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See also: Drama, dráma, dràma, dramă, dramą, and Dramą
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Ancient Greek δρᾰ́ω (drắō)
Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥
Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă)
Ancient Greek δρᾶμᾰ (drâmă)bor.
Late Latin drāmabor.
English drama

    From Late Latin drāma, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), from δράω (dráō, “to act, to take action, to achieve”). Doublet of dorama.

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    drama (countable and uncountable, plural dramas or dramata)

    2. (countable) A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue
      The author released her latest drama, which became a best-seller.
    4. (countable) Such a work for television, radio or the cinema, usually one that is not a comedy.
    6. (uncountable) Theatrical plays in general.
    8. (uncountable, countable) A situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play.
      After losing my job, having a car crash, and the big row with my neighbours, I don't need any more drama.
      • 2018 July 8, Euan McKirdy, Hilary Whiteman, “Thai cave rescue: Divers enter cave to free boys”, in edition.cnn.com‎[2], CNN, retrieved 8 July 2018:
        Thais have been gripped by the two-week drama unfolding at the Tham Luang cave system, and took to social media Sunday as rescue efforts unfolded.
    10. (slang, uncountable) Rumor, lying or exaggerated reaction to life or online events; melodrama; an angry dispute or scene; a situation made more complicated or worse than it should be; intrigue or spiteful interpersonal maneuvering.

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    1. ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909), A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9)‎[1], volume I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 10.572, page 304.

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    Etymology 1

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      Borrowed from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), from δράω (dráō, “to act, to take action, to achieve”).

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      drama m (plural drames)

      1. drama (theatrical and media genre)
      2. drama (theatrical plays in general)
      3. drama (difficult situation)
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        drama f (plural drames)

        1. obsolete spelling of dracma

        Cebuano

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        Etymology

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          Borrowed from English drama, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), from δράω (dráō, “to act, to take action, to achieve”).

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          • Hyphenation: dra‧ma

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          drama

          1. a theatrical play; a skit
          2. a radio drama
          3. a soap opera, a TV show that is not a comedy
          4. an act; a display of behavior meant to deceive
          5. (derogatory) a show; mere display or pomp with no substance

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          drama

          1. to be emotional or sentimental
          2. to put on an act

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          For quotations using this term, see Citations:drama.

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          Borrowed from Latin drama.

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          • IPA(key): [ˈdrama]
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          • Hyphenation: dra‧ma

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          drama n

          1. drama (composition intended for actors)

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          Declension of drama (ma-stem neuter)
          singular plural
          nominative drama dramata
          genitive dramatu dramat
          dative dramatu dramatům
          accusative drama dramata
          vocative drama dramata
          locative dramatu dramatech
          instrumental dramatem dramaty
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          Danish

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          From Late Latin drāma, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma).

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          drama n (singular definite dramaet, plural indefinite dramaer)

          1. drama

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          Declension of drama
          neuter
          gender           		singular plural
          indefinite definite indefinite definite
          nominative drama dramaet dramaer dramaerne
          genitive dramas dramaets dramaers dramaernes

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          Dutch

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          Borrowed from Late Latin drāma, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma).

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          drama n (plural drama's, diminutive dramaatje n)

          1. drama (theatrical work; anything involving play acting)
          2. something tragic, a tragedy

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          drama n (genitive singular drama, nominative plural drömu)

          1. drama

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          Declension of drama (neuter)
          singular plural
          indefinite definite indefinite definite
          nominative drama dramað drömu drömun
          accusative drama dramað drömu drömun
          dative drama dramanu drömum drömunum
          genitive drama dramans drama dramanna

          Indonesian

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          From Dutch drama, from Late Latin drāma, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma). Doublet of dorama.

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          drama (plural drama-drama)

          1. drama:
            1. a composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue
            2. theatrical plays in general
              Synonyms: sandiwara, teater, tonil
          2. (colloquial) tragedy, a disastrous event, especially one involving great loss of life or injury
            Synonym: tragedi

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          Irish

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          drama m (genitive singular drama, nominative plural dramaí)

          1. Cois Fharraige form of dráma

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          Declension of drama (fourth declension)
          bare forms
          singular plural
          nominative drama dramaí
          vocative a dhrama a dhramaí
          genitive drama dramaí
          dative drama dramaí
          forms with the definite article
          singular plural
          nominative an drama na dramaí
          genitive an drama na ndramaí
          dative leis an drama
          don drama           		leis na dramaí

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          Mutated forms of drama
          radical lenition eclipsis
          drama dhrama ndrama

          Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
          All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

          Latin

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            Borrowed from Ancient Greek δρᾶμᾰ (drâmă, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”).

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            drāma n (genitive drāmatis); third declension

            1. drama, play

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            Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

            singular plural
            nominative drāma drāmata
            genitive drāmatis drāmatum
            dative drāmatī drāmatibus
            accusative drāma drāmata
            ablative drāmate drāmatibus
            vocative drāma drāmata

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            • “drama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
            • "drama", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
            • “drama”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
            • “drama”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
            • drama in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

            Maltese

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            Ultimately Latin drama. Doublet of dramm.

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            drama f

            1. dramatic art
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            Norwegian Bokmål

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            Etymology

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            From Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”).

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            drama n (definite singular dramaet, indefinite plural drama or dramaer, definite plural dramaene)

            1. a drama

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            Norwegian Nynorsk

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            From Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma).

