# dream
## English
### Alternative forms

* dreame (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English drem, from Old English drēam (“music, joy”), from Proto-West Germanic *draum, from Proto-Germanic *draumaz, from earlier *draugmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrowgʰ-mos, from *dʰrewgʰ- (“to deceive, injure, damage”).
The sense of "dream", though not attested in Old English, may still have been present (compare Old Saxon drōm (“bustle, revelry, jubilation", also "dream”)), and was undoubtedly reinforced later in Middle English by Old Norse draumr (“dream”), from same Proto-Germanic root.
Cognate with Scots dreme (“dream”), North Frisian drom (“dream”), West Frisian dream (“dream”), Low German Droom, Dutch droom (“dream”), German Traum (“dream”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål drøm, Norwegian Nynorsk draum, Swedish dröm (“dream”), Icelandic draumur (“dream”). Related also to Old Norse draugr (“ghost, undead, spectre”), Dutch bedrog (“deception, deceit”), German Trug (“deception, illusion”).
The derivation from Old English drēam is controversial, since the word itself is only attested in writing in its meaning of “joy, mirth, musical sound”. Possibly there was a separate word drēam meaning “images seen while sleeping”, which was avoided in literature due to potential confusion with the “joy” sense. Otherwise, the modern sense must have been borrowed from another Germanic language, most probably Old Norse. Since this is the common sense in all Germanic languages outside the British isles, a spontaneous development from “joy, mirth” to “dream” in Middle English is hardly conceivable. In Old Saxon, the cognate drōm did mean “dream”, but was a rare word.
Attested words for “sleeping vision” in Old English, both of which appeared in The Dream of the Rood, were mǣting (Middle English mæte, mete), from an unclear source, and swefn (Modern English sweven), from Proto-Germanic *swefnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *swepno-, *swep-; compare Ancient Greek ὕπνος (húpnos, “sleep”).
The verb is from Middle English dremen, possibly (see above) from Old English drīeman (“to make a joyous sound with voice or with instrument; rejoice; sing a song; play on an instrument”), from Proto-Germanic *draumijaną, *draugmijaną (“to be festive, dream, hallucinate”), from the noun. Cognate with Scots dreme (“to dream”), West Frisian dreame (“to dream”), Dutch dromen (“to dream”), German träumen (“to dream”), Swedish drömma (“to dream, muse”), Icelandic dreyma (“to dream”).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: drēm, IPA: /dɹiːm/, [d͡ʒɹʷiːm], [d̠͡ɹ̠˔ʷiːm]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -iːm

### Noun

dream (plural dreams)
* Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.
    Synonym: (archaic) sweven
    Hyponym: nightmare
    have a dream
    scary dream
    vivid dream
    erotic dream
    feel like a dream
    be in a dream
** 1700, [John] Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox: Or, The Tale of the Nun’s Priest, from Chaucer”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:Dreams are but interludes which fancy makes.
** 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.
** 1982, “Mad World”, in Roland Orzabal (lyrics), The Hurting, performed by Tears for Fears:And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
* (figurative) A hope or wish.
    have a dream
    fulfil a dream
    harbour a dream
    realize a dream
** 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
** 1963 August 28, Martin Luther King, I have a Dream‎:I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream today!
** 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in AV Club:Ralph Wiggum is generally employed as a bottomless fount of glorious non sequiturs, but in “I Love Lisa” he stands in for every oblivious chump who ever deluded himself into thinking that with persistence, determination, and a pure heart he can win the girl of his dreams.
** 2010, Jonathan Green, Murder in the High Himalaya: Loyalty, Tragedy, and Escape from Tibet‎, 1st edition (Politics), PublicAffairs, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 33:More likely than capture is death at the hands of Chinese border police. Killings like that of fifteen-year-old Yeshe Dundrub, shot at night in Saga County (Ch: Saga Xian) in November 1999, while fleeing with forty others to Nepal, are covered up when possible. (Dundrub, whose dream was to be a monk, died in a military hospital bed nine hours after he was shot.)
* A visionary scheme; a wild conceit; an idle fancy.
    Synonym: vision
    live in a dream
    wake up from a dream
    impossible dream
    a dream of bliss
    the dream of his youth
** c. 1735, Alexander Pope, John Donne's Satires Versified:There sober thought pursued the amusing theme, Till Fancy coloured it and formed a dream.
** 1870, John Shairp, Culture and Religion:It is not, then, a mere dream, but a very real aim which they propose.

