damma

• ḍamma, Damma, dammah

Borrowed from Arabic ضَمَّة (ḍamma, “a joining”), instance noun of the verb ضَمَّ (ḍamma, “to join”). Refers to the joining of the lips together when making an /u/ sound.

damma (plural dammas or damma)

1. (linguistics) In the Arabic script, the vowel point for u, appearing as a small curl placed above a letter ( ـُ ) and designating a short u /u/. If the Arabic letter و (wāw) immediately follows, it indicates a long ū /uː/.
2. In Iranian Persian ـُ represents the vowel /o/. If the letter ـو immediately follows it represents the diphthong /ow/. This usage differs from other Arabic script languages and from classical Persian, in which the diphthong /ow/ did not occur.

• Arabic diacritics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fatha
• kasra
• sukun
• shadda
• tashkil

• Madam, madam

Borrowed from Arabic ضَمَّة (ḍamma).

• IPA^(key): /da.ma/

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damma m (plural dammas)

1. damma

• dama

From Latin damma, dāma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdam.ma/
• Rhymes: -amma
• Hyphenation: dàm‧ma

damma f (plural damme)

1. (archaic, literary) (male or female) fallow deer

   Synonym: daino

• damma in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• dāma

From Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to domesticate, tame”).

Related to domō (“to tame”) and cognate with English tame.

damma f or m (genitive dammae); first declension

1. A fallow deer
   • 70 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Eclogues 8.26–28:

     Mopso Nisa datur! Quid non speremus amantes?
     Iungentur iam gryphes equis, aevoque sequenti
     Cum canibus timidi venient ad pocula dammae.

     Nosa has been given to Mopsus! What, should lovers even hope? Gryphons are now to the cart yoked together with horses, and, new times comming, bashful fallow deer will with dogs now quench its thirst.

   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.645–648:

     […] ,
     cumque metu rapitur, tunica velata recincta
     currit, ut auditis territa damma lupis,
     corniger hanc tumidis rapuisse Numicius undis
     creditur et stagnis occuluisse suis.

     […] , as she was taken by fear and in her loose shirt fled, like the fallow deer startled by the howling of wolves, they say horned Numicius had her stolen to the rising waves and in his waters hidden.

First-declension noun.

• “damma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “damma”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Borrowed from Sicilian dama and/or Italian dama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdam.ma/

damma f (plural dammi or damem)

1. die (polyhedron used in games of chance)

damma

1. to dam

damma

1. honey

• Gamtaa, Xilaahun (2004), Galmee Afaan Oromo fi Afaan Ingilizii Barsiisuu - Comprehensive Oromo-English-Dictionary (COED), New York, USA: Karrayyuu Publishing, →ISBN, page 212

damma

1. gerundive of dameti (“to tame”)
2. in need of taming, in need of restraint

Pali Text Society (1921–1925), “damma”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

damm +‎ -a

damma (present dammar, preterite dammade, supine dammat, imperative damma)

1. (transitive) to dust, to remove dust

   Angela dammade ivrigt symaskinen.

   Angela eagerly dusted the sewing machine.

   att damma av

   to dust off

   att damma ned

   to cover with dust

   att damma på

   to punch, to hit (someone in a fight; as if with a duster)

2. (intransitive) to raise dust, to be dusty

   och så for han sin väg, så att det dammade omkring vagnen.

   and so he went away, so the dust whirled about the wagon.

damma (present dammar, preterite dammade, supine dammat, imperative damma)

1. (intransitive, slang) to eat

   Synonym: käka

• damma in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• damma in Albert Montgomery, Svensk-engelsk ordbok (1914)