dam

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈdæm/
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• Received-Pronunciation: [ˈdæm] ~ [ˈdam]
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• British, Midlands, Southern, Standard: /ˈdam/
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• British, Midlands, Southern, Standard: [ˈdam]
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• Northern-England, Scotland, Wales: /ˈdam/
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• Northern-England, Scotland, Wales: [ˈdam] ~ [ˈdäm]
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• Canada, US: /ˈdæm/
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• [ˈdæm] without æ-raising
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• [ˈdeə̯m] ~ [ˈdɛə̯m] æ-raising
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• Australia: /ˈdæːm/
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• [ˈdæːm] without æ-raising
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• [ˈdeːm] ~ [ˈdɛːm] æ-raising
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• New-Zealand: /ˈdɛm/
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• New-Zealand: [ˈdɛm]
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• rhymes with -æm
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• homophone: damn
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• CMU ARPABET: D AE1 M Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Pronunciation spelling of damn.

From Middle English dam, from Old English *damm, from Proto-West Germanic *damm, from Proto-Germanic *dammaz.

Variant of dame. Doublet of domina and donna.

From Hindi दाम (dām), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀤𑀫𑁆𑀫 (damma, “coin”), from Sanskrit द्रम्म (drammá), from Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ). Doublet of drachm, drachma, and dram. Alternatively said to be possibly coined from the English phrase "I don't give a dam(n)," referring to its small worth.

