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 script: демѝжо̄н

    Latin script: demìžōn

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

  Cyrillic script: демѝжа̄на, демѝја̄на, демѐја̄на, димѝжа̄на

  Latin script: demìžāna, demìjāna, demèjāna, dimìžāna

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

Further reading

• “dame-jeanne”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Vollers, Karl (1897) “Beiträge zur Kenntniss der lebenden arabischen Sprache in Aegypten”, in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft‎^[1] (in German), volume 51, pages 313–314