damma

See also: ḍamma and dämma

English

A damma

Alternative forms

• ḍamma, Damma, dammah

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ضَمَّة (ḍamma, “a joining”), instance noun of the verb ضَمَّ (ḍamma, “to join”). Refers to the joining of the lips together when making an /u/ sound.

Noun

Examples
دُ (du) /du/ دُو (dū) /duː/.

damma (plural dammas or damma)

1. (linguistics) In the Arabic script, the vowel point for u, appearing as a small curl placed above a letter ( ـُ ) and designating a short u /u/. If the Arabic letter و (wāw) immediately follows, it indicates a long ū /uː/.
2. In Iranian Persian ـُ represents the vowel /o/. If the letter ـو immediately follows it represents the diphthong /ow/. This usage differs from other Arabic script languages and from classical Persian, in which the diphthong /ow/ did not occur.

Translations

an Arabic diacritic denoting the vowel point "u" (ḍamma)

• Arabic: ضَمَّة f (ḍamma)
• Azerbaijani: zəmmə
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 合口符 (hékǒufú)

• French: damma (fr) m or f
• German: Damma n
• Hindi: पेश (hi) m (peś), ज़म्मा f (zammā)
• Japanese: ダンマ (damma)
• Kazakh: дамма (damma)
• Korean: 담마 (damma)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: بەر (ber), بۆر (ckb) (bor)

  Northern Kurdish: zeme (ku), zemme (ku) f

• Malay: baris depan, baris di hadapan, dammah
• Pashto: ضمه (ps) f (zamá)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: پیش (fa) (pēš), ضَمَّه (zamma)

  Dari: پیش (fa) (pēš), ضَمَّه (zamma)

  Iranian Persian: پیش (fa) (piš), ضَمِّه (zamme)

• Russian: да́мма f (dámma)
• Sundanese: péés, panyuku
• Tajik: замма (zamma), пеш (tg) (peš)
• Turkish: damma, ötre (tr)
• Urdu: پیش m (peś), ضَمَّہ m (zamma),
• Uzbek: zamma (uz), pesh (uz)

See also

• Arabic diacritics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fatha
• kasra
• sukun
• shadda
• tashkil

Anagrams

• Madam, madam

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ضَمَّة (ḍamma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da.ma/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

damma m (plural dammas)

1. damma

Italian

Alternative forms

• dama

Etymology

From Latin damma, dāma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdam.ma/
• Rhymes: -amma
• Hyphenation: dàm‧ma

Noun

damma f (plural damme)

1. (archaic, literary) (male or female) fallow deer

   Synonym: daino

Further reading

• damma in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Dama dama

Alternative forms

• dāma

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to domesticate, tame”).

Related to domō (“to tame”) and cognate with English tame.

Noun

damma f or m (genitive dammae); first declension

1. A fallow deer
   • c. 41 BCE – 39 BCE, Vergilius, Eclogae 8.26–28:

     Mopso Nisa datur! Quid non speremus amantes?
     Iungentur iam gryphes equis, aevoque sequenti
     Cum canibus timidi venient ad pocula dammae.

     Nosa has been given to Mopsus! What, should lovers even hope? Gryphons are now to the cart yoked together with horses, and, new times comming, bashful fallow deer will with dogs now quench its thirst.

   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 3.645–648:

     […] ,
     cumque metu rapitur, tunica velata recincta
     currit, ut auditis territa damma lupis,
     corniger hanc tumidis rapuisse Numicius undis
     creditur et stagnis occuluisse suis.

     […] , as she was taken by fear and in her loose shirt fled, like the fallow deer startled by the howling of wolves, they say horned Numicius had her stolen to the rising waves and in his waters hidden.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	damma	dammae
genitive	dammae	dammārum
dative	dammae	dammīs
accusative	dammam	dammās
ablative	dammā	dammīs
vocative	damma	dammae

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: dama, → damma
• ⇒ Late Latin: dāmus
  • Old French: dain (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle Dutch: dâme, damne
    • ⇒ Dutch: damhert
  • →⇒ Middle Low German: damherte
  • → Old High German: tām, tāmo
    • Middle High German: tāme
      • ⇒ German: Dambock
      • ⇒ German: Damhirsch
        • → Danish: damhjort (calque, obsolete)
        • → Swedish: damhjort (calque, obsolete)
      • ⇒ German: Damtier
      • ⇒ German: Damwild

References

• “damma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “damma”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Thun, Nils (1968), “Germanic words for deer”, in Studia Neophilologica, volume 40, A.B. Lundequistska Bokhandeln, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 101.