216 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: dam — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Albanian: pendë — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Albanian: digë — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Southern Altai: плотина (plotina) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Amharic: ግድብ (gədb) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Arabic: سَدّ (sadd) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Arabic: سد (sadd) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Armenian: ամբարտակ (ambartak) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Armenian: պատնեշ (patneš) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Azerbaijani: bənd — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Azerbaijani: sədd — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Azerbaijani: damba — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Bashkir: быуа (bıwa) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Belarusian: плаці́на (placína) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Belarusian: да́мба (dámba) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Bengali: বাঁধ (bãdh) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Bouyei: waail — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Bulgarian: бент (bent) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Burmese: ရေကာတာ (rekata) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Catalan: presa — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Chakma: 𑄉𑄧𑄙 (gadhā) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Chinese Cantonese: 壩 /坝 (baa3) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Chinese Cantonese: 水壩 /水坝 (seoi2 baa3) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Chinese Cantonese: 大壩 /大坝 (daai6 baa3) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Chinese: бэ (be) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Chinese: фибэ (fibe) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Chinese: 水壩 /水坝 (chúi-pà) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Chinese Mandarin: 壩 /坝 (bà) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Chinese Mandarin: 水壩 /水坝 (shuǐbà) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Chinese Mandarin: 大壩 /大坝 (dàbà) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Chuvash: пӗвӗ (pĕvĕ) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Cornish: arge — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Crimean Tatar: bent — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Czech: hráz — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Czech: přehrada — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Danish: dæmning — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Dutch: dam — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Egyptian: d:n-i-t:V11-N23-Z1 (dnjt) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Erzya: каваз (kavaz) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Esperanto: akvobaraĵo — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Estonian: pais — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Farefare: mõgrɛ — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Finnish: pato — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• French: barrage — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Galician: presa — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Galician: encoro — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Galician: touta — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Galician: tarula — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Georgian: კაშხალი (ḳašxali) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Georgian: ჯებირი (ǯebiri) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Georgian: დამბა (damba) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• German: Talsperre — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• German: Damm — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• German: Staudamm — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Greek: φράγμα (frágma) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Ancient Greek: ἄνδηρον (ándēron) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Hebrew: סֶכֶר (sékher) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Hindi: बाँध (bāndh) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Hindi: पुश्ता (puśtā) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Hungarian: gát — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Hunsrik: Damm — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Icelandic: stífla — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Ido: aquobarilo — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Indonesian: bendungan — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Indonesian: empang — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Ingrian: plotina — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Irish: damba — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Italian: argine — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Italian: diga — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Japanese: ダム (damu) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Japanese: 堰堤 (entei) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Kannada: ಕಟ್ಟೆ (kaṭṭe) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Kazakh: бөгет (böget) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Kazakh: дамба (damba) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Khmer: ទំនប់ (tumnup) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Korean: 댐 (daem) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Korean: 언제 (eonje) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Central Kurdish: بەربەست (berbest) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Northern Kurdish: bendav — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Northern Kurdish: sikur — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Kyrgyz: бөгөт (bögöt) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Kyrgyz: дамба (damba) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Kyrgyz: плотина (plotina) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Lao: ຝາຍ (fāi) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Lao: ເຂື່ອນ (khư̄an) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Latvian: dambis — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Latvian: aizsprosts — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Lithuanian: užtvanka — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Lithuanian: damba — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Lü: ᦚᦻ (ḟaay) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Macedonian: брана (brana) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Macedonian: насип (nasip) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Malay: empang — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Malay: empangan — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Malay: pengempang — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Malay: ampang — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Malay: bendung — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Malay: bendungan — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Malay: pembendung — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Malay: tebat — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Malay: tambak — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Malay: tandup — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Malay: alahan — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Malayalam: അണ (aṇa) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Malayalam: അണക്കെട്ട് (aṇakkeṭṭŭ) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Malayalam: ചിറ (ciṟa) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Maltese: diga — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Manchu: ᡩᠠᠯᠠᠨ (dalan) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Manchu: ᡩᠠᠯᠠᠩᡤᠠ (dalangga) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Māori: matatara — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Māori: pāwai — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Middle English: dam — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Mongolian: далан (dalan) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Mongolian: боомт (boomt) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Navajo: dáʼdeestłʼin — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Navajo: tó beʼekʼid — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Norwegian Bokmål: demning — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Norwegian Bokmål: dam — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Norwegian Nynorsk: demning — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Norwegian Nynorsk: dam — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Pashto: ډم (ḍǝm) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Pashto: بند (band) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Dari: بَنْد (band) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Iranian Persian: سَدّ (sadd) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Iranian Persian: آببَنْد (âb-band) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Plautdietsch: Daum — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Polish: tama — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Polish: zapora — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Portuguese: barragem — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Portuguese: represa — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Portuguese: açude — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Quechua: hark'a — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Romanian: baraj — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Russian: плоти́на (plotína) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Russian: да́мба (dámba) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Russian: гать (gatʹ) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Russian: на́сыпь (násypʹ) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Serbo-Croatian: на́сип — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Serbo-Croatian: бра́на — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Serbo-Croatian: га̏т — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Serbo-Croatian: násip — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Serbo-Croatian: brána — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Serbo-Croatian: gȁt — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Shan: ၽၢႆ (phǎai) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Slovak: priehrada — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Slovak: hrádza — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Slovene: jez — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Spanish: presa — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Spanish: represa — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Spanish: azud — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Spanish: azuda — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Spanish: pesquera — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Spanish: bocal — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Swedish: damm — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Swedish: dammbyggnad — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Tagalog: tarundon — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Tagalog: saplad — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Tagalog: prinsa — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Tajik: сарбанд (sarband) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Tajik: дамба (damba) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Tajik: дарғот (darġot) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Tajik: оббанд (obband) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Tamil: அணை (aṇai) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Tatar: буа (buwa) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Telugu: ఆనకట్ట (ānakaṭṭa) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Thai: เขื่อน (kʉ̀ʉan) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Tibetan: ཆུ་རག (chu rag) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Tigrinya: ግድብ (gədb) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Turkish: baraj — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Turkish: set — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Turkmen: bent — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Turkmen: damba — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Ukrainian: гре́бля (hréblja) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Ukrainian: да́мба (dámba) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Urdu: بَنْد (band) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Urdu: پُشْتَہ (puśta) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Uyghur: دامبا (damba) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Uyghur: توغان (toghan) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Uzbek: toʻgʻon — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Uzbek: damba — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Vietnamese: đập — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Welsh: argae — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Yiddish: דאַם (dam) — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Zhuang: fai — structure placed across a flowing body of water
• Bulgarian: ма́йка (májka) — female parent
• Chinese Mandarin: 母畜 (mǔchù) — female parent
• Chinese Mandarin: 母獸 /母兽 (mǔshòu) — female parent
• Finnish: emä — female parent
• German: Muttertier — female parent
• Hungarian: anyaállat — female parent
• Indonesian: induk — female parent
• Japanese: メス (mesu) — female parent
• Japanese: 牝 (mesu) — female parent
• Japanese: 雌 (mesu) — female parent
• Latin: mātrix — female parent
• Malay: induk betina — female parent
• Māori: tīaka — female parent
• Māori: karawa — female parent
• Māori: uha — female parent
• Māori: uwha — female parent
• Māori: kātua — female parent
• Amharic: ገደበ (gädäbä) — block
• Bulgarian: заприщвам (zaprištvam) — block
• Czech: přehradit — block
• Finnish: padota — block
• German: stauen — block
• German: abdämmen — block
• German: absperren — block
• Indonesian: membendung — block
• Italian: imbrigliare — block
• Māori: pāpuni — block
• Māori: puni — block
• Portuguese: represar — block
• Portuguese: barrar — block
• Spanish: represar — block
• Spanish: embalsar — block