Dam

From Fresh Dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.1.1 Homophones 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.2 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.4 Abbreviation 2 Danish 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Derived terms 2.2 Noun 3 Norwegian 3.1 Noun 4 Swedish 4.1 Noun 5 Turkish 5.1 Noun

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dæm/

Homophones

• damn

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch, Middle Low German dam.

Noun

Singular dam

Plural dams

1. structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow

Translations

Finnish: pato Estonian: tamm

German: Damm m. Polish: tama f. Telugu: వంతెన (vamtena)

Etymology 2

Abbreviation of dame.

Noun

Singular dam

Plural dams

1. mother, generally regarding breeding of animals (cf. sire)

Abbreviation

dam

1. decametre, decameter

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Danish

Noun

dam c.

1. pond

Derived terms

• dambrug n.

Noun

dam n.

1. draughts

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Norwegian

Noun

Dam m. (definite singular dammen; indefinite plural dammer; definite plural dammene)

1. pond

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Swedish

Noun

dam (utrum)

  dam | damer
damen | damerna

1. lady, woman
2. (playing cards): queen

   Ruter dam = Queen of diamonds

3. (chess): queen

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Turkish

Noun

dam

1. rooffr:dam

io:dam it:dam hu:dam nl:dam pl:dam fi:dam ta:dam zh:dam