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dam en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdɛm/ (New-Zealand)
  • (US) audio
  • [ˈdeə̯m] ~ [ˈdɛə̯m] æ-raising
  • [ˈdæːm] without æ-raising
  • /ˈdæm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈdam/ (Northern-England, Scotland, Wales)
  • audio
  • [ˈdam] ~ [ˈdäm] (Northern-England, Scotland, Wales)
  • [ˈdɛm] (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈdam/ (British, Midlands, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈdæm] ~ [ˈdam] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈdæːm/ (Australia)
  • [ˈdam] (British, Midlands, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈdæm] without æ-raising
  • /ˈdæm/ (Canada, US)
  • [ˈdeːm] ~ [ˈdɛːm] æ-raising

Etymology

From Middle English dam, from Old English *damm, from Proto-West Germanic *damm, from Proto-Germanic *dammaz.

Meanings

  1. A structure placed across a flowing body of water to stop the flow or part of the flow, generally for purposes such as retaining or diverting some of the water or retarding the release of accumulated water to avoid abrupt flooding.
    • Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins[…] 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
    • Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys. 2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8:
    • A dam is often an essential source of water to farmers of hilly country.
  2. The water reservoir resulting from placing such a structure.
    • Boats may only be used at places set aside for boating on the dam.
  3. A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band.
  4. (Australia, South-Africa) A reservoir.
  5. A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace.

Forms

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dams Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

cofferdam · gravity dam · hydroelectric dam · dambreak · ice dam · coffer-dam · earthquake dam · splash dam · shutter dam · check dam · damside · antidam · damburst · dammable · dambusting · beaver dam · damsire · sand dam · mill dam · damlike · water over the dam · dambuster · Broken Dam · dam break · coffer dam · dam failure · ice dam membrane · Beaver Dam · dam plate · bear-trap dam · Yellow Dam · dental dam

Synonyms

dental dam · oral dam

Translations (184)

kw arge (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · nn demning (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · hy պատնեշ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · zh 水壩 /水坝 (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ml അണക്കെട്ട് (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · lo ຝາຍ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · mk насип (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ba быуа (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ky дамба (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ug توغان (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · tt буа (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ka ჯებირი (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ko(structure placed across a flowing body of water) · vi đập (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ms tambak (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ro baraj (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · et pais (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · grc ἄνδηρον (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · da dæmning (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · zh бэ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ja ダム (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · de Talsperre (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · zh 水壩 /水坝 (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · de Damm (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · uz damba (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · es pesquera (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · is stífla (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · tk damba (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · myv каваз (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ml ചിറ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · uk гре́бля (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · alt плотина (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · hy ամբարտակ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · gur mõgrɛ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ml അണ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ky плотина (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · sk hrádza (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · th เขื่อน (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · enm dam (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ms bendungan (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · bn বাঁধ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · mk брана (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ckb بەربەست (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · nn dam (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · fa بَنْد (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ky бөгөт (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · am ግድብ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ms tebat (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · tg дарғот (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · it diga (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ms pengempang (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · mnc ᡩᠠᠯᠠᠨ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · tl tarundon (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ta அணை (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · pt açude (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · lv dambis (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · cy argae (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · cs přehrada (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · fa سَدّ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ka დამბა (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · el φράγμα (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · az sədd (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ru гать (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · hi पुश्ता (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · sh gȁt (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ca presa (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ja 堰堤 (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · tk bent (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · lv aizsprosts (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · tr set (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · gl presa (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · zh фибэ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · es bocal (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · crh bent (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · gl touta (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · yue 壩 /坝 (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · zh 壩 /坝 (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · sv damm (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · uz toʻgʻon (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · mt diga (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · sh бра́на (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · sl jez (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · eo akvobaraĵo (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · kmr sikur (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · sq pendë (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · gl encoro (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ms alahan (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · tg дамба (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · pt barragem (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · nv dáʼdeestłʼin (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · khb ᦚᦻ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ug دامبا (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · zh 大壩 /大坝 (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ti ግድብ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · mn боомт (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · id empang (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · sq digë (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · sh násip (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · qu hark'a (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · fi pato (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · es presa (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ar سد (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ko 언제 (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · he סֶכֶר (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ka კაშხალი (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ur بَنْد (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ms empang (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · nb dam (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ms bendung (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · io aquobarilo (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · mn далан (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · hu gát (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · az damba (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · egy d:n-i-t:V11-N23-Z1 (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · bo ཆུ་རག (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · yi דאַם (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ps بند (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ms empangan (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · kk дамба (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · lt damba (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ru на́сыпь (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · pl tama (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · km ទំនប់ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · id bendungan (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · bg бент (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · yue 大壩 /大坝 (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · shn ၽၢႆ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · hrx Damm (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · pdt Daum (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · pt represa (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · nb demning (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · cv пӗвӗ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · mi matatara (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · es azud (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · sk priehrada (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · te ఆనకట్ట (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · it argine (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · nv tó beʼekʼid (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · kk бөгет (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · za fai (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ur پُشْتَہ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · my ရေကာတာ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · tl saplad (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · pl zapora (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · es represa (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · tr baraj (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ms ampang (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · mnc ᡩᠠᠯᠠᠩᡤᠠ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · pcc waail (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · af dam (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · be плаці́на (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · uk да́мба (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ms tandup (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ar سَدّ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · yue 水壩 /水坝 (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · cs hráz (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ru плоти́на (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ru да́мба (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · lo ເຂື່ອນ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · sh brána (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · az bənd (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ga damba (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · nl dam (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · es azuda (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · mi pāwai (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · sh га̏т (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · tg оббанд (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ccp 𑄉𑄧𑄙 (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · kn ಕಟ್ಟೆ (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · fr barrage (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · sv dammbyggnad (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · kmr bendav (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · fa آببَنْد (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · izh plotina (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · be да́мба (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · tg сарбанд (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · gl tarula (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · sh на́сип (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · de Staudamm (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · lt užtvanka (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ps ډم (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · hi बाँध (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · ms pembendung (structure placed across a flowing body of water) · tl prinsa (structure placed across a flowing body of water)