#### Derived terms

* African dream herb
* American dream
* beyond one's wildest dreams
* cheese dream
* daydream
* dream board
* dreamboat
* dreambound
* dream catcher
* dreamcatcher
* dreamchild
* dream come true
* dreamcore
* dreamery
* dream factory
* dream feed
* dreamfish
* dreamful
* dreamgirl
* dreamhole
* dream house
* dreamish
* dreamland
* dreamless
* dreamlet
* dream life
* dreamlife
* dreamlike
* dreamlining
* dream list
* dreammate
* dream pop
* dreamscape
* dreamself
* dreamsign
* dreamsome
* dreamster
* dream team
* dream trance
* dream vision
* dreamward
* dreamware
* dreamwork
* dreamworker
* dreamworld
* dreamworthy
* dreamwrapt
* dreamy
* dream yoga
* fever dream
* foredream
* go like a dream
* impossible dream
* Indian's dream
* in one's wildest dreams
* interdream
* in your dreams
* in your wildest dreams
* like a dream
* live the dream
* lucid dream
* manic pixie dream girl
* nightdream
* nondream
* pipe dream
* teamwork makes the dream work
* waking dream
* wet dream
* work like a dream

#### Translations

Abkhaz: аԥхыӡ (apxədz)
Acehnese: lumpoë
Adyghe: пщӏыхьапӏэ (pśʼəḥapʼɛ)
Afrikaans: droom (af)
Aguaruna: kaha
Ainu: タラㇷ゚ (tarap)
Albanian: ëndërr (sq) f
Arabic: حُلْم (ar) m (ḥulm), رُؤْيَا f (ruʔyā), مَنام m (manām)
Egyptian Arabic: حلم m (ḥélem)
Hijazi Arabic: حلم m (ḥílim)
North Levantine Arabic: حلم m (ḥélem)
South Levantine Arabic: حلم m (ḥélem, ḥúlum)
Aramaic:
Classical Syriac: ܚܠܡܐ m (ḥelmā)
Armenian: երազ (hy) (eraz), անուրջ (hy) (anurǰ)
Assamese: সপোন (xopün)
Asturian: suañu m
Avar: макьу (makkˡʼu)
Azerbaijani: röya, yuxu (az)
Baluchi: واب (wáb)
Bashkir: төш (töş)
Basque: amets (eu)
Bavarian: Draam
Belarusian: сон m (son), сне́нне n (snjénnje), сьне́ньне n (sʹnjénʹnje) (Taraškievica)
Bengali: স্বপ্ন (bn) (śopno), খোয়াব (bn) (khōẇab)
Bikol Central: pangiturog
Breton: hunvre (br) m
Buginese: nipi
Bulgarian: сън (bg) m (sǎn)
Burmese: အိပ်မက် (my) (ipmak)
Catalan: somni (ca) m
Cebuano: damgo
Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵜⴰⵡⴰⵔⴳⵉⵜ f (tawargit)
Chechen: гIан (ğan)
Chepang: माङः (mang')
Cherokee: ᎠᏍᎩᏘᏍᏗ (asgitisdi)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 夢 / 梦 (yue) (mung$^6$)
Mandarin: 夢 / 梦 (zh) (mèng)
Classical Nahuatl: temictli
Czech: sen (cs) m
Danish: drøm (da) c
Dongxiang: zhaojin
Drung: mlvng
Dutch: droom (nl) m
Egyptian: (rswt f)
Esperanto: sonĝo
Estonian: unenägu
Even: толкун (tolkun)
Evenki: толкин (tolkin)
Faroese: dreymur m
Finnish: uni (fi)
French: rêve (fr) m, songe (fr) m
Friulian: sium m, insium m
Galician: soño (gl) m
Garo: জুমাং (dźu-maŋ)
Georgian: სიზმარი (sizmari)
German: Traum (de) m
Greek: όνειρο (el) n (óneiro), ενύπνιο (el) n (enýpnio)
Ancient: ὄνειρος m (óneiros), ἐνύπνιον n (enúpnion)
Guaraní: ke
Gujarati: સ્વપ્ન (svapna)
Haitian Creole: rèv
Hawaiian: moeʻuhane, moe
Hebrew: חֲלוֹם (he) m (khalóm)
Higaonon: damugo
Hiligaynon: damgo
Hindi: सपना (hi) m (sapnā), ख़्वाब (hi) m (xvāb)
Hungarian: álom (hu)
Hunsrik: Draum m
Icelandic: draumur (is) m
Ido: sonjo (io)
Indonesian: mimpi (id)
Ingrian: uni
Irish: brionglóid (ga) f, taibhreamh m
Istriot: sugno m
Italian: sogno (it) m
Jamaican Creole: jriim
Japanese: 夢 (ja) (ゆめ, yume)
Kabardian: пщӏыхь (kbd) (pśʼəḥ)
Kabyle: targit f
Kannada: ಕನಸು (kn) (kanasu), ಸ್ವಪ್ನ (kn) (svapna)
Kapampangan: pananinap
