Drama

See also: drama, dráma, dràma, dramă, dramą, and Dramą

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek Δράμα (Dráma).

Pronunciation

• Homophone: drama
• Hyphenation: Dra‧ma

Proper noun

Drama

2. A city, a municipality, a regional unit of the East Macedonia and Thrace region, in north-eastern Greece.

Translations

a city in Greece

• Greek: Δράμα (el) f (Dráma)
• Macedonian: Драма f (Drama)
• Marathi: ध्रामा (dhrāmā)
• Polish: Drama (pl) f
• Turkish: Drama (tr), Dırama

  Ottoman Turkish: درامه (Dırama)

Further reading

• “Drama”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Madar, damar

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin drāma, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “play, drama”, noun), from δρᾰ́ω (drắō, “do, act”, verb) +‎ -μᾰ (-mă, nominalizing suffix). First attested in the 16th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʁaː.ma/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Rhymes: -aːma
• Hyphenation: Dra‧ma

Noun

Drama n (strong, genitive Dramas, plural Dramen)

1. drama

Declension

Declension of Drama [neuter, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Drama	die	Dramen
genitive	eines	des	Dramas	der	Dramen
dative	einem	dem	Drama	den	Dramen
accusative	ein	das	Drama	die	Dramen

Derived terms

• Stationendrama

Related terms

• dramatisch

Further reading

• “Drama”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Drama”, in Online-Wortschatz-Informationssystem Deutsch (in German), Mannheim: Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, 2008–
• “Drama”, in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2026
• “Drama” in Duden online
• “Drama” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *wed-

Proto-Indo-European *-r̥

Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥

Proto-Hellenic *údōr

Ancient Greek ῠ̔́δωρ (hŭ́dōr)

Ancient Greek Ὑδράμα (Hudráma)

Greek Δράμα (Dráma)bor.

Polish Drama

Borrowed from Greek Δράμα (Dráma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdra.ma/
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: Dra‧ma
• Homophone: drama

Proper noun

Drama f

2. Drama (a city, a municipality, a regional unit of the East Macedonia and Thrace region, in north-eastern Greece)

Declension

Declension of Drama

	singular
nominative	Drama
genitive	Dramy
dative	Dramie
accusative	Dramę
instrumental	Dramą
locative	Dramie
vocative	Dramo

Further reading

• “Drama”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)