Maltese

Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian dama and/or Italian dama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdam.ma/
• Rhymes: -amma

Noun

damma f (plural dammi or damem)

1. die (polyhedron used in games of chance)

Old Frisian

Verb

damma

1. to dam

Oromo

Etymology

Cognate with Konso takma, Tsamai zammo.

Noun

dámma

1. honey

Derived terms

• dammaawuu

References

• Gamtaa, Xilaahun (2004), Galmee Afaan Oromo fi Afaan Ingilizii Barsiisuu - Comprehensive Oromo-English-Dictionary (COED), New York, USA: Karrayyuu Publishing, →ISBN, page 212

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀤𑀫𑁆𑀫 (Brahmi script)
• दम्म (Devanagari script)
• দম্ম (Bengali script)
• දම‍්ම (Sinhalese script)
• ဒမ္မ or ၻမ္မ or ၻမ်မ (Burmese script)
• ทมฺม or ทัมมะ (Thai script)
• ᨴᨾ᩠ᨾ (Tai Tham script)
• ທມ຺ມ or ທັມມະ (Lao script)
• ទម្ម (Khmer script)
• 𑄘𑄟𑄴𑄟 (Chakma script)

Adjective

damma

1. gerundive of dameti (“to tame”)
2. in need of taming, in need of restraint

Declension

Declension table of "damma" (masculine)

Case / Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	dammo	dammā
Accusative (second)	dammaṃ	damme
Instrumental (third)	dammena	dammehi or dammebhi
Dative (fourth)	dammassa or dammāya or dammatthaṃ	dammānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	dammasmā or dammamhā or dammā	dammehi or dammebhi
Genitive (sixth)	dammassa	dammānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	dammasmiṃ or dammamhi or damme	dammesu
Vocative (calling)	damma	dammā

Declension table of "dammā" (feminine)

Case / Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	dammā	dammāyo or dammā
Accusative (second)	dammaṃ	dammāyo or dammā
Instrumental (third)	dammāya	dammāhi or dammābhi
Dative (fourth)	dammāya	dammānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	dammāya	dammāhi or dammābhi
Genitive (sixth)	dammāya	dammānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	dammāya or dammāyaṃ	dammāsu
Vocative (calling)	damme	dammāyo or dammā

Declension table of "damma" (neuter)

Case / Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	dammaṃ	dammāni
Accusative (second)	dammaṃ	dammāni
Instrumental (third)	dammena	dammehi or dammebhi
Dative (fourth)	dammassa or dammāya or dammatthaṃ	dammānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	dammasmā or dammamhā or dammā	dammehi or dammebhi
Genitive (sixth)	dammassa	dammānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	dammasmiṃ or dammamhi or damme	dammesu
Vocative (calling)	damma	dammāni

References

Pali Text Society (1921–1925), “damma”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Swedish

Etymology 1

damm +‎ -a

Verb

damma (present dammar, preterite dammade, supine dammat, imperative damma)

1. (transitive) to dust, to remove dust

   Angela dammade ivrigt symaskinen.

   Angela eagerly dusted the sewing machine.

   att damma av

   to dust off

   att damma ned

   to cover with dust

   att damma på

   to punch, to hit (someone in a fight; as if with a duster)

2. (intransitive) to raise dust, to be dusty

   och så for han sin väg, så att det dammade omkring vagnen.

   and so he went away, so the dust whirled about the wagon.

Conjugation

Conjugation of damma (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	damma		dammas
supine	dammat		dammats
imperative	damma		—
imper. plural1	dammen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	dammar	dammade	dammas	dammades
ind. plural1	damma	dammade	dammas	dammades
subjunctive2	damme	dammade	dammes	dammades
present participle		dammande
past participle		dammad

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Related terms

• damma av
• damma ned
• damma på
• dammborste
• dammhandduk
• dammig
• dammkorn
• dammrock
• dammvippa
• dammvirvel
• dammviska
• damning

Etymology 2

Verb

damma (present dammar, preterite dammade, supine dammat, imperative damma)

1. (intransitive, slang) to eat

   Synonym: käka

Conjugation

Conjugation of damma (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	damma		dammas
supine	dammat		dammats
imperative	damma		—
imper. plural1	dammen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	dammar	dammade	dammas	dammades
ind. plural1	damma	dammade	dammas	dammades
subjunctive2	damme	dammade	dammes	dammades
present participle		dammande
past participle		dammad

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

References

• “damma”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• damma in Albert Montgomery, Svensk-engelsk ordbok (1914)