Kazakh: түс (kk) (tüs)
Khmer: សប្តិ (sɑp), ការយល់សប្តិ (kaa yŭəl sɑp), សុបិន (km) (sobən), មមាល (km) (mɔmiəl)
Khowar: خوشپ (xošp)
Kikuyu: kĩroto class 7
Komi-Permyak: он (on)
Komi-Zyrian: ун (un)
Korean: 꿈 (ko) (kkum)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: خەون (xewn)
Northern Kurdish: xewn (ku) f
Kyrgyz: түш (ky) (tüş)
Lao: ຝັນ (fan)
Latgalian: sapyns
Latin: somnium n, nox (la) f
Latvian: sapnis (lv) m
Laz: იზმოჯე (izmoce)
Lithuanian: sãpnas (lt) m
Lombard: sogn (lmo) m
Luganda: ekilooto
Lushootseed: sqəlalitut
Luxembourgish: Dram m
Macedonian: сон m (son)
Makasar: cini
Malay: mimpi (ms)
Malayalam: കിനാവ് (ml) (kināvŭ), സ്വപ്നം (ml) (svapnaṁ)
Maltese: ħolma (mt) f
Manchu: ᡨᠣᠯᡤᡳᠨ (tolgin)
Maori: moemoeā, tahakura (involving the appearance of someone who has died), maruāpō, marupō
Marathi: स्वप्न n (svapna)
Mari:
Eastern Mari: омо (omo)
Middle English: drem, sweven
Middle French: resve m
Middle Korean: ᄭᅮᆷ〮 (skwúm)
Mirandese: suonho
Mizo: mang
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: зүүд (mn) (züüd)
Mpade: sware
Mwani: nloto
Nanai: толкин (tolkin)
Navajo: naʼiidzeeł
Nepali: सपना (sapanā)
North Frisian: Droom c (Sylt)
Northern Mansi: ӯлем (ūlem)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: drøm (no) m
Nynorsk: draum m
Occitan: sòmi (oc) m
Odia: ସ୍ୱପ୍ନ (swapna)
Okinawan: 夢 (imi)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: сънъ m (sŭnŭ)
Old English: swefn n
Old Japanese: 夢 (ime$_2$)
Old Javanese: ipi
Old Norse: draumr
Old Saxon: drom
Oromo: abjuu
Osage: hǫ́bre
Ossetian: фын (fyn)
Pali: supina
Pela: ja̠p⁵⁵ maʔ⁵⁵
Persian:
Iranian Persian: خواب (fa) (xâb), رُؤْیا (ro'yâ)
Piedmontese: seugn m
Plautdietsch: Droom (nds) m
Polish: sen (pl) m
Portuguese: sonho (pt) m
Romani: suno m
Romanian: vis (ro) n
Romansch: siemi m (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan), semi m (Surmiran), sömmi m (Puter, Vallader)
Russian: сон (ru) m (son), сновиде́ние (ru) n (snovidénije), грёза (ru) f (grjóza)
Sami:
Kildin Sami: нагерь (nagjer’)
Sanskrit: स्वप्न (sa) (svapna)
Sardinian: bisu
Scottish Gaelic: bruadar m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: са̏н m, сно̀виђе̄ње n
Roman: sȁn (sh) m, snòviđēnje (sh) n
Shona: chiroto
Sicilian: sonnu (scn) m
Sinhalese: ස්වප්න (swapna)
Slovak: sen m
Slovene: sanje (sl) f pl
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: cowanje n
Upper Sorbian: són m
Spanish: sueño (es) m, ensueño (es) m
Swahili: ndoto (sw)
Swedish: dröm (sv) c
Tagalog: panaginip
Tajik: хоб (tg) (xob), рӯъё (rüʾyo)
Tamil: கனவு (ta) (kaṉavu)
Tarifit: tarjit f, tirja f pl
Tashelhit: tawargit f
Tat: xo, xo
Tatar: төш (tt) (töş)
Telugu: కల (te) (kala), స్వప్నము (te) (svapnamu)
Thai: ฝัน (th) (fǎn)
Tibetan: རྨི་ལམ (rmi lam), གཉིད་ལམ (gnyid lam)
Turkish: rüya (tr), düş (tr)
Turkmen: düýş
Tuvan: дүш (düş)
Udmurt: ум (um)
Ukrainian: сон (uk) m (son), сновиді́ння n (snovydínnja)
Urdu: خْوَاب m (xvāb), سَپْنا m (sapnā)
Uyghur: چۈش (ug) (chüsh)
Uzbek: tush (uz)
Venetan: insonjo m
Vietnamese: giấc mơ (vi)
Waray-Waray: i-nop
Welsh: breuddwyd (cy) m or f
West Frisian: dream (fy)
White Hmong: npau, npau suav
Yagnobi: хун (xun)
Yiddish: חלום m (kholem)
Yucatec Maya: wayakʼ, náay
Zulu: iphupho class 5/6 :
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### Verb

