dame-jeanne

French

Etymology

From dame + alteration of jane, after Jeanne; literally “Lady Jane”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dam.ʒan/

Noun

dame-jeanne f (plural dames-jeannes)

1. demijohn (bottle)

Descendants

• → Arabic: دَمَجَانَة‎ (damajāna), جَمَدَانَة‎ (jamadāna), دَامَجَانَة‎ (dāmajāna)
• → Catalan: damajoana (calque)
• → English: demijohn (calque)
  • → Czech: demižon
  • → German: Demijohn
  • → Hungarian: demizson
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic: демѝжо̄н

    Latin: demìžōn

• → Finnish: damešaani
• → Italian: damigiana (calque)
  • → Bulgarian: дамаджа́на (damadžána)
  • → Romanian: damigeană
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: демѝжа̄на, демѝја̄на, демѐја̄на, димѝжа̄на

  Latin: demìžāna, demìjāna, demèjāna, dimìžāna

• → Spanish: damajuana (calque)
• → Swedish: damejeanne
• → Venetian: damigiana (calque)
  • → Greek: νταμιτζάνα (damitzána)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: داماجانه‎ (damacana)
    • Turkish: damacana

Further reading

• “dame-jeanne” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
• Vollers, Karl, “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[1] (in German), volume 51, 1897, page 313–314