dama

See also: Dama, dáma, Dáma, damá, damà, dàmá, Dàmǎ, dāma, dāmā, dâma, dàmā, dǎmǎ, damă, damą, də́ma, ɗama, damaʼ, and dama-

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English

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Etymology

Compare Turkish dama, Northern Kurdish دامە (dame). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

dama (uncountable)

1. The game of Turkish draughts.

See also

• dama gazelle
• dama wallaby

Anagrams

• A.A.M.D., Adam

Asturian

Noun

dama f (plural dames)

1. (chess) queen

See also

Chess pieces in Asturian · pieces d'axedrez (layout · text)
rei	dama, reina	torre	alfil	caballu	peón

Bambara

Etymology

Cognate with Eastern Maninkakan dàma.

Noun

dama

1. number, quantity
2. limit

Adverb

dama

1. only

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French dame, from Latin domina. Doublet of dona.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈda.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈda.ma]

Noun

dama f (plural dames)

1. lady (graceful, elegant or noble woman)
2. (chess) queen
3. (in the plural) checkers (US), draughts (UK)

See also

Chess pieces in Catalan · peces d'escacs (layout · text)
rei	reina, dama	torre	alfil	cavall	peó

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish damas.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: da‧ma

Noun

dama

1. the game of checkers
2. (checkers) a king
3. a demijohn

Verb

dama

1. (checkers) to crown a king

Cornish

Noun

dama f (plural damyow)

1. mother, dam

Synonyms

• mamm/mabm

Derived terms

• dama-wydn

See also

• sira/syra

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da.ma/
• Homophones: damas, damât

Verb

dama

1. third-person singular past historic of damer

Anagrams

• Adam

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from French dame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdama/ [ˈd̪a.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Hyphenation: da‧ma

Noun

dama f (plural damas)

1. lady, dame, woman of high status
2. (chess) queen

   Synonym: raíña

See also

Chess pieces in Galician · pezas de xadrez (layout · text)
rei	dama, raíña	torre, roque	alfil	cabalo	peón

Garo

Etymology

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

Noun

dama

1. drum

Hausa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dáː.máː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [dáː.máː]

Noun

dāmā f (possessed form dāmar̃)

1. chance, opportunity, possibility
2. equal, something comparable
3. improvement

References

• Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 41.

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaːma/
• Rhymes: -aːma

Noun

dama f (genitive singular dömu, nominative plural dömur)

1. lady (also used as a third person address)

   Hvað má bjóða dömunni?

   What may be offered the lady? (speaking to the lady herself)

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	dama	daman	dömur	dömurnar
accusative	dömu	dömuna	dömur	dömurnar
dative	dömu	dömunni	dömum	dömunum
genitive	dömu	dömunnar	dama	damanna

Declension of dama (feminine)

Derived terms

• dömur mínar og herrar

See also

• frú
• lafði

Anagrams

• Adam

Ilocano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish damas.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: da‧ma
• IPA^(key): /ˈdama/

Noun

dama

1. (board games) checkers (US); draughts (UK)

Derived terms

• agdama
• pagdamaan

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.ma/
• Rhymes: -ama
• Hyphenation: dà‧ma

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French dame. Doublet of donna.

Noun

dama f (plural dame)

1. lady
2. (board games, in the singular) draughts/checkers
3. king (in draughts/checkers)
4. draughtboard/checkerboard
5. queen (playing card)

Synonyms

• (lady): donna (archaic), lady, signora

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: دامه (dama)
  • Turkish: dama
  • → Armenian: տամա (tama)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

dama

1. inflection of damare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• Adam

Jamamadí

Verb

dama

1. (Banawá) to hold securely

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Japanese

Romanization

dama

1. Rōmaji transcription of だま
2. Rōmaji transcription of ダマ

Kashubian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.ma/
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: da‧ma

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Polish dama.

Noun

dama f

1. lady

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Damm. Doublet of tama, a form borrowed from Polish. Compare Slovincian dama.

Noun

dama f

1. dam

Further reading

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “tama”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “dama”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
• “dama”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Latin

Noun

dāma f (genitive dāmae); first declension

1. Alternative form of damma (“fallow deer”)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	dāma	dāmae
genitive	dāmae	dāmārum
dative	dāmae	dāmīs
accusative	dāmam	dāmās
ablative	dāmā	dāmīs
vocative	dāma	dāmae

References

• “dama”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• dama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.