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            drama n (definite singular dramaet, indefinite plural drama, definite plural dramaa)

            1. (countable or uncountable) a drama

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            Historical inflection of drama
            singular plural
            indefinite definite indefinite definite
            1982 drama, dramaa [dramai]
            2012 (current) drama dramaet drama dramaa
            • Forms in italics are currently considered non-standard.
            • Forms in [brackets] were official, but considered second-tier.

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            Old Galician-Portuguese

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            From Medieval Latin dragma, from Classical Latin drachma, from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ). First attested in the 1409-1420.

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            drama f (plural dramas)

            1. drachma
              • 1409, G. Pérez Barcala, editor, A tradución galega do "Liber de medicina equorum" de Joradanus Ruffus, Santiago de Compostela: USC, page 175:
                filla tres dramas de cravos girofes e tres onças de galingal e outro tanto de cardomomo e outro tanto de gengivre e outro tanto d’alcoravina e outro tanto de canela, e a semente do fuuncho en maior contia destas todas.
                take three drachmas of clove, and three ounces of galangal, and as much of cardamom, and as much of ginger, and as much of caraway, and as much of cinnamon, and seeds of fennel in the largest amount of them all

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            • Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “drama”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

            Polish

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            Etymology

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            Borrowed from French drame, from Latin drama, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma).[1] First attested in 1728.[2] Doublet of dramat.

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            drama f

            1. (drama) drama (composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue)
              Synonym: dramat
            2. (literary, theater) drama (type of play)
              Synonym: dramat
            3. (education) roleplay (style of teaching where people act according to an assigned role)
            4. (colloquial) drama (situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play)

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            Declension of drama
            singular plural
            nominative drama dramy
            genitive dramy dram
            dative dramie dramom
            accusative dramę dramy
            instrumental dramą dramami
            locative dramie dramach
            vocative dramo dramy

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            1. ^ Mirosław Bańko; Lidia Wiśniakowska (2021), “drama”, in Wielki słownik wyrazów obcych, →ISBN
            2. ^ Wiesław Morawski (13.06.2019), “DRAMA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]

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            Portuguese

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            Etymology

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            From Late Latin drāma, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”). Doublet of dorama.

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            • Rhymes: -ɐmɐ
            • Hyphenation: dra‧ma

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            drama m (plural dramas)

            1. drama (composition)
            2. drama (theatrical play)
            3. drama (dramatic situation), big deal, fuss, scene
              Para de fazer drama. ― Stop making a scene.

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            drama m (genitive singular drama, plural dramaichean)

            1. alternative form of dram

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            drama

            1. genitive singular of dram

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            • IPA(key): /drâma/
            • Hyphenation: dra‧ma

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            drȁma f (Cyrillic spelling дра̏ма)

            1. drama

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            Declension of drama
            singular plural
            nominative drȁma drame
            genitive drame drȃmā
            dative drami dramama
            accusative dramu drame
            vocative dramo drame
            locative drami dramama
            instrumental dramom dramama

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            Borrowed from Latin drama, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma). Cognate with English drama.

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            • IPA(key): /ˈdɾama/ [ˈd̪ɾa.ma]
            • Rhymes: -ama
            • Syllabification: dra‧ma

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            drama m (plural dramas)

            1. drama (genre in art, film, theatre and literature or a work of said genre)
            2. drama, tragedy, plight (quality of intense or high emotion or situation of enormous gravity that heightens such emotions)
              Synonym: tragedia
            3. drama (theatre studies)
              Synonym: teatro
            4. play (work of theatre)
              Synonym: obra
            5. big deal, fuss, scene
              Synonyms: gran cosa, escándalo, escena

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            Borrowed from English drama.

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            drama class IX (plural drama class X)

            1. drama

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            drama n

            1. a drama

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            Declension of drama
            nominative genitive
            singular indefinite drama dramas
            definite dramat dramats
            plural indefinite dramer dramers
            definite dramerna dramernas

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            Tagalog

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            Borrowed from Spanish drama.

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            drama (Baybayin spelling ᜇ᜔ᜇᜋ)

            1. drama; stage play
              Synonym: dula
            2. theatrics; histrionics
              Synonym: kaartehan

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            Borrowed from Russian дра́ма (dráma).

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            drama

            1. drama (theatre)

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            Inflection of drama (inflection type 5/sana)
            nominative sing. drama
            genitive sing. draman
            partitive sing. dramad
            partitive plur. dramoid
            singular plural
            nominative drama dramad
            accusative draman dramad
            genitive draman dramoiden
            partitive dramad dramoid
            essive-instructive draman dramoin
            translative dramaks dramoikš
            inessive dramas dramoiš
            elative dramaspäi dramoišpäi
            illative dramaha dramoihe
            adessive dramal dramoil
            ablative dramalpäi dramoilpäi
            allative dramale dramoile
            abessive dramata dramoita
            comitative dramanke dramoidenke
            prolative dramadme dramoidme
            approximative I dramanno dramoidenno
            approximative II dramannoks dramoidennoks
            egressive dramannopäi dramoidennopäi
            terminative I dramahasai dramoihesai
            terminative II dramalesai dramoilesai
            terminative III dramassai —
            additive I dramahapäi dramoihepäi
            additive II dramalepäi dramoilepäi

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            • Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “драма”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[6], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

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            From Late Latin drāma, from Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma, “an act, a theatrical act, a play”), from δράω (dráō, “to act, to take action, to achieve”).

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            drama f (plural dramâu)

            1. drama, play

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            Mutated forms of drama
            radical soft nasal aspirate
            drama ddrama nrama unchanged

            Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
            All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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