wikidata: Q1630725

Source: en.wiktionary, “dam” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

dam en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdɛm/ (New-Zealand)
  • (US) audio
  • [ˈdeə̯m] ~ [ˈdɛə̯m] æ-raising
  • [ˈdæːm] without æ-raising
  • /ˈdæm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈdam/ (Northern-England, Scotland, Wales)
  • audio
  • [ˈdam] ~ [ˈdäm] (Northern-England, Scotland, Wales)
  • [ˈdɛm] (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈdam/ (British, Midlands, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈdæm] ~ [ˈdam] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈdæːm/ (Australia)
  • [ˈdam] (British, Midlands, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈdæm] without æ-raising
  • /ˈdæm/ (Canada, US)
  • [ˈdeːm] ~ [ˈdɛːm] æ-raising

Etymology

From Middle English dam, from Old English *damm, from Proto-West Germanic *damm, from Proto-Germanic *dammaz.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To block the flow of water.
    • Home I vvould go, / But that my Dores are hatefull to my eyes. / Fill'd and damm'd up vvith gaping Creditors, / VVatchfull as Fovvlers vvhen their Game vvill ſpring; […] 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d, or, A Plot Discover’d. A Tragedy. […], London: […] Jos[eph] Hindmarsh […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 4:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
damming Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dams Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
dammed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dammed Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

dam up · undam · redam

Translations (15)

bg заприщвам (block) · fi padota (block) · pt barrar (block) · de stauen (block) · de abdämmen (block) · pt represar (block) · mi puni (block) · es represar (block) · de absperren (block) · it imbrigliare (block) · es embalsar (block) · id membendung (block) · mi pāpuni (block) · cs přehradit (block) · am ገደበ (block)

Source: en.wiktionary, “dam” (verb), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

dam en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdɛm/ (New-Zealand)
  • (US) audio
  • [ˈdeə̯m] ~ [ˈdɛə̯m] æ-raising
  • [ˈdæːm] without æ-raising
  • /ˈdæm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈdam/ (Northern-England, Scotland, Wales)
  • audio
  • [ˈdam] ~ [ˈdäm] (Northern-England, Scotland, Wales)
  • [ˈdɛm] (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈdam/ (British, Midlands, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈdæm] ~ [ˈdam] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈdæːm/ (Australia)
  • [ˈdam] (British, Midlands, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈdæm] without æ-raising
  • /ˈdæm/ (Canada, US)
  • [ˈdeːm] ~ [ˈdɛːm] æ-raising

Etymology

Variant of dame. Doublet of domina and donna.

Meanings

  1. Female parent, mother, generally regarding breeding of animals.
    • she / Resolved that Juan should be quite a paragon, / And worthy of the noblest pedigree / (His sire was from Castile, his dam from Aragon)[…]. 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Part 1:
    • The dam runs lowing up and down, / Looking the way her harmless young one went. 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
    • More dear […] than younglings to their dam. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52:
    • Hunters assure us, that to chuse the best dog, and which they purpose to keepe from out a litter of other young whelps, there is no better meane than the damme herselfe[…]. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
    • The sky was cloudless—the moon rolled across the surface like a lamb searching for its dam. 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, page 112:
  2. A kind of crowned piece in the game of draughts.

