دامن

دامن

Baluchi

Noun

دامن • (dáman)

1. skirt

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian دامن‎ (dâman, “skirt”).

Noun

دامن • (daman)

1. skirt, the part of a dress or robe that hangs below the waist

   Synonyms: اتك‎ (etek), ذیل‎ (zeyl)

2. outskirts, suburb, the area surrounding a city or town
3. (nautical) the lower part, bunt or clew of a sail
4. (calligraphy) the tail of a letter of the alphabet

Derived terms

• دامنبوسی‎ (damanbusi, “the act of kissing another's skirt”)
• دامنی‎ (damani, “skirtful”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: daman

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “daman3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1091
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “دامن”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 563
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Lacinia”, 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, Vienna, column 902
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “دامن”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 2010
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “دامن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 884

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Persian

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /dɑːman/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /dɑːman/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /dɒːmæn/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /dɔman/

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Noun

دامن • (dâman)

1. skirt

Related terms

• دامنه‎ (dâmane)