بام

See also: تام

Pashto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɑm/

Noun

بام • (bām) m

1. top of the house
2. roof
   • "Sandara"

     ته چې په بام بندې ولاړه وې ته چا ته کتل. خلک زما په ننداره وو چې ما تا ته کتل

     When you [feminine] were standing on the roof, who were you looking at ? People were observing my spectacle that I was looking at you.

Declension

	singular		plural
direct	بام (bām)		بامونه (bāmuna)
oblique	بام (bām)		بامونو (bāmuno)
vocative	بامه (bāma)		بامونو (bāmuno)

declension of بام

Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [bɑːm]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bɑːm]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [bɑːm]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [bɑːm]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [bɔːm]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [bɒːm]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [bɔm]

Readings
Classical reading?	bām
Dari reading?	bām
Iranian reading?	bâm
Tajik reading?	bom

• Audio (Iran):

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Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (bʾn /⁠bān⁠/, “roof, rooftop”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to clothe, wear, put on”). Compare Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬢𐬵𐬀𐬥𐬀 (vaŋhana), 𐬬𐬀𐬢𐬵𐬁𐬥𐬀 (vaŋhāna, “cover”).

Alternative forms

• بان (bân), بون (bun)

Noun

Dari	بام
Iranian Persian
Tajik	бом

بام • (bâm)

1. roof

Derived terms

• پشت‌بام (pošt-e-bâm, “rooftop”)

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

Dari	بام
Iranian Persian
Tajik	бом

بام • (bâm)

1. dawn
2. gleam, sheen, shimmer, tinge, hue, color

   Alternative forms: فام (fâm), پام (pâm), وام (wâm)

   سپید بام ― sepid bâm ― of a whitish colour

   گل‌فام ― gol-fâm ― rosy

   ستاره بام ― setâre bâm ― Lucifer; the morning star

Further reading

• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “بام”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 183a
• Vullers, Johann August (1855) “پام”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎ (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 324a
• Vullers, Johann August (1870) “بام”, in Institutiones linguae persicae cum sanscrita et zendica lingua comparatae‎ (in Latin), Gießen: W. Keller, page 232 Nr. 42