damma

• ḍamma, Damma, dammah

Borrowed from Arabic ضَمَّة‎ (ḍamma, “a joining”), instance noun of the verb ضَمَّ‎ (ḍamma, “to join”). Refers to the joining of the lips together when making an /u/ sound.

damma (plural dammas or damma)

1. (linguistics) In the Arabic script, the vowel point for u, appearing as a small curl placed above a letter ( ـُ ) and designating a short u /u/. If the Arabic letter و‎ (wāw) immediately follows, it indicates a long ū /uː/.

• Arabic diacritics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fatha
• kasra
• sukun
• shadda
• tashkil

• madam

From Arabic ضَمَّة‎ (ḍamma).

• IPA^(key): /da.ma/

damma m (plural dammas)

1. damma

From Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to domesticate, tame”), the same root of Latin domō (“I tame”) and English tame.

Dama dama

damma f (genitive dammae); first declension

1. A fallow deer

First declension.

• damma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• damma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

damma

1. to dam

damma

1. in need of taming, in need of restraint

damma in Pali Text Society (1921–1925), Pali-English Dictionary, London: Chipstead. (licensed under CC-BY-NC)

damm +‎ -a

damma (present dammar, preterite dammade, supine dammat, imperative damma)

1. (transitive) to dust, to remove dust

   Angela dammade ivrigt symaskinen.

   Angela eagerly dusted the sewing machine.

   att damma av

   to dust off

   att damma ned

   to cover with dust

   att damma på

   to punch, to hit (someone in a fight; as if with a duster)

2. (intransitive) to raise dust, to be dusty

   och så for han sin väg, så att det dammade omkring vagnen.

   and so he went away, so the dust whirled about the wagon.

• damma av
• damma ned
• damma på
• dammborste
• dammhandduk
• dammig
• dammkorn
• dammrock
• dammvippa
• dammvirvel
• dammviska
• damning

• damma in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
• damma in Albert Montgomery, Svensk-engelsk ordbok (1914)