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damar¹

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From Malay damar.

Compare Middle English dambre (“a kind of resin”).

noun damars · dammar · dammara · dammer

  1. countable, uncountable A large tree of the order Coniferae, indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia, now genus Agathis.
  2. countable, uncountable A clear to yellow resin, obtained in Malaya from trees of the genera Shorea (family Dipterocarpaceae) and Symplocos (family Symplocaceae), used in varnishes and inks
  3. countable, uncountable Any of various hard resins, obtained especially from evergreen trees, notably of the genera Agathis (family Araucariaceae) and Hopea (family Dipterocarpaceae), native to southeast Asia, also used in varnishes and lacquers.

Damar²

proper noun Damars

  1. A male given name.

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noun resin obtained from trees of the genera Shorea and Symplocos

Portuguêsdâmar

noun any of various trees of the genus Agathis

Portuguêsdâmara

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@misc{damar_2026,
  title = {damar},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/damar},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}