dream (third-person singular simple present dreams, present participle dreaming, simple past and past participle dreamed or dreamt)
* (intransitive) To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping.
    Last night I dreamed I was leaping over giant cupcakes and chocolate cookies.
** 1859, Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia, page 1:Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry, "Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry."
* (intransitive) To hope, to wish.
    Lucy dreams of becoming a scientist when she'll grow up.
* (intransitive) To daydream.
    Stop dreaming and get back to work.
* (transitive) To envision as an imaginary experience (usually when asleep).
    I dreamed a vivid dream last night.
** 1782–1785, William Cowper, “(please specify the page)”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC:And still they dream that they shall still succeed.
** 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:At length in sleep their bodies they compose, / And dreamt the future fight, and early rose.
* (intransitive) To consider the possibility (of).
    I wouldn't dream of snubbing you in public.
** c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], lines 167-8:There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
** 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. […] The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window […], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.

#### Usage notes

* "Dreamt" is less common than "dreamed" in both US and UK English in current usage, though somewhat more prevalent in the UK than in the US.
* As with say and think, the argument of the intransitive verb is often a bare clause, as in I dreamed I was a superhero.

#### Derived terms

* adream
* bedream
* dreamable
* dreamer
* dream on
* dream up
* outdream
* overdream
* redream
* undream

#### Translations
### Adjective

dream (not comparable)
* Ideal; perfect.
** 1975, David Bowie (lyrics and music), “Golden Years”, in Station to Station:Gonna drive back down where you once belonged / In the back of a dream car, twenty foot long
** 2014, P.G. Wodehouse, Jeeves and the Yule-Tide Spirit and Other Stories, Random House, →ISBN, page 158:If a girl who talked like that was not his dream girl, he didn't know a dream girl when he heard one.
** 2017 November 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-0 Brazil”, in BBC News‎:England found chances a rarity, although Liverpool striker Solanke almost made it a dream debut in the closing seconds, only to miscontrol at the far post.

### References

* ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “dream”, in Online Etymology Dictionary..

### Further reading

* “dream”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “dream”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Emard, derma-, m'dear, dearm, ad rem, armed, medar, derma, redam, Mader, ramed, -derma

## Irish
### Etymology

From Middle Irish dremm (“crowd, throng”), from Proto-Celtic *drexsmā, itself probably related to *drungos (“throng, host”).

