# دامن
## Baluchi
### Noun

دامن • (dáman)
* skirt

## Ottoman Turkish
### Alternative forms

* دامان

### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian دامن (dâman, “skirt”).

### Noun

دامن • (damen)
* skirt, the part of a dress or robe that hangs below the waist
    Synonyms: اتك (etek), ذیل (zeyl)
* outskirts, suburb, the area surrounding a city or town
* (nautical) the lower part, bunt or clew of a sail
* (calligraphy) the tail of a letter of the alphabet

#### Derived terms

* دامنبوسی (damenbusi, “the act of kissing another's skirt”)
* دامنی (dameni, “skirtful”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: damen

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “daman3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1091
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دامن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 563
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Lacinia”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 902
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دامن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2010
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دامن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 884

## Persian
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [dɑː.man]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪ɑː.män]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪ɑː.män]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [d̪ɑː.män]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [d̪ɔː.män]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d̪ɒː.mæn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [d̪ɔ.män]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

دامن • (dâman)
* skirt

#### Related terms

* دامنه (dâmane)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian دامن (dāman).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /d̪ɑː.mən/
* Rhymes: -ən
* Hyphenation: دا‧مَن

### Noun

دامَن • (dāman) m (Hindi spelling दामन)
* (clothing) hem of a garment; skirt, petticoat
    Synonyms: آنچَل (āncal), پَلُّو (pallū)
* (geography) outskirts, edges; foothills
* (nautical) sail

#### Declension

Declension of دامن :
| | singular | plural |
| direct | دامَن (dāman) | دامَن (dāman) |
| oblique | دامَن (dāman) | دامَنوں (dāmanō̃) |
| vocative | دامَن (dāman) | دامَنو (dāmanō) |

### Further reading

* “دامن”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “دامن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “داماں”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 300
* Platts, John T. (1884) “دامن”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* John Shakespear (1834) “دامن”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
* S. W. Fallon (1879) “دامن”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.