dầm

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zəm˨˩]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jəm˦˩]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [jəm˨˩]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “North Central initial unlenited ‹đ-› suggests Proto-Vietic *-t-.”)

• đầm (North Central Vietnam)
• giầm (rare)

dầm • (淫, 霪, 淋, 潭)

1. (ambitransitive) to soak; to get soaked; to steep; to pickle; to dip into; to submerge into

   dầm mưa ― to be drenched in the rain

   dầm quần áo bẩn vào nước ― to soak dirty clothes in water

   cà dầm tương ― a type of eggplant (cà bát) soaked in a local soy sauce

2. ellipsis of làm dầm (“to make a field waterlogged”)

   Antonym: ải (“to leave fallow to dry”)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

dầm

1. short handheld paddle or oar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dầm

1. rare form of rầm (“girder”)

• “dầm”, in Soha Tra Từ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Vietnam Communications Corporation. Available under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike license.