دماغ

Blend of دَم (dam, “blood”) +‎ مُخّ (muḵḵ, “brain”), compare Arabic دَمْع (damʕ, “tears”) of the same relation with عَيْن (ʕayn, “eye”). While دَمْع (damʕ, “tears”) traces its formation back to Proto-Semitic, the present term is only paralleled by Ethiopian Semitic, Ge'ez ድማሕ (dəmaḥ), ድማኅ (dəmaḫ), ድማህ (dəmah, “head; crown of the head; skull; summit”), Amharic ድማኅ (dəmaḫ, “top of the head”), Argobba ድማኅ (“head”), Gafat dəmʷä (“head”), Silt'e ዱም (dum), Wolane ዱሚ (dumi, “head; hair of head”), Tigre ደምቀት (dämḳät, “crown of the head”), apparently back-formed from later plurals ድማቅ (dəmaḳ), ድመቅ (dəmäḳ), with presumable Gurage borrowings Awngi ዱሚ (dūmī, “top”), Oromo dumi (“head”). While borrowing of at least a part of the terms is manifest, the preservation of guttural fricatives unassimilated in voicedness to the second radical against Arabic points to either inheritance from Proto-West Semitic or borrowing from Old South Arabian whose names of body parts use to be poorly attested.

• IPA^(key): /di.maːɣ/

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دِمَاغ • (dimāḡ) m (plural أَدْمِغَة (ʔadmiḡa) or دُمُغ (dumuḡ)) (countable)

1. (anatomy) brain (control center of the central nervous system)

   Hypernyms: مُخّ (muḵḵ, “the cerebrum”), مُخَّيْخ (muḵḵayḵ, “the cerebrum”)

• Corriente, Federico, Pereira, Christophe, Vicente, Angeles, editors (2017), Dictionnaire du faisceau dialectal arabe andalou. Perspectives phraséologiques et étymologiques (in French), Berlin: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 478
• Leslau, Wolf (1991), Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 134
• Militarev, Alexander; Kogan, Leonid (2000), “*dimāγ-”, in Semitic Etymological Dictionary, volumes I: Anatomy of Man and Animals, Münster: Ugarit-Verlag, →ISBN, page 50 No. 52
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “دماغ”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

Borrowed from Classical Persian دِمَاغ (dimāġ), borrowed from Arabic دِمَاغ (dimāḡ), a blend of دَم (dam) + مُخّ (muḵḵ).

دماغ (dimāğ) (plural دماغلار)

1. brain

• Uyghur: دىماغ (dimagh)
• Uzbek: dimogʻ (“pharynx”)

• András J. E. Bodrogligeti, A Grammar of Chagatay

دماغ • (dimāḡ) f

1. (countable) the upper front part of the body of an animal, the head

   ضربت الصرصار على دماغ كسّمه! ― I bashed the cockroach on its fucking head!

   شغّلي دماغك معايا بقا! ― Come on! Use your head, girl!

   Synonym: راس (rās)

   1. (of humans) the crown of the head; the scalp

      رحتله علشان يحلقلك دماغك. ― I/you went to him to get your head shaved.

2. (uncountable) mind; intelligence; reason

   عاملّي فيها راجل دماغه متفتّحه!

   And you are/he is acting and pretending to be such an open-minded man!

   دا طلع عنده دماغ فعلا. ― It seems that he really has a head after all.

   كبّر دماغك.

   Never mind it./Ignore it./Don't worry about it.

   (literally, “Enlarge/expand your head.”)

   Synonym: عقل (ʕaʔl)

3. (countable, uncommon) the brain

   Synonym: مخ (muḵḵ)

4. (uncountable, informal) the state or feeling of being under the effect of a drug; euphoria, excitement, or stupor from narcosis; being, looking, sounding, or feeling high or stoned

   دا شكله عامل دماغ. ― He looks high.

Borrowed from Arabic دِمَاغ (dimāḡ), a blend of دَم (dam) + مُخّ (muḵḵ).

دماغ • (dimağ)

1. brain, the organ which controls the central nervous system

   Synonyms: بینی (beyni), مخ (muh), مغز (mağz)

2. encephalon the area of central nervous system enclosed within the skull
3. (by extension) mind, sense, understanding, consciousness

• Turkish: (archaic) dimağ
• → Crimean Tatar: dimağ

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “dimağ”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1226
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دماغ”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 581
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Cerebrum”, 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^[3], Vienna, column 170
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “دماغ”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 2135
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دماغ”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 914

Borrowed from Arabic دِمَاغ (dimāḡ, “brain”).

دماغ • (dimāġ / damâġ) (Tajik spelling димоғ)

1. (Iran, otherwise uncommon) nose

   Synonyms: بینی (bīnī / bini), پوز (pōz / puz)

3. (dated) brain, conceit

   Synonyms: مغز (maġz), ذهن (zihn / zehn)

4. (Classical Persian, figurative)
   1. arrogance, vanity, pride
   2. strong inclination
   3. disposition, condition, mood

      Synonym: حال (hāl / hâl)

• While the standard pronunciation in Iran is damâġ, it may be pronounced as demâġ if referring to the dated sense 2.

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “دماغ”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “دماغ”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Vullers, Johann August (1855), “دماغ”, in Lexicon Persico-Latinum etymologicum cum linguis maxime cognatis Sanscrita et Zendica et Pehlevica comparatum, e lexicis persice scriptis Borhâni Qâtiu, Haft Qulzum et Bahâri agam et persico-turcico Farhangi-Shuûrî confectum, adhibitis etiam Castelli, Meninski, Richardson et aliorum operibus et auctoritate scriptorum Persicorum adauctum‎^[6] (in Latin), volume I, Gießen: J. Ricker, page 901

From Arabic دِمَاغ (dimāḡ).

• IPA^(key): /dmaːɣ/, [dmæːɣ]

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دماغ • (dmāḡ) f (plural أدمغة (ʾadmiḡa))

1. brain

   Synonym: مخ (muḵḵ)

From Arabic دِمَاغ (dimāḡ).

دماغ (domâğ)

1. (Masarm, Deh Sarv, Kuzarg) nose

Borrowed from Classical Persian دِمَاغ (dimāġ), borrowed from Arabic دِمَاغ (dimāḡ), a blend of دَم (dam) + مُخّ (muḵḵ).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɪ.mɑːɣ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːɣ
• Hyphenation: دِ‧ماغ

دِماغ • (dimāġ) m (Hindi spelling दिमाग़)

1. (anatomy) brain, cerebrum

   Synonyms: بھیجا (bhejā), مَغْز (maġz)

2. brain (intellect), mind

   Synonym: ذَہْن (zahn)

3. conceit, pride

   Synonyms: گُھمَنْڈ (ghumanḍ), غُرُور (ġurūr)

• “دماغ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “دماغ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “دماغ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “دماغ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879), “دماغ”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834), “دماغ”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC