# دام
## Arabic
### Verb

دَامَ • (dāma) I (non-past يَدُومُ (yadūmu), verbal noun دَوْم (dawm) or دَوَام (dawām) or دَيْمُومَة (daymūma))
* to last, to endure
    Synonym: بَقِيَ (baqiya)
    مَا دَامَ ٱلنَّجَاحُ مُهِمًّا فَيَجِبُ أَنْ أَنْجَحَ.mā dāma n-najāḥu muhimman fayajibu ʔan ʔanjaḥa.As long as success is important, I have to succeed.
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 11:108:وَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ سُعِدُوا فَفِي الْجَنَّةِ خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا مَا دَامَتِ السَّمَاوَاتُ وَالْأَرْضُ إِلَّا مَا شَاءَ رَبُّكَ ۖ عَطَاءً غَيْرَ مَجْذُوذٍwaʔammā llaḏīna suʕidū fafī l-jannati ḵālidīna fīhā mā dāmati as-samāwātu wālʔarḍu ʔillā mā šāʔa rabbuka ʕaṭāʔan ḡayra majḏūḏin(please add an English translation of this quotation)

#### Descendants

* Maltese: dam, diem
* → Swahili: dumu

#### See also

* مَا دَامَ (mā dāma)

### Adjective

دامٍ • (dāmin) m (animate masculine plural دَامُونَ (dāmūna), inanimate masculine plural دَوَامٍ (dawāmin), feminine plural دَامٍيَات (dāmiyāt) or دَوَامٍ (dawāmin))
* bleeding

## Khalaj
### Noun

دام (dâam) (definite accusative دامؽ, plural داملار)
* Arabic spelling of dâam (“roof”)

#### Declension
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

From Persian دام (dâm, “snare, trap”).

#### Noun

دام • (dam)
* net, trap, snare, for catching game
    Synonyms: (net) آغ (ağ), شبكه (şebeke)
* (figuratively) trap laid for a person
* the vanities of life, the lusts of the flesh

##### Derived terms

* دامكاه (damgah, “place of traps and snares”)
* دامی (dami, “pertaining to a trap or snare”)

### Etymology 2

From Persian دام (dâm, “livestock, domesticated animals”).

#### Noun

دام • (dam)
* any wild animal that does not attack or prey on others

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

دام • (dam)
* Alternative spelling of طام (dam, “roof”)

### Further reading

* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دام”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 562
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Rete”, 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 1477
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دام”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, columns 2009–2010
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دام”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 883

## Persian
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [dɑːm]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪ɑːm]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪ɑːm]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [d̪ɑːm]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [d̪ɔːm]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d̪ɒːm]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [d̪ɔm]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *dáHma (compare Sanskrit दामन् (dā́man, “string, cord, rope, fetter”)), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₁-mn̥, from Proto-Indo-European *deh₁- (“to bind”).

#### Noun

دام • (dâm)
* snare, trap
    Synonym: تله (tale)
    به دام افتادن ― be dâm oftâdan ― to get trapped (literally, “to fall in a trap”)
    به دام انداختن ― be dâm andâxtan ― to trap, ensnare (literally, “to throw into a trap”)

### Etymology 2

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dʾm /⁠dām⁠/, “tame animal”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to tame, dominate”). Cognates include Sanskrit दाम्यति (dāmyati), Ancient Greek δαμνάω (damnáō), and Latin domō.

#### Noun

دام • (dâm)
* livestock
* any domesticated animals and livestock such as sheep, cows, goats, dogs, cats, etc
    Antonym: دَد (dad, “wild animals”)

##### Derived terms

* دامدار (dâmdar, “cowhand, pastoralist”)
* دامداری (dâmdari, “pastoralism”)

#### References

* MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “²dām”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 24
* Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume 2, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 322

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from French dames.

#### Noun

دام • (dâm)
* draughts, checkers

#### References

* Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “دام”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press

## Urdu
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /d̪ɑːm/

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀫𑁆𑀫 (damma, “coin”), from Sanskrit द्रम्म (dramma), from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /d̪ɑːm/

#### Noun

دام • (dām) m (Hindi spelling दाम)
* price, value, cost
    Synonyms: مولیہ (mūlya), قیمت (qīmat)
    دوردرشن انچے یا سستے داموں پر خریدوdūrdarśan ū̃ce yā saste dāmõ par xarīdẽBuy TV at a high or cheap prices

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Inherited from Prakrit दाम (dāma), from Sanskrit दाम (dāma, “rope”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /d̪ɑːm/

#### Noun

دام • (dām) m or f (Hindi spelling दाम)
* rope

##### Declension
### Etymology 3

From Classical Persian دام (dām, “trap, snare”).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /d̪ɑːm/

#### Noun

دام • (dām) ?
* trap; snare; net

##### Derived terms

* دامِ حُس٘ن (dām-e-husn, “trap of beauty”)

### References

* “دام”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Platts, John T. (1884) “دام”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 502
* Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dramma”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 378
* Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dāˊman”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 360

## Ushojo
### Etymology

From Persian دام (dâm).

### Noun

دام (dām)
* a net made of thread for catching birds