drama

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See also: Drama and dráma

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

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  • Hyphenation: dra‧ma
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑːmə

Noun

drama (usually uncountable, plural dramas or dramata)

  1. A composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue
  2. Such a work for television, radio or the cinema (usually one that is not a comedy)
  3. Theatrical plays in general
  4. A situation in real life that has the characteristics of such a theatrical play
    • 2018 July 8, Euan McKirdy & Hilary Whiteman, “Thai cave rescue: Divers enter cave to free boys”, in edition.cnn.com‎[1], CNN, retrieved 2018-07-08:
      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.
  5. (slang) Rumor, lying or exaggerated reaction to life events; melodrama; an angry dispute or scene; intrigue or spiteful interpersonal maneuvering.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Arabic: دْرَامَا (drāmā)
  • → Cebuano: drama
  • → Japanese: ドラマ (dorama)
  • → Korean: 드라마 (deurama)
  • → Malay: drama

Translations

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

drama m (plural drames)

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

References

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ, “a drachma”).

Noun

drama f (plural drames)

  1. Obsolete spelling of dracma.

Cebuano

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: dra‧ma

Noun

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

Verb

drama

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

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:drama.

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

drama n

  1. drama (composition intended for actors)

Further reading

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

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

Descendants

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Noun

drama n (genitive singular drama, no plural)

  1. drama

Declension

    Declension of drama
n-w singular
indefinite definite
nominative drama dramað
accusative drama dramað
dative drama dramanu
genitive drama dramans

Irish

Pronunciation

Noun

drama m (genitive singular drama, nominative plural dramaí)

  1. Cois Fharraige form of dráma

Declension

Declension of drama

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative drama dramaí
Vocative a dhrama a dhramaí
Genitive drama dramaí
Dative drama dramaí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an drama na dramaí
Genitive an drama na ndramaí
Dative leis an drama

don drama

leis na dramaí

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
drama dhrama ndrama
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

drāma n (genitive drāmatis); third declension

  1. drama, play

Declension

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

Case Singular Plural
Nominative drāma drāmata
Genitive drāmatis drāmatum
Dative drāmatī drāmatibus
Accusative drāma drāmata
Ablative drāmate drāmatibus
Vocative drāma drāmata

Descendants

References

  • “drama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • drama in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s 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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

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

Noun

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

  1. a drama

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma).

Noun

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

  1. a drama

Derived terms

References

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Noun

drama m (plural s)

  1. drama (composition)
  2. drama (theatrical play)
  3. drama (dramatic situation)

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

drama m (genitive singular drama, plural dramaichean)

  1. Alternative form of dràm

Noun

drama

  1. genitive singular of dràm

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

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

Noun

drȁma f (Cyrillic spelling дра̏ма)

  1. drama

Declension

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

Spanish

Etymology

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

Noun

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)
  3. drama (theatre studies)
  4. play (work of theatre)
  5. big deal, fuss, scene

Synonyms

Derived terms

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

drama n

  1. a drama

Declension

Declension of drama 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative drama dramat dramer dramerna
Genitive dramas dramats dramers dramernas

Anagrams

Veps

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian дра́ма (dráma).

Noun

drama

  1. drama (theatre)

Inflection

Template:vep-decl-stems

References

  • Zajceva, N. G., Mullonen, M. I. (2007) “драма”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary]‎[3], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Welsh

Pronunciation

Noun

drama f (plural dramâu)

  1. drama, play

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
drama ddrama nrama unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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