daim

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Arabic دَائِم (dāʔim).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈdɑim]
  • Hyphenation: da‧im
  • Audio(file)

Adverb

daim

  1. constantly, all the time
    Synonyms: daima, həmişə, sürəkli

Further reading
  • “daim” in Obastan.com.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin dāmus, from Latin damma (“fallow deer, buck, doe”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dɛ̃/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛ̃
  • Homophone: daims

Noun

daim m (plural daims, feminine daine)

  1. fallow deer
  2. (in general) deer
  3. buck
  4. buckskin, doeskin; suede

Further reading

Old Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /daṽʲ/

Etymology 1

Inflected forms of dam (“bull”).

Alternative forms

Noun

daim

  1. inflection of dam:
    1. vocative/genitive singular
    2. nominative plural

Etymology 2

Inflected forms of daimid (“to suffer, permit”)

Verb

·daim

  1. third-person singular present indicative conjunct of daimid

daim

  1. second-person singular imperative of daimid

Mutation
Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
daim daim
pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/		 ndaim
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

White Hmong

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dai̯˩̰/

Classifier

daim

  1. used for objects that are flat, such as sheets and pages

References
  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 31.
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