दम्

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts

Alternative scripts

দম্ (Assamese script)
ᬤᬫ᭄ (Balinese script)
দম্ (Bengali script)
𑰟𑰦𑰿 (Bhaiksuki script)
𑀤𑀫𑁆 (Brahmi script)
ဒမ် (Burmese script)
દમ્ (Gujarati script)
ਦਮ੍ (Gurmukhi script)
𑌦𑌮𑍍 (Grantha script)
ꦢꦩ꧀ (Javanese script)
𑂠𑂧𑂹 (Kaithi script)
ದಮ್ (Kannada script)
ទម៑ (Khmer script)
ທມ຺ (Lao script)
ദമ് (Malayalam script)
ᡩᠠᠮ (Manchu script)
𑘟𑘦𑘿 (Modi script)
ᢑᠠᠮ (Mongolian script)
𑦿𑧆𑧠 (Nandinagari script)
𑐡𑐩𑑂 (Newa script)
ଦମ୍ (Odia script)
ꢣꢪ꣄ (Saurashtra script)
𑆢𑆩𑇀 (Sharada script)
𑖟𑖦𑖿 (Siddham script)
දම් (Sinhalese script)
𑩭𑩴 𑪙 (Soyombo script)
𑚛𑚢𑚶 (Takri script)
த³ம் (Tamil script)
దమ్ (Telugu script)
ทมฺ (Thai script)
ད་མ྄ (Tibetan script)
𑒠𑒧𑓂 (Tirhuta script)
𑨛𑨢𑨴 (Zanabazar Square script)

Pronunciation

(Vedic) IPA^(key): /dɐ́m/
(Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /d̪ɐm/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-Aryan *dám, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dám from Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (“house”). Cognate with Russian дом (dom), Ancient Greek δῶ (dô), Latin domus, English timber.

Noun

दम् • (dám) stem, n

a house
- c. 1500 BCE – 1000 BCE, Ṛgveda 10.46.7:
  अ॒स्याजरा॑सो द॒माम्अ॒रित्रा॑ अ॒र्चद्धू॑मासो अ॒ग्नयः॑ पाव॒काः ।
  asyā́járāso damā́marítrā arcáddhūmāso agnáyaḥ pāvakā́ḥ.
  His are the fires, eternal, purifying, that make the houses move, whose smoke is shining

Declension

Neuter root-stem declension of दम्
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	दन् (dán)	द॒मी (damī́)	दमि॑ (dámi)
accusative	दन् (dán)	द॒मी (damī́)	दमि॑ (dámi)
instrumental	द॒मा (damā́)	द॒न्भ्याम् (danbhyā́m)	द॒न्भिः (danbhíḥ)
dative	द॒मे (damé)	द॒न्भ्याम् (danbhyā́m)	द॒न्भ्यः (danbhyáḥ)
ablative	द॒मः (damáḥ)	द॒न्भ्याम् (danbhyā́m)	द॒न्भ्यः (danbhyáḥ)
genitive	द॒मः (damáḥ)	द॒मोः (damóḥ)	द॒माम् (damā́m)
locative	द॒मि (damí)	द॒मोः (damóḥ)	द॒न्सु (dansú)
vocative	दन् (dán)	दमी॑ (dámī)	दमि॑ (dámi)

Derived terms

दम (dáma)
दम्य (dámya)

References

Monier Williams (1899), “2.dám”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 469, column 2.
Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992), “dám-”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[1] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 697
Lubotsky, Alexander (2011), “dám-”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, page 131

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *damH-, Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to tame, domesticate”).

Root

दम् • (dam)

to tame, to domesticate

Derived terms

Primary verbal forms

दाम्य॑ति (dā́myati, present)
द॒मा॒यति॑ (damāyáti, present)
अद॑मीत् (ádamīt, aorist)

Secondary forms

दम्यते (damyate, passive)
द॒मय॑ति (damáyati, causative)

Non-finite forms

दा॒न्त (dāntá, past participle)
दमित्वा (damitvā, gerund)
दम्य (damya, gerundive)

Derived nominal forms

दम (dáma, “taming, subduing”)
दमक (damaka)
दमन (damana, “taming, subduing”)
दमयितृ (damayitṛ)
दमितृ (damitṛ́, “tamer”)
दमिन् (damin)
दान्ति (dānti, “self-restraint, patience”)

Sanskrit terms belonging to the root दम् (0 c, 3 e)

Terms derived from the Sanskrit root दम् (2 c, 0 e)

References

Monier Williams (1899), “दम् 1.dam”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 469, column 2.
William Dwight Whitney (1885), The Roots, Verb-forms, and Primary Derivatives of the Sanskrit Language, Leipzig: Breitkopf and Härtel, page 70

Mayrhofer, Manfred (1992), “DAM^I”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen [Etymological Dictionary of Old Indo-Aryan]‎^[2] (in German), volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter Universitätsverlag, page 698
Lubotsky, Alexander (2011), “damⁱ”, in The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon (in progress) (Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Project), Leiden University, page 134
Hellwig, Oliver (2010–2026), “dam”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.