### Pronunciation

* (Munster) IPA: /dˠɾˠaumˠ/, /dˠɾˠoumˠ/ (as if spelled dram)
* (Connacht) IPA: /dʲɾʲɑːmˠ/, /dʲɾʲamˠ/
* (Ulster) IPA: /dʲɾʲamˠ/

### Noun

dream m (genitive singular dreama, nominative plural dreamanna)
* crowd, group of people, party (group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity)
** 1929, Tomás Ó Criomhthain, “IV: Scolaidheacht agus Fánaidheacht”, in An t-Oileánach, page 48:Thug sé scilling do’n té ab’ fhearr is gach rang agus ar shíneadh na scillinge ’nár rang-ne ní h-aenne de’n dream mór do fuair í ach me féin.He gave a shilling to the best one in each class, and when he was giving out shillings in our class, there wasn't one in that big group who got one but me myself.

#### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
dream
dreamanna
vocative
a dhream
a dhreamanna
genitive
dreama
dreamanna
dative
dream
dreamanna
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an dream
na dreamanna
genitive
an dreama
na ndreamanna
dative
leis an dream don dream
leis na dreamanna :

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “drem(m)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Dillon, Myles, Donncha Ó Cróinín (1961) Teach Yourself Irish, Sevenoaks, England: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 224
* ↑ Ó Sé, Diarmuid (2000) Gaeilge Chorca Dhuibhne [The Irish of Corkaguiny] (in Irish), Institiúid Teangeolaíochta Éireann [Linguistics Institute of Ireland], →ISBN, section 537
* ↑ Ó Máille, T. S. (1974) Liosta Focal as Ros Muc [Word List from Rosmuck] (in Irish), Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: Irish University Press, →ISBN, page 75
* ↑ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 87
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 4, page 5

### Further reading

* Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “dream”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 260
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “dream”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Middle English
### Noun

dream
* (Early Middle English) Alternative form of drem

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* drīm, drēm, *drīem, drām

### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *draum, from Proto-Germanic *draumaz, whence also Old Frisian drām, Old Saxon drōm (“joy, music, dream”), Old High German troum, Old Norse draumr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dræ͜ɑːm/

### Noun

drēam m
* joy, pleasure, gladness, rejoicing
** 10th century, The Wanderer:Wōriað þā wīnsalo; · waldend liċġað drēame bidrorene; · duguþ eal ġecrong, wlonc bī wealle. · Sume wīġ fornōm,The wine-halls ramble; lords lie still, deprived of mirth; army completely perished, proud by the wall. The war took away some men,
* that which causes merriment: musical instrument, music, melody, song, harmony
* frenzy, ecstasy

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Derived terms

* drēamere
* drīeman
* pīpdrēam

#### Descendants

* Middle English: drem, dreme, dreem, dreeme, dream, dræm (Early Middle English)
** English: dream
** Scots: dreme

#### See also

* swefn
* mǣtan

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Middle Irish dremm (“crowd, throng”), from Proto-Celtic *drexsmā, itself probably related to *drungos (“throng, host”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /d̪̊ɾaum/
* (Wester Ross) IPA: /d̪̊ɾeːm/, /d̪̊ɾɛ̃um/

### Noun

dream m (plural dreamannan)
* kindred, tribe, company
    is rìoghail mo dhream ― royal is my race (motto of Clan MacGregor)
* (chiefly biblical) people, folk
* category

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “drem(m)”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Roy Wentworth (2003) Gaelic Words and Phrases From Wester Ross / Faclan is Abairtean à Ros an Iar, Inverness: CLÀR, →ISBN

### Further reading

* Edward Dwelly (1911) “dream”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

## West Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian drām, from Proto-West Germanic *draum, from Proto-Germanic *draumaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /drɪə̯m/

### Noun

dream c (plural dreamen, diminutive dreamke)
* dream, vision in one's sleep
** 2008, Greet Andringa, Libben reach, Friese Pers Boekerij, page 70.
    Hy koe net sliepe, want de dreamen oer syn deade maten wiene noch slimmer as wat er mei de eagen iepen seach.He couldn't sleep, because the dreams about his dead companions were even worse than what he saw with his eyes open.
* daydream
* desire, what one wishes
* delusion

#### Derived terms

* deidream

#### Related terms

* dreame

#### Further reading

* “dream”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011