der Serie ḪAR-RA = ḫubullu (Abhandlungen der philologisch-historischen Klasse der sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften; XLII. Nr. VI)‎^[2] (in German), Leipzig: Salomon Hirzel, pages 83–84
• Nöldeke, Theodor (1910) Neue Beiträge zur semitischen Sprachwissenschaft‎^[3] (in German), Straßburg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 58
• Soden, Wolfram von (1933) “Der hymnisch-epische Dialekt des Akkadischen”, in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete (in German), volume 41, page 168 / Fn. 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

دُمْ • (dum) (form I) /dum/

1. second-person masculine singular imperative of دَامَ (dāma)

From Arabic دَم (dam).

دم • (damm) m (plural دموم (dumūm))

1. blood

• Heath, Judith, Mahadi, Mahamat Zene (2021) Lexique Arabe Tchadien-Français‎^[4] (in French), 11th edition, N'Djamena, Chad: SIL Chad, page 38

Inherited from Arabic دَم (dam).

• IPA^(key): /damm/, [dæmː] (before a vowel), [ˈdæmːe] (before a consonant), [dæm] (sentence-final)

دمّ • (damm) m (uncountable)

1. blood
2. (of people) wit; tolerability (see usage notes)

• Sense 2 is only understood when used with certain adjectives, like تقيل (tiʔīl), خفيف (ḵafīf), or بارد (bārid); or with عند (ʕand, “to have”), where one "having blood" means one is a respectable person, or is well-balanced.

From Arabic دَم (dam).

• IPA^(key): /damm/

دَمّ • (damm) m (dual دَمّين (dammēn), plural دُمَّان (dummān))

1. blood

دم (dim)

1. (anatomy) mouth

دم (plural دم-دم or دم٢)

1. Jawi spelling of dam.‎

From Arabic دَم (dam).

• IPA^(key): /damm/

• Audio:

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دم • (damm) m (plural دمايات (dmāyāt))

1. blood

   غلى فيه الدم.

   ḡlā fīh ed-damm.

   He got very angry.

   (literally, “The blood boiled inside of him.”)

   كان كله دمايات. ― kān kullu dmāyāt. ― He was covered in blood.

From Persian دم (dam).

دم • (dem)

1. breath, respiration
2. instant, moment
3. sip, draught
4. (Bektashism) wine, raki
   • 1923, Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Nur Baba‎^[5], page 19:

     دم بیتدیمی؟

     Dem bitti mi?

     Is the liquor gone?

• Turkish: dem

From Arabic دَم (dam).

دم • (dem)

1. blood

   Synonym: قان (kan)

• Turkish: dem

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “dem”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “dem⁴”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1141
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دم”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[6] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 580
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[7], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 913

From earlier دُنْب (dunb), see there for more.

Readings
Classical reading?	dum
Dari reading?	dum
Iranian reading?	dom
Tajik reading?	dum

دم • (dum / dom) (Tajik spelling дум)

1. tail

• کژدم (každom)
• بی‌دم (bi-dom)
• دمی (domi)
• دم اسبی (dom-e asbi)

• → Azerbaijani: düm
• → Kazakh: дүм (düm)
• → Lezgi: ттум (t̄um)

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dam), from Proto-Iranian *damH (“to blow, breathe; to swell”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰemH- (“to blow”);^[1][2] compare Sanskrit धमति (dhámati, “to blow”), Lithuanian dùmti (“to blow”), Polish dąć (“to blow”), English damp.

Readings
Classical reading?	dam
Dari reading?	dam
Iranian reading?	dam
Tajik reading?	dam

دم • (dam) (Tajik spelling дам)

1. breath
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3126:

     چون که من من نیستم این دم ز هوست / پیش این دم هر که دم زد کافر اوست

     čūn ki man man nēstam īn dam z-i hō-st / pēš īn dam har ki dam zad kāfir ō-st

     Since I am not I, this breath (of mine) is from Him: in the presence of this breath if any one breathes (a word) he is an infidel.”

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. steam
3. moment

• دمیدن (damidan)

• → Armenian: դամ (dam)
• → Azerbaijani: dəm
• → Bengali: দম (dom)
• → Hindi: दम (dam)
• → Kazakh: дем (dem)
• → Ottoman Turkish: دم (dem)
  • Turkish: dem
• → Tamil: தம் (tam)
• → Urdu: دم (dam)
• → Uzbek: dam

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *ǵómbʰos.

Readings
Classical reading?	dam
Dari reading?	dam
Iranian reading?	dam
Tajik reading?	dam

دم • (dam)

1. edge
2. blade

Borrowed from Arabic دَم (dam).

Readings
Classical reading?	dam
Dari reading?	dam
Iranian reading?	dam
Tajik reading?	dam

دم • (dam)

1. (obsolete) blood

   Synonym: خون (xun)

From Arabic دَم (dam).

• IPA^(key): /damm/, [dam]

• Audio (Ramallah):

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دمّ • (damm) m

1. blood

• تقيل الدمّ (tʔīl id-damm, “unpleasant, disagreeable, irritating”)

Borrowed from Sanskrit दम (dama).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪əm/

دم • (dam) m (Hindi spelling दम)

1. taming
2. self-restraint
3. self-control
4. temperance

Borrowed from Classical Persian دم (dam).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪əm/

دم • (dam) m (Hindi spelling दम)

1. breath
2. puff
3. whiff
4. life, vitality
5. energy, vigour
6. moment, instant
7. draught
8. elasticity
9. strength
10. ambition
11. pleasure

From Sanskrit दम्भ (dambha). Cognate with Persian دم (dam).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪əm/

دم • (dam) m (Hindi spelling दम)

1. deceit
2. fraud
3. trickery
4. trick
5. coaxing
6. arrogance
7. pride
8. boasting

Borrowed from Classical Persian دَم (dam), from Arabic دَم (dam).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪əm/

دم • (dam) m (Hindi spelling दम)

1. blood

Borrowed from Classical Persian دم (dum).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ʊm/

دم • (dum) f (Hindi spelling दुम)

1. tail
2. end
3. extremity
4. follower