dama

Compare Turkish dama, Northern Kurdish دامە (dame). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

dama (uncountable)

1. The game of Turkish draughts.

• dama gazelle
• dama wallaby

• A.A.M.D., Adam

dama f (plural dames)

1. (chess) queen

Cognate with Eastern Maninkakan dàma.

dama

1. number, quantity
2. limit

dama

1. only

Borrowed from French dame, from Latin domina. Doublet of dona.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈda.mə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [ˈda.ma]

dama f (plural dames)

1. lady (graceful, elegant or noble woman)
2. (chess) queen
3. (in the plural) checkers (US), draughts (UK)

Borrowed from Spanish damas.

• Hyphenation: da‧ma

dama

1. the game of checkers
2. (checkers) a king
3. a demijohn

dama

1. (checkers) to crown a king

dama f (plural damyow)

1. mother, dam

• mamm/mabm

• dama-wydn

• sira/syra

• IPA^(key): /da.ma/
• Homophones: damas, damât

dama

1. third-person singular past historic of damer

• Adam

Borrowed from French dame.

dama f (plural damas)

1. lady, dame, woman of high status
2. (chess) queen

   Synonym: raíña

From (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

dama

1. drum

• IPA^(key): /dáː.máː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [dáː.máː]

dāmā f (possessed form dāmar̃)

1. chance, opportunity, possibility
2. equal, something comparable
3. improvement

• Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 41.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaːma/
• Rhymes: -aːma

dama f (genitive singular dömu, nominative plural dömur)

1. lady (also used as a third person address)

   Hvað má bjóða dömunni?

   What may be offered the lady? (speaking to the lady herself)

• dömur mínar og herrar

• frú
• lafði

• Adam

Borrowed from Spanish damas.

• Hyphenation: da‧ma
• IPA^(key): /ˈdama/

dama

1. (board games) checkers (US); draughts (UK)

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.ma/
• Rhymes: -ama
• Hyphenation: dà‧ma

Borrowed from French dame. Doublet of donna.

dama f (plural dame)

1. lady
2. (board games, in the singular) draughts/checkers
3. king (in draughts/checkers)
4. draughtboard/checkerboard
5. queen (playing card)

• (lady): donna (archaic), lady, signora

• → Ottoman Turkish: دامه (dama)
  • Turkish: dama
  • → Armenian: տամա (tama)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dama

1. inflection of damare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Adam

dama

1. (Banawá) to hold securely

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

dama

1. Rōmaji transcription of だま
2. Rōmaji transcription of ダマ

Borrowed from Polish dama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdama/
• Syllabification: da‧ma

dama f

1. lady
2. weir
3. pavement

• “dama”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “tama”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎
• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “dama”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎

dāma f (genitive dāmae); first declension

1. Alternative form of damma (“fallow deer”)

First-declension noun.

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

• (damà) IPA^(key): [d̪ɐˈmɐ]
• (dãma) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪ä̌ːmɐ]

damà f (plural dãmos) stress pattern 2

1. lady[1]
2. (card games) queen

• (lady): ponia
• (queen): karalienė

• mada

From Spanish damas.

dama

1. checkers, draughts

• damadama (“checkered”)

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

• damen

dama m or f

1. definite feminine singular of dame

dama f (definite singular dama, indefinite plural damer or damor, definite plural damene or damone)

1. definite singular of dame
2. (pre-2012) alternative form of dame

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaṽa/

·dama

1. third-person singular present subjunctive conjunct of daimid

Borrowed from French dame, Old French dame, from Late Latin domna, shortened variant of Latin domina. Doublet of domina.

• IPA^(key): /ˈda.ma/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: da‧ma

dama f

1. lady

   Synonyms: białogłowa, facetka, kobiałka, kobieta, niewiasta

2. (card games) queen

   dama karo ― queen of diamonds

   dama kier ― queen of hearts

   dama pik ― queen of spades

   dama trefl ― queen of clubs

3. (chess, colloquial) queen (chess piece)

   Synonyms: hetman, królowa, królówka

• dama in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• dama in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French dame,[1] from Latin domina.[2] Doublet of dona.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmɐ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mɐ
• Hyphenation: da‧ma

dama f (plural damas)

1. lady
2. (chess) queen
3. (card games) queen

• IPA^(key): [ˈdama]

dama f

1. definite nominative/accusative singular of damă

• IPA^(key): /dǎːma/
• Hyphenation: da‧ma

dáma f (Cyrillic spelling да́ма)

1. lady
2. (chess, card games) queen

• IPA^(key): /dàːma/

dáma f

1. lady
2. (chess) queen
3. (card games) queen

Borrowed from French dame, from Latin domina. Doublet of dueña.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdama/ [ˈd̪a.ma]

• Audio (Colombia):

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• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: da‧ma

dama f (plural damas, masculine caballero, masculine plural caballeros)

1. lady, dame

   Synonyms: señora, ama

2. (Mexico) a female member of the court of honor at a quinceañera

   Coordinate term: chambelán

3. (chess) queen

   Synonym: reina

4. (checkers) king

   Synonym: reina

• “dama”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• amad

Borrowed from Portuguese damas.

• Audio (Kenya)

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dama (n class, no plural)

1. draughts, checkers

• drafti

Compare Malay jamah.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /daˈma/ [dɐˈma]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: da‧ma

damá (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜋ)

1. feeling; perception

   Synonyms: damdam, pakiramdam

2. opinion about something

   Synonyms: kuro, kuro-kuro, palagay

damá (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜋ)

1. felt; perceived

Borrowed from Spanish damas.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdama/ [ˈda.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: da‧ma

dama (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜋ)

1. checkers; draughts
2. (checkers) king

• perdegana

Borrowed from Spanish dama (“lady, dame”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈdama/ [ˈda.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: da‧ma

dama (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜋ)

1. maid of honor; lady-in-waiting

   Synonym: abay

• “dama”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From Proto-Oceanic *dramaʀ (“light, torch”), variant of *ramaʀ with irregular loss of *ʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *damaʀ, from Proto-Austronesian *damaʀ.

• IPA^(key): /dama/

dama

1. light

• Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), page 380
• Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪a.ma/

dama

1. forest

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

• IPA^(key): [dama]

dama

1. ocean, sea

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “dama”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “dama”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “dama”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “dama”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN