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dáma

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Czech

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈdaːma]
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -aːma
  • Hyphenation: dá‧ma

Noun

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dáma f

  1. lady
    Antonym: pán
  2. (board games) checkers (US), draughts (UK)
  3. a component of certain games
    1. (chess) queen
      Synonym: královna
    2. (card games) queen
    3. (checkers) king

Declension

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Derived terms

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See also

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Chess pieces in Czech · šachové figurky (layout · text)
♚ ♛ ♜ ♝ ♞ ♟
král dáma, královna věž střelec jezdec, kůň pěšec
Playing cards in Czech · karty (layout · text)
eso dvojka trojka čtyřka pětka šestka sedmička
osmička devítka desítka kluk dáma král žolík

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Faroese

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Etymology

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Probably derived from Old Norse dámr (“smell, taste”, noun), whence also dámur (“colour, hue; apperance, atmosphere”). Compare Norwegian Nynorsk dåma (“smell”), Icelandic dáma (in the expression nú dámar mér ekki).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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dáma (third person singular past indicative dámdi, third person plural past indicative dámdi, supine dámt)

  1. to like

Conjugation

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Conjugation of dáma (irregular)
infinitive dáma
supine dámt (dámað)
present past
first singular dámar dámdi (dámaði)
second singular dámar dámdi (dámaði)
third singular dámar dámdi (dámaði)
plural dámar dámdi (dámaði)
participle (a7 (a6))1 dámandi dámdur (dámaður)
imperative
singular -!
plural -!

1Only the past participle being declined.

Hungarian

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Etymology

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From German Dame, from French dame (“lady”), from Latin domina (“mistress of the house”), from domus (“house”).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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dáma (countable and uncountable, plural dámák)

  1. lady, gentlewoman
    Synonyms: hölgy, úrnő, úrinő, úrhölgy, úriasszony
  2. (card games) queen
  3. (board games) draughts (UK), checkers (US)

Declension

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Possessive forms of dáma
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. dámám dámáim
2nd person sing. dámád dámáid
3rd person sing. dámája dámái
1st person plural dámánk dámáink
2nd person plural dámátok dámáitok
3rd person plural dámájuk dámáik

Derived terms

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Compound words
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References

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  1. ^ István Tótfalusi (2005), Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára [A Storehouse of Foreign Words: An Explanatory and Etymological Dictionary of Foreign Words], Budapest: Tinta, →ISBN

Further reading

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  • dáma in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
  • dáma in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2026).

Slovak

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /daːma/, [ˈdaːma]
  • Rhymes: -aːma
  • Hyphenation: dá‧ma

Noun

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dáma f (relational adjective dámsky, diminutive dámička)

  1. lady
  2. (chess) queen
  3. (card games) queen

Declension

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Declension of dáma
(pattern žena)
singularplural
nominativedámadámy
genitivedámydám
dativedámedámam
accusativedámudámy
locativedámedámach
instrumentaldámoudámami

See also

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Chess pieces in Slovak · šachové figurky (layout · text)
♚ ♛ ♜ ♝ ♞ ♟
kráľ dáma veža strelec jazdec pešiak

Further reading

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  • “dáma”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2026