दाम
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]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
[edit]दाम • (dām) m (Urdu spelling دام)
- price, value, cost
- 2021 February 8, “मुंबई में महंगी हुई रसोई गैस, सीएनजी के दाम भी बढ़ें, जानें नए रेट”, 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]Inherited from Prakrit 𑀤𑀸𑀫 (dāma), from Sanskrit दामन (dāmana).[2]
Noun
[edit]दाम • (dām) m (Urdu spelling دام)
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 3
[edit]Borrowed from Classical Persian دام (dām). Doublet of दाम (dām).
Noun
[edit]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.
- dām-e-har-mauj mẽ hai halqā-e-sad-kām-e-nahaṅg,
- दाम-ए-हर-मौज में है हलक़ा-ए-सद-काम-ए-नहंग,
Declension
[edit]Declension of दाम (masc cons-stem)
Derived terms
[edit]- दाम में लाना (dām mẽ lānā)
- दामदारी (dāmdārī)
References
[edit]- ^ 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
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