Forms

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dams Number=Plur lexicographic

Coordinates

sire (male parent)

Translations (17)

mi karawa (female parent) · ja(female parent) · id induk (female parent) · mi tīaka (female parent) · bg ма́йка (female parent) · ja(female parent) · hu anyaállat (female parent) · la mātrix (female parent) · zh 母獸 /母兽 (female parent) · ja メス (female parent) · zh 母畜 (female parent) · ms induk betina (female parent) · mi kātua (female parent) · fi emä (female parent) · de Muttertier (female parent) · mi uwha (female parent) · mi uha (female parent)

Source: en.wiktionary, “dam” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

dam en · NOUN · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdɛm/ (New-Zealand)
  • (US) audio
  • [ˈdeə̯m] ~ [ˈdɛə̯m] æ-raising
  • [ˈdæːm] without æ-raising
  • /ˈdæm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈdam/ (Northern-England, Scotland, Wales)
  • audio
  • [ˈdam] ~ [ˈdäm] (Northern-England, Scotland, Wales)
  • [ˈdɛm] (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈdam/ (British, Midlands, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈdæm] ~ [ˈdam] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈdæːm/ (Australia)
  • [ˈdam] (British, Midlands, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈdæm] without æ-raising
  • /ˈdæm/ (Canada, US)
  • [ˈdeːm] ~ [ˈdɛːm] æ-raising

Etymology

From Hindi दाम (dām), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀫𑁆𑀫 (damma, “coin”), from Sanskrit द्रम्म (drammá), from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ). Doublet of drachm, drachma, and dram. Alternatively said to be possibly coined from the English phrase "I don't give a dam(n)," referring to its small worth.

Meanings

  1. (India, historical) An obsolete Indian copper coin, equal to a fortieth of a rupee.
    • […] A small Indian coin; whence comes the saying "I don't care a dam for you," that is I don't value you a farthing, and not as generally given, "I don't care a damn" or a "curse for you." [Possibly a folk etymology.] 1839, William Holloway, A General Dictionary of Provincialisms, Written with a View to Rescue from Oblivion the Fast Fading Relics of By-gone Days, Lewes, East Sussex: Sussex Press: Printed and published by Baxter and Son, →OCLC, page 42:
  2. (historical) A former coin of Nepal, 128 of which were worth one mohar.

Forms

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dams Number=Plur lexicographic
Source: en.wiktionary, “dam” (noun), dump 20260902, contributors via the page history. Text licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

dam en · ADJ · etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdɛm/ (New-Zealand)
  • (US) audio
  • [ˈdeə̯m] ~ [ˈdɛə̯m] æ-raising
  • [ˈdæːm] without æ-raising
  • /ˈdæm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈdam/ (Northern-England, Scotland, Wales)
  • audio
  • [ˈdam] ~ [ˈdäm] (Northern-England, Scotland, Wales)
  • [ˈdɛm] (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈdam/ (British, Midlands, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈdæm] ~ [ˈdam] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈdæːm/ (Australia)
  • [ˈdam] (British, Midlands, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈdæm] without æ-raising
  • /ˈdæm/ (Canada, US)
  • [ˈdeːm] ~ [ˈdɛːm] æ-raising

Etymology

Pronunciation spelling of damn.

Meanings

  1. (historical, not-comparable, pronunciation-spelling, slang) Damn.
    • Do not get too caught up in individual campism. The Most-High sent your spirits back on earth to fix yourselves, come together and wake up our people, so do your dam job and stop letting your fleshly desires control you. 2020, Jacie Rowe III, White Lies, Black Truth, The Lost Light, page 196:

Forms

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dam' alternative lexicographic

dam en · INTJ · etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • /ˈdɛm/ (New-Zealand)
  • (US) audio
  • [ˈdeə̯m] ~ [ˈdɛə̯m] æ-raising
  • [ˈdæːm] without æ-raising
  • /ˈdæm/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈdam/ (Northern-England, Scotland, Wales)
  • audio
  • [ˈdam] ~ [ˈdäm] (Northern-England, Scotland, Wales)
  • [ˈdɛm] (New-Zealand)
  • /ˈdam/ (British, Midlands, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈdæm] ~ [ˈdam] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈdæːm/ (Australia)
  • [ˈdam] (British, Midlands, Southern, Standard)
  • [ˈdæm] without æ-raising
  • /ˈdæm/ (Canada, US)
  • [ˈdeːm] ~ [ˈdɛːm] æ-raising

Etymology

Pronunciation spelling of damn.

Meanings

  1. (historical, pronunciation-spelling, slang) Damn.

Forms

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dam' alternative lexicographic