दाम

See also: दम, द्म, and दुम

Hindi

FWOTD – 6 March 2021

Pronunciation

(Delhi) IPA^(key): /d̪ɑːm/, [d̪ä̃ːm]
Rhymes: -ɑːm

Etymology 1

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀫𑁆𑀫 (damma, “coin”), from Sanskrit द्रम्म (drammá),^[1] borrowed from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ). Doublet of दमड़ा (damṛā) and दिरम (diram).

Noun

दाम • (dām) m (Urdu spelling دام)

price, value, cost
Synonyms: मूल्य (mūlya), क़ीमत (qīmat)

टीवी ऊँचे या सस्ते दामों पर ख़रीदो, फ़र्क़ नहीं पड़ता।
ṭīvī ū̃ce yā saste dāmõ par xarīdo, farq nahī̃ paṛtā.
Buy the TV at a high or cheap price, it doesn't matter.
- 2021 February 8, “मुंबई में महंगी हुई रसोई गैस, सीएनजी के दाम भी बढ़ें, जानें नए रेट [mumbaī mẽ mahaṅgī huī rasoī gais, sīenjī ke dām bhī baṛhẽ, jānẽ nae reṭ]”, in Zee Business‎^[1]:
  महानगर गैस (Mahanagar Gas) कंपनी ने कहा है कि उसने कोविड-19 महामारी के दौरान परिचालन, कर्मचारी और स्थाई खर्चों में इजाफे की भरपायी के लिए गैस के दाम बढ़ाए हैं.
  mahāngar gais (Mahanagar Gas) kampnī ne kahā hai ki usne koviḍ-19 mahāmārī ke daurān paricālan, karmacārī aur sthāī kharcõ mẽ ijāphe kī bharpāyī ke lie gais ke dām baṛhāe ha͠i.
  Mahanagar Gas Company said that to pay off the increase in operating costs, employee pay, and other fixed payments during the COVID-19 pandemic, it has increased the cost of gas.
(in the plural) money, funds
(historical) dam (obsolete Indian coin equaling one fortieth of a rupee, or during a different reign, one twenty-fifth of a paisa)

Derived terms

चाम के दाम चलाना (cām ke dām calānā)
दाम उठना (dām uṭhnā)
दाम करना (dām karnā)
दाम खड़ा करना (dām khaṛā karnā)
दाम देना (dām denā)
दाम भर (dām bhar)
दाम भरना (dām bharnā)
दाम-दाम (dām-dām)

Descendants

→ Classical Persian: دام (dām)
→ English: dam
→ Sindhi: دامُ (dāmu)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀤𑀸𑀫 (dāma), from Sanskrit दामन (dāmana).^[2]

Noun

दाम • (dām) m (Urdu spelling دام)

rope, string, cord
(Braj Bhasha, Awadhi) garland

Related terms

दामन (dāman)
दामनी (dāmnī)
दामसिंह (dāmsĩh)
दामोदर (dāmodar)

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Classical Persian (dām). Doublet of दाम (dām).

Noun

दाम • (dām) m (Urdu spelling دام)

snare, trap
- 1797 – 1869, Ghalib :
  दाम-ए-हर-मौज में है हलक़ा-ए-सद-काम-ए-नहंग,
  देखें क्या गुज़रे है क़तरे पे गुहर होते तक
  dām-e-har-mauj mẽ hai halqā-e-sad-kām-e-nahaṅg,
  dekhẽ kyā guzre hai qatre pe guhar hote tak
  In snares of every wave there is a loop of monsters of hundred engagements,
  it is to see what befalls the drop in becoming a pearl.

Declension

Declension of दाम (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	दाम dām	दाम dām
oblique	दाम dām	दामों dāmõ
vocative	दाम dām	दामो dāmo

Derived terms

दाम में लाना (dām mẽ lānā)
दामदारी (dāmdārī)

References

^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dramma”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dā́man”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Platts, John T. (1884) “दाम”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 460
McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “दाम”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 491
Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “दाम”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha

[1] Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dramma”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

[2] Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dā́man”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

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