دم
العربية
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دم¹
- /dam.ma/
verb دَمَّ · damma · يَدُمُّ · دَمّ · دَامّ
- to coat, to smear
- to paint, to daub, to dye, to tint
دم²
- /damm/
noun دَمّ · damm · الدَّمّ · دَمٌّ
- verbal noun of دَمَّ (damma) (form I)
- ointment, salve, unguent, liniment
- paint
- pigment, dye
دم³
- /dam/
Where it comes from
Inherited from Proto-Semitic *dam-, from Proto-Afroasiatic *dam-.
noun دَم · dam · دَمَان · دَمَيَان · دَمَوَان · دِمَاء
- blood
دم⁴
- /dimm/
Where it comes from
Suggested by Hommel as inherited from a Proto-Semitic *dimm- (“wild cat”), but presumably borrowed from Ge'ez ድመት (dəmmat), because this is a Lockwort rare in literary Arabic and appears in the dialects only in northwest Yemen, whereas it overspreads all Ethiopian Semitic as the word for the cat; the compared Akkadian 𒁺𒈠𒈬 (du-ma-mu /dumāmu, tumāmu/, “leopard”) is considered probably a foreign borrowing.
noun دِمّ · dimm · دِمَم · دِمَّة · الدِّمّ
- cat; wild cat
In English
- blood vital liquid flowing in human and animal bodies
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