دامن
Baluchi
Noun
دامن • (dáman)
- skirt
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian دامن (dâman, “skirt”).
Noun
دامن • (daman)
- skirt, the part of a dress or robe that hangs below the waist
- Synonyms: اتك (etek), ذیل (zeyl)
- outskirts, suburb, the area surrounding a city or town
- (nautical) the lower part, bunt or clew of a sail
- (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
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)
- skirt
Related terms
- دامنه (dâmane)